CALL for ABSTRACTS (Ph.D. STUDENTS ONLY): Conference Grant INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE " SUBJECTIVITY AND DIGITAL CULTURE " (original) (raw)

Within the context of the international conference " Subjectivity and Digital Culture " , which will take place at the Technical University Dresden (Germany) from 5 to 7 September 2018, the organising committee has scheduled a panel of Ph.D. students, who will have the opportunity to present their work and research, and to discuss it with established scholars in their field. The conference aims to explore the theme of the relations between subjectivity and digital culture from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, the underlying question addressed during the three study days will concern the feedback of digital cultural systems on (conscious and unconscious) techniques of subjectivization, which is to say of self-perception, self-knowledge and self-transformation, on the part of human subjects. The conference is organized by the Chair of Technikphilosophie (Philosophy of Technology) of TU Dresden, with the aim of bringing together the leading international scholars in the field to discuss a highly topical issue. It will foster an interdisciplinary reflection on the subject that will bring into focus its different and controversial aspects, offering an overview of the state of the art and some suggestions for future research. The guiding thread of the conference will be the methodologies and problems inherent to the philosophy of technology, the organizers' area of expertise, with an eye to phenomenological and post-phenomenological repercussions. The aim, therefore, is not just to hold an interdisciplinary conference on a technology-related topic, but to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy and those disciplines that may be seen to play a complementary role in contributing to a full critical understanding of the relation between subjectivity and digital culture. The organising committee is inviting Ph.D. students within Philosophy, STS, IT, Sociology, Anthropology, ICT, Cultural and Media Studies, and other fields related to the conference topic, to submit an abstract (max. 300 words) for the panel in question by 20 July 2018. Abstracts focusing on the following topics will be particularly welcome:-the issue of privacy and digital rights, and their impact on a new definition of digital juridical subjects;-digital politics, politics of the digital, and digital and E-democracy;-the ethics of digital design and related problems;-digital storytelling and digital narratives of subjectivity. However, proposals somewhat diverging from the above-listed topics will also be taken into consideration. By 31 July 2018, the organising committee will select two abstracts out of all those submitted, on the basis of which the candidates will prepare a paper to be held as part of the panel. The candidates will have twenty minutes to present their paper, followed by a twenty-minute discussion with the audience. The deadline for the submission of the paper will be communicated at a later stage.