Message posted on 07/06/2019
CFP - Figurations: Persons In/Out of Data Conference
*CFP - Figurations: Persons In/Out of Data Conference* <br> <br> <br>*16-17 December, 2019 * <br> <br>*Goldsmiths, University of London* <br> <br> <br> <br>*Abstract deadline: **July 1st, 2019*. *Submit here <br>.* <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>*Keynotes*: <br> <br>Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University <br> <br>Professor Jane Elliot, University of Exeter <br> <br>Professor John Frow, The University of Sydney <br> <br>Professor Susanne Kuechler, University College London <br> <br>Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, The University of Sheffield <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>We’re drowning in an ocean of data, or so the saying goes. Data’s <br>“big”: <br>there’s not only lots of it, but its volume has allowed for the development <br>of new, large-scale processing techniques. Our relationship with <br>governments, medical organisations, technology companies, the education <br>sector, and so on are increasingly informed by the data we overtly or <br>inadvertently provide when we use particular services. The proverbial data <br>deluge is large-scale—but it’s also personal. <br> <br> <br> <br>Data increasingly characterises what it means to be a person in the <br>present. Data promises to personalise services to better meet our <br>individual needs. Data is often construed as a threat to our person(s). Not <br>every person predicated by data is predicted the same. The intersection <br>between data and person isn’t fixed: it has to be figured. <br> <br> <br> <br>The aim of this conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary group <br>of researchers to explore how the person—or persons, plural—are figured <br>in/out of data. The figuration of a person might encompass any or all of <br>processes of representation, calculation, analogisation, prediction, and <br>conceptualisation. It cuts across multiple scales, epistemological modes, <br>and disciplinary areas of enquiry. It tackles problems that cross into <br>disparate disciplines. Our proposition is that the conceptual language of <br>‘the figure’ and its variations—figuration, figuring, to figure, and so <br>on—can help us to apprehend what the person is and how it is processed in <br>the present. <br> <br> <br> <br>We invite proposals for *20-minute presentations *that take up or respond <br>to the question of how the person is figured in/out of data. We are <br>interested in presentations that address the conceptual, methodological, <br>analytical and/or empirical challenge of figuring the person in the <br>present. Conversely, we are also interested in papers that take up the <br>concept of the figure—broadly construed—as an heuristic for producing <br>knowledge about the constitution of person(s) in the present. <br> <br> <br> <br>Our proposition is deliberately interdisciplinary. We encourage proposals <br>from researchers working in disciplines for whom the figure is central. <br>These might include, but are not limited to: the social sciences, art <br>history, media studies, the medical humanities, literary studies, <br>philosophy, science and technology studies, urban studies, or geography. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>The themes that papers might address could include: <br> <br>- The figuration of person or persons in/out of data; <br> <br>- Techniques of personalisation and the figuration of the person or <br>persons; <br> <br>- Approaches that address the interrelation of visual, numerical, <br>statistical, metaphorical, and/or philosophical modes of figuring the <br>person or persons in the present; <br> <br>- Conceptual languages for apprehending persons in relation to <br>data—e.g. the subject, identity, user, data double, individual, dividual, <br>etc.; <br> <br>- The relationship between collective categories and/or category <br>production—like persons, population, distributed reproduction, homophily, <br>etc.—and techniques of figuration; <br> <br>- Figure as a concept for thinking gender in, e.g., science and <br>technology studies; <br> <br>- The art-historical/psychological/media-theoretical concept of <br>“figure/ground” and persons/data; <br> <br>- The relationship between visual and numerical modes of figuring and <br>the constitution of persons; <br> <br>- Literary/linguistic uses of figuration in e.g. metaphor, analogy, <br>simile, the icon, etc. in relation to the person or persons and data; <br> <br>- Figuration as a means of thinking the relationship between <br>image/text/number or media and code; <br> <br>- Related concepts—like the diagram or pattern—as complements to or <br>substitutes for the figure; <br> <br>- Conceptualising figuration in relation to resemblance, similarity, <br>seriality, difference, etc. <br> <br> <br> <br>Please submit abstracts of *300 words*, including your institutional <br>affiliation(s) and a short biography (a line or two is fine) by following <br>this link and filling out the online form: <br>https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/figurations/figurations/. <br>The CFP can also be found here <br>. The deadline for <br>abstract submissions is *July 1st, 2019*. <br> <br> <br>If you have any enquiries, please direct them to *Scott Wark *at <br>S.Wark@Warwick.ac.uk. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>*Figurations *is organised by the People Like You: Contemporary Figures of <br>Personalisation project. People Like You is <br>a group of scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and artists who <br>explore how personalisation actually works. We research personalisation in <br>four areas: personalised medicine and care; data science; digital cultures; <br>and interactive arts practices. <br> <br> <br> <br>People Like You is funded by a Collaborative Award in the Medical <br>Humanities and Social Sciences from The Wellcome Trust, 2018-2022. It <br>involves researchers located at Goldsmiths College, University of London; <br>Imperial College London, and The University of Warwick. <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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