{"id":1914,"date":"2016-02-26T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www4.uma.pt\/cierl\/?page_id=1914"},"modified":"2017-05-21T13:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T13:57:38","slug":"iii-insula-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cierl.uma.pt\/?page_id=1914","title":{"rendered":"III INSULA – Call for papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Call for Papers<\/strong><\/h1>\n

III \u00a0INSULA International Colloquium <\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Beyond Nature\/Artifice<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Funchal | UMa-CIERL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

8 to 12 November 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Submission deadline by 30th May 2017<\/del>\u00a0\u00a030th June 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

there is no singular \u2018nature\u2019 as such, only a diversity of contested natures;<\/h5>\n
and that each\u00a0such nature is constituted through a variety of socio-cultural<\/h5>\n
processes from which such\u00a0natures cannot be plausibly separated.<\/h5>\n
\u00a0 Macnaghten,\u00a0 P. and Urry, J. (1998), Contested natures<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

In \u201cIdeas of Nature,\u201d Raymond Williams in 1980 emphasizes two issues that we call upon for the III INSULA International Colloquium- Beyond Nature\/Artifice<\/strong><\/span>: (1) the need to think the \u201cnatural\u201d<\/em> not just as a set of physical phenomena that exist in the world, but also as a plural concept, subject to historical and socio-cultural modelling with effective implications on how such a world is constructed; and (2) the need to rethink the human and the anthropological as parts of what is meant by Nature.<\/p>\n

In this same line of thought that rejects a dogmatic character to the concept of \u201cNature\u201d, Bruno Latour (1999) proposes the replacement of a singular \u201cNature\u201d by plural Natures. This positioning therefore presupposes the existence of a denser, more elastic and articulated relationship between all the elements that constitute the world. A relationship that also integrates both the human or that which is (re)constructed by human, whether in the material, or in virtual or imaginary form.<\/p>\n

If such issues gained relevance in the last decades of the 20th century, already marked by the dynamics of the contingency, of the transgressive and globalisation, as well as by the values of complex subjectivity, the simultaneous juxtaposition of the near with the distant or even of the empirical with the virtual, the first decades of the 21st century were to make them even more urgent, given the emergence or dissemination of phenomena such as cloning, transgenic industry, global warming, suspicions of the anthropocene or even the democratization of the access to technology.<\/p>\n

Focusing our attention on island spaces, representations, narratives and discourses, the III INSULA International Colloquium. Beyond Nature & Artifice<\/strong><\/span> presents itself as a place of reflection where it will attempt discussions on the concept of Nature(s) in contemporaneity, now understood as part of a dialectic in which what conventionally is seen as \u201cnatural\u201d articulates to what is conventionally understood as \u201cartificial\u201d, and\/or cultural. As a result of the encounter, the contamination, the amalgam and \/ or hybridization of these differences, a different (concept of) Nature emerges, one that is more complex and expanded than the sum of the two traditional oppositions.<\/p>\n

In this encounter between the real and the virtual, fiction, simulation and simulacra, where islands are both physical entities, conceptual devices and multi-dimensional artefacts that project us towards an expanded reality and an expanded concept of Nature (of\/in islands):<\/p>\n