Author: bsls
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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…
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ScienceHumanities Summer School MONDAY 20 MAY – FRIDAY 24 MAY 2019
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UK MONDAY 20 MAY – FRIDAY 24 MAY 2019 Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford) A free, international, postgraduate summer school In 2019 Cardiff University’s ScienceHumanities research group will host the second week-long International Summer School dedicated to the examination of the relations between the humanities and the sciences…
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CFP: Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change
A special issue of HumanitiesDeadline for submissions: 31 August 2019For further information and to submit a manuscript, visit the special issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/environmental_humanities ‘Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change’ investigates the various ways in which we experience climate change. ‘Climate,’ writes Mike Hulme, ‘is weather which has been cultured, interpreted and acted on by the imagination, through story-telling and using material technologies’ (Weathered: Cultures of Climate). Whereas…
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Vernon Lee 2019: An Anniversary Conference
30-31 May 2019: British Institute of Florence Keynote lectures by Carolyn Burdett and Christa Zorn. The conference will also include a private performance of Lee’s pacifist work, The Ballet of the Nations, staged at her Florentine home, Il Palmerino. ‘Vernon Lee 2019’, an international conference organised by the University of Surrey and the University of…
