The 19th International Conference of the Jewish Law Association will be on the Impact of Technology, Science, and Knowledge on Jewish Law and Ethics. The conference will be held at Tel Aviv University from July 11 to July 13, 2016. The conference committee invites scholars from all disciplines to submit presentation proposals. Proposals, including a short CV, should be up to one page and sent to JLAconference2016@gmail.com, by January 15, 2016. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
· Post-humanism: Jewish law on bionic body parts, synthetic biology, technologically mediated sensations (cameras, loud speakers, virtual reality), and futuristic science.
· Identity: the effect of biology and virtual reality.
· Science education: the effects of evolutionism, archeology, Biblical studies, etc.
· Autonomy: free will vs. determinism in light of neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
· Social media and virtual/new communities, novel forms of communication and texts.
· Information Technologies: the effect of information retrieval systems etc.
· Questions and fields can be combined. For example, one may ask whether causality in Jewish Law (grama and grami in religious law, torts and criminal law) has changed due to conceptual changes in physics, technological developments and/or new research in the social sciences.
