THE LIFESPAN: Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course from the Medical Humanities, the Health Sciences and Age Studies
CfP
Organisers:
Dr Aura Heydenreich (President SLSAeu), Dr Martina Zimmermann (SAACY Programme Lead)
We are happy to announce that the next conference of the SLSAeu will take place in London, from 4-6 June, 2025.
THE LIFESPAN: Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course from the Medical Humanities, the Health Sciences and Age Studies CfP Organisers: Dr Aura Heydenreich (President SLSAeu), Dr Martina Zimmermann (SAACY Programme Lead)
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The journal Public Humanities invites submissions for the upcoming themed Issue Literature and Science in the Public Sphere, which will be Guest Edited by John Holmes, Jenni G Halpin, and Aura Heydenreich (President SLSAeu). The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2025.
Further details: CfP BioCriticism Webinar on 26 April 2024 with Jerome de Root: The Biomolecularisation of the Archive4/20/2024 BioCriticism webinar, 26/04, 2 pm CET
“The Biomolecularisation of the Archive” Speaker: Prof. Jerome de Groot (University of Manchester) Respondent: Prof. François-Joseph Lapointe (Université de Montréal) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83685396506?pwd=ejZlcThMZGVKNXkyRHZXSkt1T0dCQT09 Meeting ID: 836 8539 6506 Passcode: 602541 Abstract: New genetic approaches to the material of the archive have wide implications for our conception of the past, our understanding of memory, and our broader sense of what historical information even is. Whilst historical data has regularly been developed and challenged, and historians use a breadth of information, my contention is that the accelerated development of huge datasets that are beyond the reach of ‘historians’ has the potential to transform the discipline. Set within (whilst also driving) a wider biomolecular turn in society, as cultural understanding of the past becomes genetically-informed, this change in the historical approach suggests a shift towards what I call ‘double helix history’. Professor Jerome de Groot teaches at the University of Manchester. He is the author most recently of Double Helix History which looks at DNA and the past. He is currently working on new projects about FutureArchives and Biomolecular Humanities. Professor François-Joseph Lapointe is a biologist and bioartist (Université de Montréal). As part of his research in biology, he is interested in phylogenetics, systematics, population genetics, and the human microbiome. As part of his interdisciplinary artistic practice, he draws inspiration from models of molecular biology and genetics. For 2024, the annual conferences of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu), British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) and the biennial conference of the Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit), will be combined into a single meeting. This will be the first time that these three societies have joined together to share research at the many intersections of literature and science.
Further details: Website We are looking forward to receiving your proposals!
Programme - access to papers and discussion for active participants only so far:
https://posthumanism2021.wordpress.com/program/ Topic 2021: Literary and Aesthetic Posthumanism
The 2005 Chicago meeting of the International Society for Literature, Science and the Arts was notable, in the first instance, for its addition of the ‘Arts’ into the organization’s ongoing conversations. Equally notable, on this occasion incoming scholars Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, and Neil Badmington offered an influential panel on Critical Posthumanism, which started the transatlantic dialogue of the posthuman condition and posthumanist theory between the SLSA and what is now the SLSAeu, the European sister organization (founded in 2010, with its first meeting being held in Riga, in 2012 on the topic of “textures”). Bearing in mind these literary and aesthetic roots, our upcoming meeting in Bergen calls for papers that revisit concepts and consiliences in literature, science, and aesthetics. While we welcome approaches that recognize the literal, material changes in literature and arts in a digital age, we hope also to continue and advance discussions of inherent uncertainties, along with possibilities that are more cognitive than instrumental. We will be featuring, in both our panels and an accompanying art exhibit, enactments of complex human-technical assemblages in which cognition and decision-making powers are distributed in both aesthetic and literary systems – what N. Katherine Hayles would call “cognitive assemblages” and what Laura Shackelford and Louise Economides call “surreal entanglements.” Shackelford and Economides have been focusing, of late, on the work of Jeff Vandermeer; Hayles, most recently on Tom McCarthy, Peter Watts, and Colson Whitehead. But there are many other emerging authors, artists, and cross-disciplinary practitioners who embed the self in a determinedly object oriented, multiply mediated yet nonetheless cognitive environment. One outcome of the 2021 SLSAeu gathering might be the identification of an emerging aesthetic and literary practice: one that is not so much newly experimental, avant, generic, or innovative, but part of an emerging, environmental and systems framework that is not containable by these essentially Humanist dispositions. While continuing the general integration of literary studies with science and the arts, we will also welcome critical artistic interventions. Among the questions and topics we hope to address in multiple, themed panels (and gallery exhibits) are these:
Due to the corona restrictions on travelling and meeting, the 2020 conference took place on a virtual platform. We thank ANIA MALINOWSKA (University of Silesia in Katowice) for taking on this challenge and providing us with a fantastic event and exhibition. Thank you also to all the contributors and the team!
You can still access the talks and artwork on this site until April 202 at a cost of €30. Accesss via: http://anthropocenes2020.com |
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