Category: CFP

  • CFP: Heavenly Discourses: Myth, Astronomy and Culture

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    Heavenly Discourses: Myth, Astronomy and Culture http://heavenlydiscourses.org/ An Interdisciplinary Conference organised jointly by Nicholas Campion (School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David) and Darrelyn Gunzburg (Department of History of Art, University of Bristol) Wills Memorial Building University of Bristol 14-16 October…

  • CFP: Literature and Mathematics in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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    An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 16-18 May 2011. Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers or for panels on any aspect of the relationship between literature and mathematics in Europe during the long nineteenth century.  Proposals and papers should be in English.  Keynote speakers:  Professor Daniel Brown (University of Western Australia).…

  • CFP Bodies in Movement: Intersecting Discourses of Materiality in the Sciences and the Arts

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    The University of Edinburgh, May 28-29 2011 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Dr. Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University), Dr. Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Dr. Johanna Oksala (University of Dundee). The last two decades have witnessed a turn both to materiality and movement in critical, social and feminist theory. However, theorists of politics and movement…

  • Cfp: The Book in Art and Science

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    The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) is holding a conference on ‘The Book in Art and Science’ in Washington DC, 14-17 July 2011.  Proposals for individual papers and panels are invited: the deadline is November 30 2010.  Questions to be addressed may include: What tensions exist between the book in…

  • CFP: The Virus (special issue of Excursions: The Postgraduate Journal for Interdisciplinary Research)

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    Call for Papers: The logic of the virus has become endemic. Viral ads mirror contagion to convey their message. Computers and systems are struck down by infections. Pigs and birds are transformed into sinister hosts. Terrorists form cells and virulent covert networks, globalisation becomes a creeping homogenisation attacking the idiosyncratic, and media rapidly evolve to…

  • CFP – Lost and Found: In Search of Extinct Species

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    Explora International Conference 31 March–1 April 2011 CAS (EA – 801) / Toulouse Natural History Museum Extinction has always fascinated and intrigued men, be they men of science or men of letters. The history of the Earth has been marked by five major mass extinctions, the most famous being undoubtedly the one that saw the…

  • Cfp: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century

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    Call for papers Interdisciplinary Science Reviews ” Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century” This is to invite proposals for contributions to a themed issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on the topic of “ISR Poetries and Sciences CFP”, to be published as volume 39, number 1, March 2014. Reference here to the present century is…

  • Cfp: The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics

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    Call for papers International Interdisciplinary Conference, 17-18 February 2011 Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University, UK Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 2010 This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between aesthetics and medical understandings of the body. Today’s vogue for neurological accounts of artistic emotions has a…

  • CFP: (Dis)Entangling Darwin

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    (Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections University of Porto, Portugal 2009 marks the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth (12 February 1809) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species (24 November 1859). The University of Porto CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) is holding a special conference to…

  • Cfp: Nature and the Long Nineteenth Century

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    A one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference exploring intersections of the natural world with nineteenth-century literature and culture, to be held at the University of Edinburgh, Saturday, 6 February 2010. Keynote speakers: Dr Martin Willis, University of Glamorgan, Dr Christine Ferguson, University of Glasgow, Professor Nick Daly, University College Dublin. In the twenty-first century, environmentalism and the…

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