Tag: CFP

  • TAPRA Performance and Science Events, 8 May and 4-6 September 2019

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    CFP Performance and Science working group at TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) 4 – 6 September Deadline: Monday 8 April 2019 We issue two calls for this year’s TAPRA conference: an open call inviting proposals that might help us map the vast terrain encompassed by ‘performance and science’; and a themed call for a joint session with the Bodies…

  • 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: Looking back on the End of Time

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    Looking back on the End of Time — Modernism and Beyond University of East Anglia, UK Keynote Speakers: Prof. Randall Stevenson (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Bryony Randall (University of Glasgow) At the turn of the twentieth century developments in the sciences and technology seemed to necessitate a radical review of the nature, perhaps even…

  • CFP: Fourth Annual Science and the Public Conference

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    University of Brighton, June 13th and 14th 2009. Science and the public: uncertain pasts, presents and futures. The relationship between science and the public has provided fruitful material for analysis from a range of academic disciplines, and an important area of policy and practice, in recent years. Studies and experience have revealed a startling complexity,…

  • CFP: British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, 2009

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    The BSHS Annual Conference will take place at Stamford Hall, University of Leicester from 2 – 5 July 2009. The Programme Committee invites papers or sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine and their colleagues in the wider scholarly community on any theme, topic or period. The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for sessions or…

  • CFP: Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question

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    Science Museum and Tate Modern, London, 23-24 January 2009 On 7 May 1959, C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture in Cambridge on the subject of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. A failed scientist and a moderately successful novelist, C. P. Snow drew on his experience as a Civil Service Commissioner to consider…

  • CFP: ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

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    ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science University of Glamorgan | The ATRiuM Campus Cardiff 8-9 May 2009 Keynote Speakers: Laura Otis (Emory University) | Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University) CALL FOR PAPERS The history of phobias as disease entities is intimately connected…

  • Conference: Thomas Beddoes, Doctor of Enlightenment

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    Friday 12 December 2008 at 9:00am Location: Royal Society, Kohn Centre A one-day conference organised in conjunction with the Centre for Life Writing Research, King’s College London. Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of British medicine. Part of a group of radical physicians friendly with Erasmus Darwin…

  • CFP: British Society for Literature and Science conference 2009

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    The 4th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Reading on 27th-29th March, 2009. Keynote speakers will include Dame Gillian Beer, formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge; Patrick Parrinder, Professor of English at the University of Reading; and Simon Conway Morris,…

  • Conference CFP – Global Risk

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    CALL FOR PAPERS: Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk An international, Interdisciplinary Conference Cardiff University, UK Thursday 2*Friday 3 July 2009 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Imre Szemán (McMaster University, Canada) Dr Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK) What are the cultural implications of living under conditions of global, manufactured risk? In the twentieth…

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