Category: CFP

 New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course   19-20 March 2018 Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds, UK   In recent decades, global research activity around ageing and the life course has grown exponentially. Work in the clinical sciences, and in the established field of gerontology, has explored the challenges and opportunities of ageing…

Maritime Animals Telling stories of animals at sea     Two-day international conference National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK     April 26-27, 2019   Keynote speakers Thom van Dooren       William Gervase Clarence-Smith     In maritime narratives of humans, ships and the sea, animals are too often absent, or marginalised in passing references, despite the…

CALL FOR PAPERS The thirteenth annual conference of the British Society of Literature & Science will take place at Oxford Brookes University, from Thursday 5 April until Saturday 7 April 2018. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Professor Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University). The BSLS invites proposals for 20-minute…

BSLS Winter Symposium: Metaphor in Literature and Science – King’s College London, Saturday November 4, 2017 Keynote speaker: Professor Alice Jenkins, University of Glasgow The aim of this symposium is to re-examine the role of metaphor in literature and science studies in the light of new developments and questions in the field. The study of metaphor…

Though Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel are generally regarded as the “founders” of sociology as a discipline, sociological theory was actually rooted in nineteenth-century culture as intellectuals and scientists attempted to make sense of the political, economic, and social dislocations brought about by the Industrial and French Revolutions. Auguste Comte (who coined the term…

The Journal of Science and Popular Culture will be publishing its first issue in 2018. Please click on the link below to read the call for papers: Science and Popular Culture CFP 2

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (ISR) is a quarterly journal that aims to set contemporary and historical developments in the natural and social sciences, engineering and technology into their social and cultural contexts and to illumine their interrelations with the humanities and arts.   On behalf of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews allow me to issue this call for…

Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 February 2017 Full name / name of organization: Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer Henke Contact email: natalie.roxburgh@uni-siegen.de, j.henke@uni-bremen.de Psychopharmacology and British Literature, 1650 to 1900, an edited volume to be submitted for consideration in the series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine, is now inviting submissions. This volume’s aim is to…

Literature and Science Hub, University of Liverpool, 20th April 2017 An interdisciplinary, one-day conference on the cultural representation, study and conservation of trees and woodlands. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford), author of The Long, Long Life of Trees (2016) Trees are sites of natural, cultural and personalised memory. Their…