Category: News
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CfP: 4th Syros International Workshop on Science, Philosophy and Literature. 1-3 July, 2019.
Travels and Travelers Syros, Greece July 1–3, 2019 The International Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, The School of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University and the Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation organize a three-days’ workshop to study “Travels and Travelers” in a multidisciplinary perspective within Science, Philosophy and Literature. . The CoSciLit…
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CFP: REWORKING GEORGIC University of Leeds Monday 9th – Tuesday 10th September 2019
Confirmed speakers: David Fairer (Leeds), Greg Garrard (British Columbia), Sue Edney (Bristol) Including a reading of poetry and prose with Simon Armitage, Helen Jukes, and Jack Thacker The influence and spirit of ‘georgic’, as a genre or mode – named for Virgil’s Georgics, the primary classical model – can be seen across western art and culture: from…
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Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Oxford Seminars
Oxford University’s series of seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century continues this term: Tuesday 29 January 2019 (Week 3)Prof Anne-Julia Zwierlein, University of Regensburg Monstrous Voices: (Female) Speaking Automata, Mind Science and Mass Mediation in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Fiction5.30—7.00, Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College Tuesday 12 February 2019 (Week 5)Dr Ushashi…
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ScienceHumanities Summer School MONDAY 20 MAY – FRIDAY 24 MAY 2019
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UK MONDAY 20 MAY – FRIDAY 24 MAY 2019 Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford) A free, international, postgraduate summer school In 2019 Cardiff University’s ScienceHumanities research group will host the second week-long International Summer School dedicated to the examination of the relations between the humanities and the sciences…
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CFP: Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change
A special issue of HumanitiesDeadline for submissions: 31 August 2019For further information and to submit a manuscript, visit the special issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/environmental_humanities ‘Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change’ investigates the various ways in which we experience climate change. ‘Climate,’ writes Mike Hulme, ‘is weather which has been cultured, interpreted and acted on by the imagination, through story-telling and using material technologies’ (Weathered: Cultures of Climate). Whereas…
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CFP REMINDER: The British Society for Literature and Science Fourteenth Annual Conference, Royal Holloway (University of London), 4-6 April 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline Friday 7 December) The fourteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Thursday 4 April until Saturday 6 April 2019. Keynote speakers will include Professor Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway) and Professor Angelique Richardson (Exeter). The BSLS invites proposals…
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SLSAeu 2019 cfp
The next conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, on the theme of SpaceTime, will be held in Athens on 25-18 June 2019. To read the cfp, click below: SLSAeu2019CFP-4
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Royal Society Symposium on Sleep and Stress
Sleep and Stress, Past and Present 7th December 2018 9:00am—5:00pm Kohn Centre, The Royal Society Sleep and Stress Poster A one-day interdisciplinary symposium in the Kohn Centre at the Royal Society, Sleep and Stress, Past and Present brings together expert scientists, medical practitioners, historians and literary critics to discuss the intersections between sleep and stress,…
