Thursday, Feb. 28, 1:00pm – 8:00pm and
Friday, March 1, 10:00 am — 6pm
Full conference details here:
Many of the most pressing social and ecological issues, from
climate change to turbulence in financial markets, grassroots protests
to antibiotic resistance, are essentially case studies in complexity.
So, too, are many of the most exciting technological innovations and
fields of theoretical inquiry, from CGI animation to Wikipedia, systems
theory to "object oriented ontology," network analysis to emergence.
This symposium will ask how the challenges of representing complex
phenomena—whether in language, film, computer modeling, or other
media—affect our understanding of it. Furthermore, how does the question
of representation provide a register for common inquiry across
methodological and disciplinary grounds?
In posing such questions, this symposium will highlight the breadth
of interest in the intersections among literature, language, and
science within the UMD English department, serving as an exploratory
model from which to develop future initiatives connecting the sciences
and the humanities. We hope that everyone who has an interest in
fostering such a dialogue will attend.
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