Archive for the ‘ Call for Paper ’ Category
CALL FOR PAPERS – PAIN AND OLD AGE: THREE CENTURIES OF SUFFERING IN SILENCE? Public Conference: 27 October 2012 The Birkbeck Pain Project and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Birkbeck, University of London Organised by Visiting Fellow to the Birkbeck Pain Project, Prof. Lynn Botelho (Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania) According to [ READ MORE ]
SECOND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH HUMANITIES CONFERENCE Music, Health, and Humanity The Colleges of the Arts and of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA, are hosting the Second International Health Humanities Conference from Thursday-Saturday, 9, 10, 11 August, 2012. CONFERENCE FOCUS In accordance with the interdisciplinary nature of the Health Humanities, [ READ MORE ]
Below you will find a call for papers for an international conference on the subject of Theatre, Performance, Madness, and Psychiatry. This interdisciplinary conference is part of an AHRC funded project to investigate the history of performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals since the 19th century. The conference will take place on 17th [ READ MORE ]
Interest for closed spaces played an important part in the critical renewal of the humanities from the 1960s on, as demonstrated in particular the work of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault. For the past ten years, the spatial turn has provided new impetus for a greater consideration of space as a place of socialisation. These [ READ MORE ]
“It is bizarre how little of twentieth-century science has been assimilated into twentieth century art”. – C.P. Snow, 1959 In his 1959 lecture “The Two Cultures” C.P. Snow asserted that the intellectual life of western society was increasingly being split into two polar groups: the sciences, and the humanities. The notion that visual artists and [ READ MORE ]
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