Author: bsls
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Narrative science in techno-environments – 18th-19th July 2019 (London)
This two-day interdisciplinary workshop is made possible thanks to the generous support of the British Academy (grant number BARSEA19\190021). It expands on the work of the Narrative Science project, a European Research Council funded project based at the London School of Economics (grant agreement No. 694732). It will take place in London on the 18th-19th…
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CFP ALLUVIUM JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE JUNE 2019: Global Contemporary: Ecologies of Gender and Class within the Combined and Uneven Anthropocene
C Alluvium is an online journal dedicated to twenty-first-century writing, affiliated with BACLS (British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies) as its Graduate-run journal. It publishes short (2-2500 word) academic articles on fiction as well as twenty-first-century approaches to the literary canon by researchers working at PG, ECR, Lecturer and Senior level. Alluvium encourages contributors to…
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TAPRA Performance and Science Events, 8 May and 4-6 September 2019
CFP Performance and Science working group at TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) 4 – 6 September Deadline: Monday 8 April 2019 We issue two calls for this year’s TAPRA conference: an open call inviting proposals that might help us map the vast terrain encompassed by ‘performance and science’; and a themed call for a joint session with the Bodies…
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PhD position: ‘Narrating Science as World-making Activity: Sea-level Change in Singapore’
Please see link above for further details.
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BAVS CONFERENCE 2019: VICTORIAN RENEWALS.
SCVS is delighted to be co-hosting the British Association of Victorian Studies 2019 conference at the University of Dundee, 28-30 August 2019, on the theme ‘Victorian Renewals.’ The CFP has now been released (PDF below), and we are accepting paper proposals for a deadline of 1 March 2019. Confirmed keynote speakers include Prof Jo McDonagh, University of Chicago; Prof Heather Shore,…
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Children’s Literature and Science
A half day conference on Children’s Literature and Science at Edinburgh Napier University, 22 February 2019. To attend please contact em.alder@napier.ac.uk
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CFP Metaphor Festival Amsterdam 28 – 31 August 2019
The Metaphor Lab Amsterdam is delighted to announce that the next Metaphor Festival will take place in Amsterdam from 28 – 31 August 2019. The Metaphor Festival is an annual conference on the use of figurative language and other modes of figurative expression. It offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning…
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CfP: 4th Syros International Workshop on Science, Philosophy and Literature. 1-3 July, 2019.
Travels and Travelers Syros, Greece July 1–3, 2019 The International Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, The School of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University and the Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation organize a three-days’ workshop to study “Travels and Travelers” in a multidisciplinary perspective within Science, Philosophy and Literature. . The CoSciLit…
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CFP: REWORKING GEORGIC University of Leeds Monday 9th – Tuesday 10th September 2019
Confirmed speakers: David Fairer (Leeds), Greg Garrard (British Columbia), Sue Edney (Bristol) Including a reading of poetry and prose with Simon Armitage, Helen Jukes, and Jack Thacker The influence and spirit of ‘georgic’, as a genre or mode – named for Virgil’s Georgics, the primary classical model – can be seen across western art and culture: from…
