Category: CFP

  • The Poetics of Knowledge cfp

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    The Poetics of Knowledge University of Bern, 5-7 November 2015 One very common narrative about Victorian Britain is that it was an age of ground-breaking scientific discoveries: Charles Lyell significantly extended the age of our planet; Charles Darwin forced a rethinking of the origins and development of life; Michael Faraday and James Maxwell Clark paved the way…

  • CFP on Science and Culture in the early 20th century

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    Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century Institute of Historical Research, London 22-24 April 2015 Engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of “Being modern”, across culture in Britain and the western world in the years around the First World War. Today, historical studies of literature, art, design, lifestyle and…

  • CFP: Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic and Technology

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    Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic and Technology 10-12 July 2015 Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London Call for Papers Papers are sought on all aspects of ‘Science, Magic and Technology’ in late medieval literature and culture and particularly within Chaucer studies. Approaches might include: The presentation of scientific ideas in myth and poetry…

  • CFP: Science, Pure and Applied: Oliver Lodge, Physics and Engineering

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    CFP University of Liverpool October 31,2014 Deadline: September 1, 2014 Oliver Lodge was a defender of pure science, particularly in the modern university, yet he took a keen interest in how science might be applied throughout his career, taking out patents and setting up businesses. This workshop, which will take place in the University of…

  • Conference on Ageing

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    This is a reminder of the call for papers on the interdisciplinary conference on Ageing: Histories, Mythologies and Taboos to be held in Bergen on 30-31 January 2015. To read the call, click below: Bergen Ageing conference cfp For further information please visit the website: http://www.uib.no/fg/litt_vit/70975/interdisciplinary-conference-ageing-histories-mythologies-and-taboos  

  • Sustainable development and culture symposium

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    The international Routes to Sustainability network is holding a symposium at the University of Ferrara on Routing Sustainable Development towards a Culture of Wellbeing on Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 October 2014. It will investigate sustainability and wellbeing in the domains of economics, environment, politics and culture, addressing theoretical issues and case studies in an interdisciplinary…

  • Conference on Ageing

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    CALL FOR PAPERS Interdisciplinary Conference 30 and 31 January 2015 University of Bergen (Norway) AGEING: HISTORIES, MYTHOLOGIES, AND TABOOS The Research group “Literature and Science” invites scholars of literature, the arts, and the medical humanities, as well as philosophers, cultural historians, historians of religion, sociologists, and anthropologists to explore the symbolic aspects of ageing and…

  • Theories and Uses of Light postgraduate conference cfp

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    Theories and Uses of Light in British Arts of the 19th and 20th centuries Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, 20-21 June 2014 In a chapter from The Mirror and the Lamp entitled “Newton’s rainbow and the poet’s,” M. H. Abrams draws a genealogy of the critiques levelled by British writers at practitioners of physics and the natural…

  • Science and Performance conference

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    Performing Science: Dialogues Across Cultures The Science and Performance Conference The Lincoln School of Performing Arts, The University of Lincoln, 23rd April – 25th April, 2014 The Science and Performance conference aims to bring together academic scholars from humanistic and scientific disciplines as well as practitioners and funders, to examine ideas and practices – past,…

  • Botanical Ontologies conference

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    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

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