ELINAS Inaugural Conference on Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization
May 10, 2014 in News, Other Organisations, Related Events by bsls | Permalink
ELINAS Inaugural Conference on Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization in Erlangen, Germany, May 29th - June 1st
Can physics be poeticized? Is there a specific rhetoric to its language? Physics and literature appear to offer two diametrically opposed ways of viewing and representing the world. Yet in combination they have great potential for development. ELINAS, the Erlangen Research Center for Literature and Natural Science, is an interdisciplinary forum dedicated to the exchange of knowledge between physics and literature. Its field of inquiry includes both the significance of language and metaphors in physical research and the discursive and narrative processes in literary representations of natural scientific
theories.
Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization, ELINAS' inaugural conference, will take place in Erlangen, Germany, from May 29th to June 1st. Invited speakers include scientists and humanities scholars as well as poets and novelists, amongst others Brian Schwartz (Physics, New York), Jay Labinger (Chemistry, California Insitute of Technology), Arkady Plotnitsky (English, Purdue), Dirk Vanderbeke (English, Jena), Susan M. Gaines (writer-in-residence, Fiction Meets Science, Bremen), and Durs Gruenbein (poet, Rome).
There is no conference fee. Registration is open until May 23rd.
For information on how to register, a full conference programme, and further information visit ELINAS' conference website.
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Important links
- AHRC Science in Culture Theme
- Bergen Literature and Science Research Group
- British Society for the History of Science
- Cardiff ScienceHumanities
- Commission on Science and Literature
- Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science (ELINAS)
- Fiction Meets Science (FMS)
- History of Science Society
- International Union of History and Philosophy of Science
- Journal of Literature and Science
- Literature and Science at the University of Oxford
- Literature and Science Hub, University of Liverpool
- London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group
- Natural History Museum Centre for Arts and Humanities Research
- Royal Society Centre for History of Science
- SLSA, Europe
- Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
- University of Reading Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the Humanities and Science (IRHS)