The BARS Review (British Association for Romantic Studies) published Dana Van Kooy’s (HU) two-book review of William Brewer’s “Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters (2015) and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon’s New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World” (2014).
Laura Kasson Fiss (HU, Pavlis Honors College) presented a paper entitled “Clubs for the Unclubbable: Humor and Literary Sociability among Doyle, Zangwill, and Others” at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
On Nov. 3-6, Andrew Fiss (HU), Shelly Galliah (HU) and Anna Swartz (HU) presented research papers in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of the joint meetings of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA), the History of Science Society (HSS), and the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA).
Fiss presented as part of the panels titled “The Gendered Body: Medicine and Biology in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” and “Performing Science,” the Womenss Caucus feature about the intersections of theater and STEM education.
Galliah presented “John Oliver’s ‘Real Climate Change Debate’: Creatively Using Comedy to Intervene on a Manufactured Scientific Controversy,” as part of a panel about “Wild Learning.”
Swartz presented “The CSI Effect: Are Jurors Starstruck by Forensic Science?” which contributed to the panel about “History, Science, and their Publics.”
This travel was partially supported by the History of Science Society and the Department of Humanities.
If you’re interested in studying abroad this summer, you may be interested in Crossing Borders: Study Abroad this Summer 2017 in Cumbria, England. Stop by the program information session on November 16 from 4-5 pm in Walker 134.
As part of the Humanities Colloquium Series, Michele Speitz, professor, Furman University, will lead a seminar discussion of three essays: Langdon Winner’s “Technologies as Forms of Life,” John Tresch’s “Introduction to The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon” and Susanne Stratling and Jocelyn Holland’s “Introduction: Aesthetics of the Tool—Technologies, Figures and Instruments of Literature and Art.”
This seminar is from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 10) in Wadsworth Hall’s Cherry Room.
For copies of these articles, contact Dana Van Kooy. Refreshments will be provided.
A paper by L. Syd M Johnson (HU), “Death by Neurological Criteria: Expert Definitions and Lay Misgivings,” has been published in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine.
Hop on board the Flow Train for a ride into smooth writing from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 in the MTMC (Walker 107). This presentation will cover the basics of how to make your paper glide: transitions, sentence structure and vocabulary use.
Laura Kasson Fiss (HU, Pavlis Honors College) published an article entitled “‘The Idler’s Club’: Humor and Sociability in the Age of New Journalism” Victorian Periodicals Review 49, No. 3 (2016). You can read the article here.
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) was in Washington DC for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities annual meeting Oct. 6-9.
She presented “Dead Wrong: Inference, Uncertainty, and Inductive Risk” in a panel session with Robert Truog (Harvard) and John Banja (Emory).
She also co-chaired the meetings of the Neuroethics Affinity Group and the Animal Bioethics Affinity Group.
Stuart Hall, one of the most prominent and influential scholars of cultural studies internationally, delivered eight foundational lectures on the theoretical history of cultural studies at the University of Illinois in 1983. After his death in 1914, Hall’s widow authorized publication of those lectures, which were recorded by Jennifer Daryl Slack (HU).
Slack, along with Lawrence Grossberg from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, transcribed, edited and wrote an introduction to these lectures. The lectures have been published by Duke University Press under the title “Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History.”