2024
Interdisciplinary Ways of Writing: Are you interested in bidding to interdisciplinary research calls? The ScienceHumanities in collaboration with the Resilient Cities in Fragile Contexts URB will hold an interdisciplinary writing session. Structured over two linked sessions the event will introduce key tips for responding to interdisciplinary bids and offer an opportunity to share experience. It will be facilitated by colleagues who are members of UKRI’s Interdisciplinary Assessment College. Early Career Researchers are encouraged to participate but the event will be suitable for all.
To participate please sign up at:https://forms.office.com/e/6tYTz1v6kY by 4th March
JANUARY
Keir Waddington, Interdisciplinary Ways of Working, Workshop, Cardiff University
2023
DECEMBER
Planning, Architecture and Health Workshop with the Cardiff School of Architecture
NOVEMBER
Blue Humanities Workshop with Blue Humanities Research Group, Bremen University
Research Seminar Series. Prof. Mark Bould (UWE), ‘Strategic Realism, Techno-Utopianism and Environmental Apocalypticism: Key Tendencies in Cli-Fi/Sci-Fi Cinema’.
MAY
Reading Group. Michael Cronin, Eco-Translation. Hosted by Dr Florian Auerochs (Visiting Researcher from the University of Freiburg).
MARCH
Research Seminar Series. Dr Ben Smith (University of Exeter), ‘Ghost Nets and Phantom Islands: Mapping the Anthropocene’.
DECEMBER
Precarity & Resilience: Water Past and Present workshop with Resilient Cities in Fragile Contexts University Research Network
2022
JUNE
Energy Humanities International Summer School
Graeme MacDonald, ‘”And still the oil proved stubborn”: Petroculture and the Energy Humanities’. Public lecture on energy and the environment, run as part of the ScienceHumanities Summer School.
2021
DECEMBER
Research Seminar Series. Malcom Ferdinand, ‘Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World’.
NOVEMBER
Research Seminar Series. Celina Osuna (Arizona State University), ‘Storied Deserts and Indigenous Women Writers From the U.S. Southwest’
Cardiff Environmental Cultures Reading Group. Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)
OCTOBER
Research Seminar Series. Maddison McGann (University of Iowa), ‘Viral Reception and the Crisis of Time in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man‘
Cardiff Environmental Cultures Reading Group. Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble (2016)
JUNE
Cardiff Environmental Cultures Reading Group on Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing R
MAY
Cardiff Environmental Cultures and Environmental Justice Research Unit Reading Group on Dipesh Chakrabarty’s The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021).
MARCH
Cardiff Environmental Cultures and Environmental Justice Research Unit Reading Group on Kathryn Yussof’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. March 10th 2021.
FEBRUARY
‘Environmental Activism Workshop’ for students taking eco-modules at Cardiff University. The workshop featured presentations by Prof. Allen Webb (University of Western Michigan), Emma Lewins (SOS-UK), Hannah Penwright (Cardiff University) and Dr Sophia Hatzisavvidou (University of Bath). 23rd February 2021.
Cardiff BookTalk in association with Cardiff ScienceHumanities — Susan M. Gaines’ Accidentals. Martin Willis, Frank Hailer and novelist Susan M. Gaines discussed this contemporary novel that addresses some of the most pressing environmental and political issues of our times. February 17th 2021.
‘Politicising Environments: a workshop on politics and the environment’. Four informal 10-15 minute presentations from four scholars, each followed by questions, and then culminating in plenary discussion. Our conversations were prompted by contributions from Wilko Hardenberg (MPIWG), Anna Hornidge (DIE), Flora Roberts (Cardiff), and Aidan Tynan (Cardiff). February 12th 2021
2020
DECEMBER
Professional Development Seminar on ‘Embedding environmental issues in non-eco modules’ with contributions from Aidan Tynan, Ceri Sullivan, Jamie Castell, David Shackleton and Allen Webb. December 15th 2020.
ScienceHumanities Unscripted – The Environmental Humanities. December 7th 2020.
NOVEMBER
Environmental Activism Workshop with Professor Allen Webb (Western Michigan University). November 17th 2020.
ScienceHumanities Unscripted: The role of the humanities during the pandemic. 16th November 2020.
MARCH
Martin Willis and Keir Waddington, visit to the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam, March 2020.
FEBRUARY
Keir Waddington, ‘Interdisciplinary Working(s)’, Cardiff Futures, February 2020.
Martin Willis and Keir Waddington, The ScienceHumanities and Interdisciplinary Research, HVUK, 13-14th February.
2019
OCTOBER
Martin Willis and Keir Waddington, ‘There are two ways of telling this story’, AIS conference, Amsterdam, 24-26th October 2019.
JUNE
Roundtable discussion on the Technosphere, Duke University, 19th June 2019.
Cardiff-Duke ScienceHumanities Symposium. 18th June 2019.
MAY
ScienceHumanities International Summer School. 20-24th May 2019.
APRIL
ScienceHumanities Populations Workshop. 10th April 2019.
