L. Syd M Johnson (HU) gave a flash talk and presented a poster on “The Catch-22 of CTE: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues,” and presented a poster co-authored with Adam Shriver (Penn) on “Preliminary Report from the Penn Animal Research Neuroethics Workshop” at the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting in San Diego.

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.