Category: CFP
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CFP Pulse: a History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science Journal
The graduate journal Pulse is seeking book reviewers and research papers. Further information on reviewing is available here and on the call for papers here.
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Second Call for Papers: Mediating Climate Change
University of Leeds Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017 Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor Alexandra Harris (Liverpool); Professor Mike Hulme (King’s College London); Dr Adeline Johns-Putra (Surrey); Professor Toby Miller (Loughborough); Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) Our experience of climate change is always mediated. Its effects…
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CFP Imagining Communities. How learned collectives have formed themselves through literary means
Panel session at the 12th Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science 6-8 April 2017, University of Bristol In Imagined Communities (1983) Benedict Anderson famously argued that the idea of the nation, and national belonging, first developed with the rise of news periodicals and new ways of story-telling in novels. Readers…
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CFP Gut Feeling: Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Culture
An interdisciplinary workshop, 26-27 May 2017, University of Aberdeen Gut health has become a buzzword in contemporary culture. Ground-breaking research is pointing to potential links between the gut and such diverse areas as our mood, weight, and thought processes. The current debates on the digestive system and our physical and mental health, however, are not…
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Call for papers for a collection of essays “Can It Be?”: Representations of Science in 21st-Century Fiction
As the third millennium progresses, science and technology more than ever govern human lives, and the topic of science and/in fiction shows no signs of decline, neither in terms of artistic production nor as an area of critical inquiry. As several critical accounts of the field of 21st century literature note, writers address contemporary issues…
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CFP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference
University of Bristol, 6-8 April 2017 ONE MONTH LEFT TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACTS! The twelfth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Bristol, from Thursday 6 April until Saturday 8 April 2017. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Professor…
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2017: A Clarke Odyssey
A Conference Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK Saturday 9 December 2017 Keynote Speakers: Stephen Baxter Dr Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge) Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most important British sf writers of the twentieth century – novelist, short-story writer, scriptwriter, science populariser, fan,…
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Cultures of Anxiety: A two-day interdisciplinary conference
8 & 9 June 2017 Clifton Hill House Function Foyer Although it is notoriously difficult to define, anxiety has long been theorized in a variety of fields, from philosophy to psychology, theology to neuroscience. Since 1980, when DSM-III separated anxiety neurosis into ‘panic disorder’ and ‘generalized anxiety disorder’, our understanding of and response to anxiety…
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CFP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference
University of Bristol, 6-8 April 2017 The twelfth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Bristol, from Thursday 6 April until Saturday 8 April 2017. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Professor Robert Mitchell (Duke University), and Professor Ralph…
