science and culture

The University of Wolverhampton, UK

                                                                            Saturday 1 February, 2020

The Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research (CTTR) presents:

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro

Contributions by, amongst others:

Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin, UK)

Andrew Bennett (Bristol, UK)

Christine Berberich (Portsmouth, UK)

Max Berghege (Wolverhampton, UK)

From kingdoms staking claims on opposing riverbanks to landowners arguing over a thorny hedge, transitional environments have long formed the foundations for political and social boundaries. Such material anchors in turn may be claimed to demonstrate the natural legitimacy of these borders and the institutions they define. Yet medieval literature, art, and popular culture overflows with depictions of such ecotones – water to land, mountain to plain, forest to field – that test both the permanence and permeability of the categories and divisions humans impose on their surroundings (and themselves).

CFP (SCMS 2020) Screening Ourselves: Mediation, Exemplars of Difference, and Cultural Transformation

Digital media proliferates, in part, because it allows individuals to adopt, inhabit, revise, and project their ways of being. Liking, saving, and sharing digital objects shapes our personal and social lives, and has transformed what it means to see and be seen, to garner and wield cultural influence. By self-reflexively mediating ourselves in cultural artifacts, what political claims are we adopting about how the world is, or should be? Which lives are screenable, or screened? 

The 9th edition of the New Perspectives in Science Education Conference will take place in Florence, Italy, on 19 - 20 March 2020.

The objective of the Conference is to promote transnational cooperation and share good practice in the field of innovation for science education. The New Perspectives in Science Education Conference is also an excellent opportunity for the presentation of previous and current projects in the science field.            

The Call for Papers is addressed to teachers, researchers and experts in the field of science education as well as to coordinators of science and training projects.

What makes a man a man? How is masculinity shaped by spaces, times, languages, and cultures? How are men expected to behave in public and in private? In addition to addressing these questions, the panel would like to explore the concept of masculinity and how this is constructed by social contexts and human relationships. To this day, numerous men are profoundly impacted by adolescent experiences, peer pressure, and expectations based on “male gender roles.” This session invites contributions about literature, theater, film, and other symbolic productions in Italy as related to the complex topic of masculinity.