CfP "Doing Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices" 20.-21. November 2015, University of Cologne
CONFERENCE
“DOING SCIENCE: TEXTS, PATTERNS, PRACTICES”
UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, 20. – 21. NOVEMBER 2015
The relationship between science and literature continues to spark critical cross- and intradisciplinary debates. From the late 1970s, Bruno Latour’s work in laboratory studies and sociology of science moved scientific practice and its interrelations with texts into critical focus, and scholars like Gillian Beer established the study of literature and science as a field that takes account of the “two-way traffic” between the disciplines.
Following these developments, the last four decades have seen a surge in representations of “doing science”, including, but by no means limited to, the role of texts, patterns, and laboratory practices. The focus of the two-day conference organised by the Department of English in collaboration with the a.r.t.e.s. Research Lab “Transformations of Knowledge” is on the mutual influence of scientific practice and textual production in the later twentieth to the twenty-first century. We invite contributions from a variety of angles that explore representations of doing science in and across different disciplines and media.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
• Facts and fictions of ‘doing’ science
• The figure of the scientist
• Experimentation as event/mode/structure/approach
• Lab vs. library: representations of text-based and practice-based research
• Patterns: enabling and limiting – cognitive, narrative, communicative
• Staging (of) science: science plays, adaptations, film, cross-media representation
• Best practice: the ethics of science
Deadline for abstracts of 200-300 words (for 20 min papers) is 1 June 2015.
Please send abstracts and a short bio-note stating professional affiliation and research interests
to
nina.engelhardt@uni-koeln.de
and julia.hoydis@uni-koeln.de
We plan to publish a selection of the conference papers.
--
Dr. Nina Engelhardt
Universität zu Köln
a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities
Research Lab »Transformations of Knowledge«
Albertus Magnus Platz
50923 Köln
Deutschland
“DOING SCIENCE: TEXTS, PATTERNS, PRACTICES”
UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, 20. – 21. NOVEMBER 2015
The relationship between science and literature continues to spark critical cross- and intradisciplinary debates. From the late 1970s, Bruno Latour’s work in laboratory studies and sociology of science moved scientific practice and its interrelations with texts into critical focus, and scholars like Gillian Beer established the study of literature and science as a field that takes account of the “two-way traffic” between the disciplines.
Following these developments, the last four decades have seen a surge in representations of “doing science”, including, but by no means limited to, the role of texts, patterns, and laboratory practices. The focus of the two-day conference organised by the Department of English in collaboration with the a.r.t.e.s. Research Lab “Transformations of Knowledge” is on the mutual influence of scientific practice and textual production in the later twentieth to the twenty-first century. We invite contributions from a variety of angles that explore representations of doing science in and across different disciplines and media.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
• Facts and fictions of ‘doing’ science
• The figure of the scientist
• Experimentation as event/mode/structure/approach
• Lab vs. library: representations of text-based and practice-based research
• Patterns: enabling and limiting – cognitive, narrative, communicative
• Staging (of) science: science plays, adaptations, film, cross-media representation
• Best practice: the ethics of science
Deadline for abstracts of 200-300 words (for 20 min papers) is 1 June 2015.
Please send abstracts and a short bio-note stating professional affiliation and research interests
to
nina.engelhardt@uni-koeln.de
and julia.hoydis@uni-koeln.de
We plan to publish a selection of the conference papers.
--
Dr. Nina Engelhardt
Universität zu Köln
a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities
Research Lab »Transformations of Knowledge«
Albertus Magnus Platz
50923 Köln
Deutschland