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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">CALL FOR PAPERS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Technologies and Improvisation:<br>
Tools and theories for uncertain futures<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Nordic Summer University Ad Hoc Symposium<br>
February 9–11, 2018, University of Gothenburg, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Hosted by the Cybioses: Shaping Human-Technology Futures Group<b>
</b>of the<b> </b>Nordic Summer University, together with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, at University of Gothenburg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">We invite scholars, artists, technologists and other professionals working or writing on future technologies to take part in our first
 Nordic Summer University symposium.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">The aim of the symposium is to bring together theorists, designers and
 technologists. Together we want to discuss practices of making and the social and cultural impact of future technologies. How can philosophical questions support the development of technologies? How in turn can technological practices and development inform
 philosophical and sociological theories? And how can both making and theorizing help us imagining future technologies and their impact on societies? Guided by these questions we want to develop a philosophy for makers and a better practice for philosophy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Our first symposium investigates the role of improvisation in technological
 development and philosophy. As technologists and theorists, we improvise when we don’t know how to continue. We improvise when we move in unknown territory or when time does not allow for a systemic investigation. And yet, improvisation follows patterns. Is
 there is good and bad improvisation, and good and bad improvisers? What role does improvisation play in the development of technologies? How can technologies improve improvisation? And what can different practices and theories of improvisation tell us about
 future technologies?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">We explicitly want to foster exchange between humanities-based researchers,
 makers and artists. The interdisciplinary discussion of technological futures has yet to find its forms within and outside of academia. Our aim is, therefore, to test different forms of presentation. We encourage participants to briefly present one particular
 technology or one particular theory about a technology. The individual presentations will be complemented with open discussion rounds and documentation rounds. The focus on brief showcases, together with the small format of the workshop allows for extended
 and deep discussions, and prevents endless boring paper sessions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Topics we hope to discuss during the symposium include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">philosophy of improvisation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">the relationship between technology and improvisation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">designing for improvisation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">improvisation, technology and survival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">technology and improvisation in conflict and crisis management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">improvisation in design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">design fictions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">improvisation in previous futures (historical case studies)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">cognition and improvisation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">improvisation in engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">We are looking for brief technological and philosophical showcases limited
 to 20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE">
<span style="color:black">minutes. You could either present a particular technology, particular theory or case study you are working on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">To submit a proposal please send</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"> <b>via
 email to the coordinators</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Palle Dahlstedt
</span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:palle.dahlstedt@gu.se"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE">palle.dahlstedt@gu.se</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:13.5pt;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Rafael Dernbach
</span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:rkd32@cam.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE">rkd32@cam.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Johan Söderberg</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:13.5pt;background:white">
</span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:johan.soderberg@sts.gu.se"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE">johan.soderberg@sts.gu.se</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:13.5pt;background:white;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 written short proposal <b>(max. 300 words)</b> with a title<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"> A short bio <b>(max. 200 words)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">It is possible to attend the symposium without presenting. In this case,
 please just email a short bio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">The deadline to submit proposals is January 5th, 2018. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Notifications
 of accepted presentations will be sent before the preliminary program is announced on January 8<sup>th</sup>, 2018 on www.nordic.university.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Those associated with institutions:  45€<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 as well as conference materials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Departure: 11.2.2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 can ask to have the fee waived. Subsidies are conditioned on available funds. A limited number of free accommodations in private homes are also available. Please mention in your application, if you want to be considered for a scholarship and/or private accommodation,
 together with a motivation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">The Nordic Summer University (NSU) </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">is
 a Nordic network for research and interdisciplinary studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">NSU is a nomadic, academic institution, which organises workshop-seminars
 across disciplinary and national borders. Since it was established in 1950, Nordic Summer University has organised forums for cultural and intellectual debate in the Nordic and Baltic region, involving students, academics, politicians, and intellectuals from
 this region and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Decisions about the content and the organisational form of the NSU lay
 with its participants. The backbone of the activities in the NSU consists of its thematic study circles. In the study circles researchers, students and professionals from different backgrounds collaborate in scholarly investigations distributed regularly in
 summer and winter symposia during a three-year period.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SV">
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