This conference explores how our virtual concepts and reconstructed worlds impact humanity, the arts, and nature in the age of rising anthropocentrism.

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

1. Illusion and the ancient world-mirrors and other artifacts and their elite metaphysical uses
2. Specific cultural beliefs related to mirrors, truth, soul, and self
3. Physical science: knowledge and beliefs relating to mirrors both ancient and modern
4. Studies of writers, artists, and others who emphasize reality and illusion in their creative works (Lewis Carrol, Oliver Goldsmith, and others)
5. Trompe l’oeil (Early and Modern Visual Art)
6. Truth, illusion, and delusion in the age of the Internet--You Tube and other Media
7. The reinvented self: modern or historical
8. The dangers of deception (social and environmental concerns)
9. Specific perspectives on truth and illusion as symbolized or addressed in the visual arts, creative writing, new historical narratives, architecture, and other media
10. How altered vision can have far reaching impacts on culture, society, and the environment