DECEMBER
James Castell (with Wilko Graf von Hardenberg), Transnational Conceptions of Nature and Ecology, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
2018
NOVEMBER
James Castell & Keir Waddington, Roundtable, The ScienceHumanities, British Society for Literature and Science Postgraduate Conference
OCTOBER
Keir Waddington, Frankenfest, Cardiff University
SEPTEMBER
James Castell, Frankenstein, BBC Beyond Belief (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bjzq68)
JULY
James Castell, Martin Willis & Keir Waddington, Plenary Panel, 3rd International Conference on Science and Literature, Sorbonne University, Paris
JUNE
ScienceHumanities International Summer School
MAY
ScienceHumanities International Summer School
Keir Waddington & Martin Willis, The Moonstone, BookTalk, Cardiff University.
MARCH
James Castell, Martin Willis & Keir Waddington, The ScienceHumanities, Centre for Environmental Humanities, Bristol.
James Castell, Martin Willis & Keir Waddington, Cardiff Duke Colloquium, Duke University, NC, USA.
James Castell, Martin Willis & Keir Waddington, Roundtable on Interdisciplinarity, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science and Cultural Theory, Duke University, NC, USA.
JANUARY
Martin Willis & Keir Waddington, Talks in support of ‘Drawing Bipolarity’, Exhibition opening, Insole Court, Cardiff.
2016
DECEMBER
ScienceHumanities International Colloquium, Cardiff University. 2-3 December 2016.
Martin Willis, Invited Seminar’, ‘Edinburgh Medicine’, University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 7th December 2016.
James Castell, Invited Seminar, ‘Romanticism in the Anthropocene’ and ScienceHumanities at Amherst College, USA, 8th December 2016.
James Castell, ‘Romanticism in the Anthropocene’, Department of English and Princeton Environmental Insitute, Princeton University, USA, 12th December 2016.
NOVEMBER
Talk: Martin Willis, ‘The Visual History of Seizures: Exhibitions and Talks’. 18 November 2016.
James Castell and Martin Willis, Podcast, ‘Reflecting on the New Humanities’, ScienceHumanities Online, 1st November 2016.
Keir Waddington, Conference Paper, ‘‘misled by the picturesque appearance of villages’: The rural idyll, backwardness, and imagining the rural environment in Victorian Britain ‘, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, 30th Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 3-6 November 2016.
Martin Willis, Conference Paper, ‘Science in Travel Guides to London’, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, 30th Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 3-6 November 2016.
James Castell, “Romanticism in the Anthropocene’” Cambridge University Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies Research Seminar
OCTOBER
Talk: Martin Willis, Keir Waddington and Becky Spear, ‘Pain and Prejudice: Women and Science in the Romantic Era’.
MARCH
Martin Willis, Blog Post, “What Might the ScienceHumanities Look Like?’” ScienceHumanities Online
Seminar: Sam Goodman, “Alcoholism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children”
Medical Education Journals Reading Group (and ongoing across the year)
FEBRUARY
Seminar: Sally Shuttleworth, “Diseases of Modern Life”
Read Harriet Gordon’s Report Here
2011
NOVEMBER
Psychiatric Narrative workshop, Glamorgan Archive, Cardiff. The workshop explored the different types of illness narration through an examination of psychiatric narratives and the problems of uncovering the patient’s voice in psychiatric institutions. Further details of the event can be found at: http://literatureandscience.research.glam.ac.uk/cissmi/offsick/events/
JULY
Off Sick Exhibitions, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Denbighshire and District
JUNE
Poets Encounter Medicine, University of Glamorgan. This event placed stories and experiences of illness in both literary and clinical contexts. It consisted of discussions about how creative-writing can help us to understand illness, and featured readings from poetry by inspired by experiences of illness Gwyneth Lewis, former National Poet of Wales, and Philip Gross, former holder of the T. S. Eliot prize for Poetry. Further details of the event can be found at: http://literatureandscience.research.glam.ac.uk/cissmi/offsick/events/
MAY
Narratives of Illness: Practices and Practitioners, University of Glamorgan. This workshop for practitioners took an interdisciplinary approach to illness narratives, focusing on the experiences of families and carers as well as patients, and the ways in which narratives and storytelling are used by medical practitioners and those working with patients and their families. Further details of the event can be found at: http://literatureandscience.research.glam.ac.uk/cissmi/offsick/events/
APRIL
Off Sick Participants Workship: One of the key activities of the Off Sick Project was the support it provided to participants who wished to undertake a piece of writing about illness but had little or no experience of doing so. Across a period of a few months the Off Sick team held a series of creative workshops to give participants a starting point from which to go on and write in their own ways. Workshops took place in the homes of participants, at various hospital sites around Cardiff, and at the offices and spaces of charitable and other organisations whose work was in the field of healthcare. The workshops themselves introduced participants to some basic writing tools which are common in the teaching of creative writing in Higher Education. The Off Sick Team owe thanks in particular to the creative writing lecturers at the University of Glamorgan for providing invaluable advice. During the workshops participants were given the opportunity to access their imaginative faculties via writing, images, and sounds.
NOV 2010
Off Sick at Lifestories, St Fagans National History Museum. As part of LifeStories, the Off Sick team ran talks and events focusing on narratives of illness to help people understand how stories can be used to understand experiences of medicine.
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