Submissions are invited for the seventh Annual Conference of The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 27-29, 2005.

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the manifestations, effects, and representations of the new technologies of the 1914-1945 period. Considering this distinct period in twentieth century history will offer crucial perspectives and insights on the significance of visual and auditory technologies, designed and built technologies, technologies of the body, technologies of flight, speed and simultaneity, technologies of production, technologies of social engineering. We are particularly interested in exploring the cultural relationships that emerge as the roles of the media and technology shape each other in our Space Between.

Possible topics include, but should not be limited to, the following:

• Technologies of media
• Textuality and technology
• Cultural responses to mass media
• Extensions and mediations of the body
• Medical and reproductive technologies
• Technology and economies
• Technology/media and psychology
• Propaganda and design
• War, weaponry, and art
• The machine aesthetic
• Technology/media and constructions of nation, gender and class
• Technology/media and democracy, fascism, and communism
• Resistance through and/or to media and technology

Please send 300 word abstracts or 10 page double-spaced 12 pt. font papers by January 15, 2005 to the e-mail address given below. E-mail submissions are preferred, but hard copy proposals may be sent to: