FMS Publications
Publications
2019
‘It’s for Fellows only!’: On the Postcolonial Stance of Matthew Brown’s Maths Film The Man Who Knew Infinity
by Norbert Schaffeld
Can it Be? Representations of
Science in 21st Century Fiction (eds.
Nina Engelhardt and Julia Hoydis) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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A Fictionalized Representation of Scientific Counter-Discourse: Jo Lendle’s Historical Science Novel Alles Land (2011)
by Norbert Schaffeld
The German Quarterly 92.1
(Winter 2019): 35-50.
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‘You bet she can fuck‘ – Sexroboter und künstliche Intelligenz
by Jennifer Henke
Tagungsband “’Robo Sapiens’? Roboter, Künstliche Intelligenz
und Transhumanismus in Literatur, Film und anderen Medien”. (Eds.: Dominik
Orth, Ingo Irslinger). Heidelberg. Winter 2019
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Representations of Science in 21st-Century Fiction. (Eds. Nina Englehardt and Julia Hoydis).
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 19-35.
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Verloren im Weltall. Ein neues Stereotyp der Wissenschaftlerin im Film am Beispiel von Contact (1997) und Gravity (2013)
by Jennifer Henke
Genre-Störungen. Schriftenreihe zur Textualität des Films.
(Eds.: John Bateman, Heinz-Peter Preußer and Sabine Schlickers). Marburg: Schüren. (in print)
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Contesting Spaces of Knowledge: Reproduction, Medicine and Literature
by Jennifer Henke
Contradiction Studies: Mapping
the Field/Inaugural Conference on Concepts
of Contradiction in the Humanities. (Eds.: Kerstin Knopf, Gisela
Febel, Ingo Warnke and Cordula
Nolte). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (in print)
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Spoiler Alert: Scott,
Science, and Forms of Reenactment in Contemporary Expedition Narratives
by Anna Auguscik
International Journal of English Studies 30.2 (2019):
47-64
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2018
Fiktionale Fakten: Wissenschaftskommunikation im Spiegel literarischer Rezeptionsprozesse
by Sonja Fücker and Uwe
Schimank
Knowledge in Action. Neue Formen der Kommunikation
in der
Wissensgesellschaft. (Eds. E. Lettkemann; R. Wilke; H. Knoblauch) Wiesbaden:
VS Verlag. 2018.
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The Sum of Our Parts: The Voices of the Human Genre Project
by Julia Boll
European Journal of English Studies
22.3 (2018): 317-330.
Abstract
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Knowing Plants, Knowing Form: Probing the Poetics of Phyto-Centric Life
by Natalie Roxburgh
and Felix Sprang
European Journal of English Studies 22.3 (2018): 224-240.
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co-edited by Anna-Katharina Hornidge
(Eds. Keller, Reiner, Hornidge, Anna-Katharina, Schünemann, Wolf) Oxon & New York: Routledge. 2018.
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A Research Vessel. Heterotopia, Boundary Place and Pluriverse of Epistemes
by
Anna-Katharina
Hornidge
Wissensrelationen.
Beiträge und Debatten zum 2. Sektionskongress der
Wissenssoziologie. (Eds. Poferl, Angelika and Pfadenhauer, Michaela), Weinheim:
Beltz
& Juventa, 2018.
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2017
Science as Comedy and the Myth of Progress in Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010)
by Katrin Berndt
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Literature 50.4.
(December 2017): 85-101.
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Is Knowledge Perfomative? Science/Stage: An Experiment in Performance Lectures
by Julia Boll
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. Special Issue: Doing Science (eds. Nina
Engelhardt and Julia Hoydis) (2017): 282-295.
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Mathematicians, Mysteries, and Mental Illnesses: The Stage-to-Screen Adaptation of Proof
by
Jennifer Henke, Norbert Schaffeld and Kati Voigt
Adaptation 10.3 (2017):
323-337.
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‘Ava’s body is a good one’: (Dis)Embodiment in Ex Machina
by Jennifer Henke
American, British, and Canadian Studies 29.1. (2018):
126-146.
