Author: bsls
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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…
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CFP: Beastly Modernisms, Glasgow, September 2019
Please click through for links to the full CFP Beastly Moderisms and Call for Poems Beastly Modernisms
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DEADLINE APPROACHING ‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care 1800-1948’
University of Nottingham, Humanities Building, Friday 11 January 2019, 10.00 – 16.00. Keynote speaker: Professor Christine Hallett (University of Huddersfield) This one-day workshop seeks to bring together researchers with an interest in the history and representations of healthcare, medicine, nursing, hospitals, and public health in the UK between 1800 and 1948, with a particular focus…
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BSLS Winter Symposium – Registration Open
Registration is now open for the symposium: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsls-winter-symposium-2018-tickets-52160049111 There is also a draft programme on the website.
