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The following updates concerning the Athens International Conference on Science and Literature are available on the website of the Science and Literature Commission:
The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) is holding a two-day conference on Botanical Ontologies in May. To read the call for papers, including further details, click here: Botanical Ontologies CFP
The British Society for the History of Science annual conference will be taking place at the University of St Andrews from 3rd to 6th July. The deadline for proposals is 10th February. To read more about the conference or to submit a proposal, click here.
The deadline for proposals for the conference on Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture 1660-1832 to be held at Newcastle and Northumbria Universities in July has been extended to the end of February. To download full details of the conference, including how to submit a proposal, click below:
The Universities of Oxford and Leicester are recruiting doctoral students to work on medical and natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century for their AHRC project on Citizen Science. For more information, click on the links below:
English Doctoral Studentship at Oxford in Nineteenth-Century History of Science and Literature
This is a reminder that the deadline for papers for the workshop on Women's Scientific Travelling Before 1850 to be held in London in June is the end of this month. To read the call for papers, click here.
Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture
Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing, School of English, University of Kent, 9th-10th May 2014
Call for Papers
Focusing on the literary and historical representation of irrational emotions or phobias, Fear and Loathing seeks papers on topics and authors from any period, which aim to demonstrate the extent to which literary-historical study offers us unique insight into the cultural politics of emotions. Given the growth of both affect studies and historical enquiry into emotions over the past decade, Humanities scholarship has generated a rich and varied body of work on the representations and histories of emotions, sentiments, feelings and affects. This two-day international conference seeks to build upon this research and to reflect upon the relationship between the Humanities and the study of emotions more generally. Some key questions that we envisage animating the discussion at this conference include the following: (1) how might we define phobia/fear/loathing within the context of the Humanities? (2) How have literary works been complicit with and/or reactive to dominant social phobias? (3) Can the archive be deployed to historicise feeling? (4) What role do the Humanities have in challenging contemporary phobias? We welcome proposals for individual papers and panels that address any of these core questions. Moreover, possible research topics for submission can include, but are by no means limited to:
• Phobia & Academia
• Archival Objects
• Disability/Variability/Disease
• Bodies and Minds
• Trans & Homophobia
• Letters and Diaries
• Propaganda
• Outsiders/Others/Freaks
• Religion/Theology
• Human and Nonhuman Animals
• The Monstrous
• Borders and Territories
• Aesthetics
• Science and Technologies
Please send title and abstracts (300 words) for proposed papers and panels, along with a short biographical note (100 words) to D.Kavanagh@kent.ac.uk Deadline for submissions is 31st January 2014.
Conference organising committee: Dr Declan Kavanagh, Dr Monica Mattfeld and Dr Sarah Horgan.
Introduction: Space as Experience and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century
Isobel Armstrong
Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Isobel Armstrong
The Higher Spaces of the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel
Mark Blacklock
Specular Reflections: John Brett and the Mirror of Venus
James Mussell
Moving Panoramas c. 1800 to 1840: The Spaces of Nineteenth-Century Picture-Going
John Plunkett
‘From autumn to spring, aesthetics change’: Modernity's Visual Displays
Laura Marcus