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Marine Wissenschaftsforschung: FS Meteor als Ort interdisziplinärer Wissensproduktion
by
Anna-Katharina
Hornidge
Klüger
nutzen, besser schützen. Bremer Forschung an tropischen Küsten. (Eds. Hempel,
Gotthilf, Hempel, Irmtraud, Hornidge, Anna-Katharina) Bremen: Falkenberg Verlag, 2017.
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Triangulating the Two Cultures Entanglement: The Sciences and the Humanities in the Public Sphere
by Anton Kirchhofer and Anna Auguscik
Journal of Literature and Science 10.2 (2017): 26-37
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From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture
by Rosslyn HaynesBaltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 2017.
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2016
Universal Narrativity and the Anxious Scientist of the Contemporary Neuronovel
by Natalie Roxburgh, Anton
Kirchhofer, and Anna Auguscik
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Literature 49.4
(December 2016): 71-87.
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’The Things We Are’: Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things (1992) and the Science of Man
by Katrin Berndt
Anglica: An International Journal
of English Studies 25.1 (September
2016): 125-140.
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by
Luz Maria Hernandez Nieto
Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld (Dissertation)
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Der Buchtipp des Monats: Die Unglückseligen von Thea Dorn
by Uwe Sporl
Der Buchtipp des Monats, Literaturhaus
Bremen (Januar 2016)
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Im Liechtenstein des Denkens
by
Sina Farzin
Bruno Latours Soziologie
der "Existenzweisen": Einführung und Diskussion. (Ed. Henning
Laux), Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016.
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Die Existenzweise der Technik
by
Emanuel Herold
Bruno Latours Soziologie der
"Existenzweisen": Einführung und Diskussion. (Ed. Henning
Laux), Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016.
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edited by Norbert Schaffeld.
Special
Issue: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 64.2 (June 2016)
Table of Contents
Norbert Schaffeld - Aspects
of the Science Novel (121)
Roslynn D. Haynes – Bringing Science into Fiction (127)
Anton Kirchhofer and Natalie Roxburgh – The Scientist as ‘Problematic
Individual’ in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction (149)
Norbert Schaffeld – The Historical Science Novel and the Narrative of an
Emergent Scientific Discourse (169)
Nina Engelhardt – Scientific Metafiction and Postmodernism (189)
Sylvia Mayer – Science in the World Risk Society: Risk, the Novel, and Global
Climate Change (207)
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Gesellschaftliche Risikodiskurse durch die Linse der Literatur: Zur (inter-)subjektiven Deutung wissenschaftlichen Wissens in Reading Groups
by
Sonja Fücker and Uwe Schimank
Routinen der Krise - Krise der Routinen.
Verhandlungen des 37.
Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Soziologie. (Ed. Lessenich, Stephan)
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Von leuchtenden Hasen und sterbenden Menschen: Margaret Atwoods Roman Oryx and Crake als Wissenschaftsfolgenabschätzung
by
Emanuel Herold and Sina Farzin
Routinen der Krise - Krise der Routinen.
Verhandlungen des 37.
Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Soziologie. (Ed. Lessenich, Stephan)
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Die ‘offenen Objekte’ und ihre Gesellschaft: Zur Kritik der technischen Verhältnisse
by
Emanuel Herold
Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie 3.1
(2014): 151 - 181.
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Putting
Lifeworlds at
Sea: Studying Meaning-Making in Marine Research
by
Siriwardane-de
Zoysa, Rapti and
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina
Frontiers
in Marine Science 3:197
(2016)
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2015
Der Herrscher der Welt: Wie Mikroben unser Leben bestimmen
by
Bernhard Kegel
Köln: DuMont Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG,
2015.
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Are the Knowledge Wars Finally Over?
by Roslynn Haynes
Métode Science Studies Journal 5:
131-138.
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2014
Whatever Happened to the ‘Mad, Bad’ Scientist? Overturning the Stereotype
by Roslynn D, Haynes
in Public Understanding of Science 25.1 (January 2014): 31-44.
