IN ASSOCIATION WITH FICTION MEETS SCIENCE, BREMEN UNIVERSITY

Keynote speaker: Professor Anna-Katharina HorniDGE (Bonn)

HWK Institute for Advanced Study |  (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg)  |  Delmenhorst GERMANY

MONDAY 3 JUNE – FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024

Seminars by leading figures from: Literature and Science, History of Science/Medicine, Critical Theory, Blue Humanities, Environmental Humanities

Workshops on: Publishing and a networking event for Early Career Academics

The ScienceHumanities Summer School: Postgraduate, International, and Free

In 2024, the Cardiff ScienceHumanities group partners with the Fiction Meets Science Program and the Bremen Blue Humanities Research Group, to host the summer school at their home base in Germany. The theme for 2024 is the “Blue Humanities.”

The ScienceHumanities Summer School features a week of workshops with leading scholars in the Blue Humanities and Environmental Humanities who have trained in a diverse array of disciplines—literature, history, philosophy, sociology, environmental science—and are doing research at the cross-section of the humanities and sciences. Students have the opportunity to engage with experienced researchers and a select cohort of peers from around the world, attending workshops around the theme of energies and career issues. Speakers include Steve Mentz, Kerstin Knopf, Owain Lawson, and Mohammed Muharram with areas covered in the workshop include: interdisciplinary working, indigenous knowledge and literature, weather shocks and water, freshwater and the blue humanities, etc.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to share ideas, concepts and methods with other doctoral students and begin to build a network of global contacts. The Summer School also incorporates career-shaping activities and a cultural programme focussed on the rich heritage of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The Summer School is open only to doctoral students and postdoctorial researchers (within 12 months of the award of their PhD) located in universities and research centres worldwide. There are only 12 places available.

It is free to attend, but participants must be able to meet the cost of their own travel, accommodation and part of their subsistence during their stay. Advice will be given on accommodation and transport and what meals will be included during the Summer School. 

To express initial interest and receive an application form please email Professor Keir Waddington on waddingtonk@cardiff.ac.uk. 

The closing date for expressions of interest is Friday 23 February, with completed application forms due by Friday March 22. Decisions will be communicated early April 2024. Participating doctoral students must be able to commit to the full 5 days of the Summer School.