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<td>Deadline extended: CfP Ada Lovelace Postgraduate
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<td>Sun, 6 Sep 2015 10:21:43 +0100</td>
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<td>Kanta Dihal <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kanta.dihal@ELL.OX.AC.UK"><kanta.dihal@ELL.OX.AC.UK></a></td>
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<td>Kanta Dihal <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kanta.dihal@ELL.OX.AC.UK"><kanta.dihal@ELL.OX.AC.UK></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:MERSENNE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">MERSENNE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a></td>
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b>Texts and
contexts: the cultural legacies of Ada Lovelace</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><i>“That brain of
mine is more than merely mortal; as time will show.”</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center">A workshop for
graduate students and early career researchers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center">Tuesday 8 December
2015<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center">Mathematics
Institute and St Anne’s College, Oxford<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), daughter of poet
Lord Byron, is celebrated as a pioneer of computer science.
The notes she added to her translation of Luigi Menabrea’s
paper on Charles Babbage’s analytical engine (1843) are
considered to contain a prototype computer program. During her
short life, Lovelace not only contributed original ideas to
the plans for this early computer; she also imagined wider
possibilities for the engine, such as its application to
music, and meditated on its limitations. Lovelace leaves a
legacy not just as a computer scientist, but also as a muse
for literary writers, a model to help us understand the role
of women in science in the nineteenth century, and an
inspiration for neo-Victorian and steampunk traditions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>As part of the University of Oxford’s celebrations to mark
the 200th anniversary of Lovelace’s birth, this one-day
workshop will bring together graduates and early career
researchers to discuss the varied cultural legacies of this
extraordinary mathematician. The day will feature an expert
panel including graphic novelist <b>Sydney Padua</b> and
biographer <b>Richard Holmes</b>, as well as a keynote
address from <strong>Professor Sharon Ruston</strong>, Chair
in Romanticism in the Department of English and Creative
Writing at Lancaster University.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The day will conclude with a reception and buffet when there
will be opportunities to meet with speakers from the Ada
Lovelace 200 Symposium, which will also take place in the
Mathematics Institute on the following two days (9-10
December). Researchers from all disciplines are invited to
submit proposals for papers on the influences of Lovelace’s
work, on topics including, but not limited to, literature,
history, mathematics, music, visual art, and computer science.
This might include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">Lovelace’s place in the study of the history of
science;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">Lovelace and <b>women in science</b> in the
nineteenth century;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">Early nineteenth-century <b>scientific
networks</b>, including Lovelace’s relationship with such
individuals as Charles Babbage and Mary Somerville. We also
encourage papers which consider other scientific networks
from this period, beyond Lovelace’s circle;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">Lovelace and discussions about the <b>role of
the imagination in scientific practice</b> in the
nineteenth century;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">Lovelace as <b>translator and commentator</b>;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><strong><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Mathematics</span></strong><b>
and music</b>, and the musical possibilities Lovelace
envisaged for Babbage’s engine;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">Lovelace’s own <b>textual legacies</b>, such
as her correspondence, childhood exercises and mathematical
notes held in the Bodleian;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">Lovelace’s <b>technological legacies</b>, from
her seminal work on Babbage’s Analytical Engine to her
impact on computer programming today;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">Lovelace’s role in the <b>steampunk tradition</b>,
from Gibson and Sterling’s <i>The Difference Engine</i> to
Sydney Padua’s <i>The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and
Babbage</i>, and neo-Victorian fashion;<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">Efforts and activities to <b>commemorate and
memorialise </b>Lovelace, from the recent Google Doodle
to the annual Ada Lovelace Day.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p>Proposals, not exceeding 250 words, for 15-minute papers
should be submitted to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:adalovelaceworkshop@ell.ox.ac.uk">adalovelaceworkshop@ell.ox.ac.uk</a>
by <strong>Midnight</strong><b>, Friday 18 September 2015</b>.
Those who are accepted to speak at this graduate workshop will
also be offered free registration for the Ada Lovelace 200
Symposium taking place on the following two days.<o:p></o:p></p>
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