Category: CFP

  • The Eye’s Mind: Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities

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    An international conference at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 20 – 22 May 2016 Many fields of culture, especially art and literature, religion and science, rely on the visual imagination. Its importance for our mental life has long made it a subject of interest to philosophers, and more recently…

  • CFP – Bridging the Divide: Literature and Science

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    Bridging the Divide: Literature and Science 3rd June 2016 hosted at the University of Kent Organised by the Universities of Kent and Sussex Keynote speaker: Dr Pamela Thurschwell – Sussex   ‘Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing’ – Thomas Huxley   The relationship between literature and science has…

  • Call for Papers: Mood – Aesthetic, Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives

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    An Interdisciplinary Two-day Conference at the University of Warwick 6th and 7th May 2016 Keynote speakers: Prof Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Author of Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature (2012), Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (2004) and After 1945 – Latency as Origin of the Present (2013). Prof Giovanna…

  • University of Exeter Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, 2016.

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    Call for Papers Keynotes: Dr Jana Funke (University of Exeter) Dr Mike Mantin (Swansea University) Following on from the success of preceding Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conferences in 2014 and 2015, this interdisciplinary conference aims to reflect the broad and vibrant research of the medical humanities by bringing together postgraduate researchers from across the field. We…

  • Cities and Science Summer school

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    The Central European University in Budapest is holding its annual Summer University for graduate students, junior or post-doctoral researchers, teachers and professionals on the theme of Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe. The course will take place on 18-27 July 2016, and the…

  • (Dis)Connected Forms: Narratives on the Fractured Self

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    8th and 9th September 2016 An Interdisciplinary Conference at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation Co-organised by Gul Dag and Sandra Mills University of Hull Discourses concerning the concept of (dis)connection are especially prevalent in contemporary society. The relationship between the mind and the body – whether fractured or in flux…

  • CFP: Ageing Brains and Minds, Ageing Senses and Sentiments: Literature, Neurology, Psychiatry (due 15/2/2016)

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    AGEING BRAINS AND MINDS, AGEING SENSES AND SENTIMENTS: LITERATURE, NEUROLOGY, PSYCHIATRY May 26-27, 2016 Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris The Bergen Literature and Science Research group invites scholars of the humanities, neurologists and psychiatrists to explore the phenomenology of the ageing self. This research seminar encourages topics that intrinsically connect especially literary texts on…

  • CoSciLit conference

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    COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE, DHST/IUHPST 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on SCIENCE & LITERATURE 7-9 September 2016 Pöllau, Austria Following the successful 1st International Conference on Science and Literature which took place in Athens this Conference is the second to be organized under the aegis of the Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST. The second International Conference will be…

  • Science Fiction Research Association Conference 2016

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    Science Fiction Research Association Conference 2016 CFP – SFRA 2016 cfp 2.1 Sml  

  • Commission on Science and Literature – Upcoming Conferences

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      The next international conference of the Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit) will take place from 7th to 9th September 2016 at Pöllau, Austria and will be hosted by Echophysics and the Victor Franz Hess Society, with the support of the European Physical Society. The call for papers will be announced in due course,…

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