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Presentations
Presentations from FMS conferences, workshops, and public events are not listed here, but can be found in the programs on the events page.
2019
Anthropocene Enlightenments: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and Buddhist Philosophy
Presenter: Natalie RoxburghAnthropocene (Post)Humanities Workshop
Bavarian Academy for the Sciences and Humanities in Muenchen
10 September 2019
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Disinterestedness and Enlightenment
Presenter: Natalie RoxburghMainz University
4. July 2019
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Science’s Literary Turn: A Novelist’s and Scientist’s Perspective
Presenter: Susan M. GainesParadise on Fire, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 13th Annual Conference
University of California, Davis
26-30 June 2019
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Marine Science Cultures
Presenter: Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Mare Conference 2019
Amsterdam, Netherlands
25 – 28 June 2019
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Layers of SpaceTime in Contemporary Historical and Speculative Science
Narratives
European Society of Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Conference, ‘SpaceTime’
Athens, Greece
25 – 28 June 2019
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Transcultural Mobility of Scientists and Science in Amitav Ghosh’s The
Hungry Tide
Presenter: Karsten Levihn-Kutzler
Transculturality in the English-Speaking
World Workshop
University of Frankfurt
25 June 2019
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Bathtubs and Hungry Tides: Flood Fiction, Littoral Communities and the
Politics of Environmental Precariousness
Conference: Postcolonial Oceans – Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water
University of Bremen
30 May – 2 June 2019
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On the Gatekeepers of Science and the Importance of a Maths Community in Matthew Brown’s Film The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
Presenter:
Norbert Schaffeld
Conference:
Cardiff ScienceHumanities: International Summer School
Cardiff
University, UK
20
May 2019
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‘You bet she can fuck’ – Sexarbeit vs. Prostitution am Beispiel von Ex Machina
Presenter: Jennifer HenkeStudent conference: Grenzphänomene der Linguistik I: Porno?
University of Bremen
9 May 2019
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On the ‘Siting of Science’: Lab Life and its Subjects in the US-American TV Series Breaking Bad
Presenter: Martin Butler
British Society for Literature
and Science Conference
Royal Halloway London
4-6 April 2019
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Beyond the Cultural Stereotyping of Science: Power-Knowledge, Global Science and Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
Presenter: Anton KirchhoferBritish Society for Literature and Science Conference
Royal Halloway London
4-6 April 2019
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Producing Knowledge in and of the Arctic: Franklin’s Lost Expedition in Contemporary Historical Fiction
Presenter: Anna AuguscikThe British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference
London Royal Holloway
4-6 April 2019
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Postcolonial Fictions of Science and the Politics of Translation
Presenter: Karsten Levihn-KutzlerThe British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference
London Royal Holloway
4-6 April 2019
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Follow the Discourse. A (Methodological) Reflection of Tracing Sea Level Change Related Sense-Making
Presenter:
Anna-Katharina
Hornidge
Workshop
‘Shaping Migrants and Mobile Worlds’
National
University of Singapore, Institute of Sociology
21 – 22
February 2019
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Between Witchcraft and Protoscience: A ‘Reading’ of Julie Taymor’s The Tempest as Filmic Metatext
Presenter: Norbert SchaffeldLecture Series: Studying English-Speaking Cultures
University of Bremen
30 January 2019
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2018
Frankenstein and Disinterestedness
Presenter: Natalie RoxburghFrankenstein’s Legacy Workshop
Bremen University
21 December 2018
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Research Stations, Research Vessels. Bodily Communication in the Heart of Science
Presenter: Anna-Katharina HornidgeWorkshop ‘Kommunikation an den Grenzen – Grenzen der Kommunikation’
KWI Essen, Germany
15 – 16 November 2018
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Literature and Science
Presenter:
Norbert Schaffeld
Lecture
Series: Studying English-Speaking Cultures
University
of Bremen, Germany
14
November 2018
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‘The Baneful and Bloodstained Monster’ – Frankenstein and Political Cartoons
Presenter: Jennifer HenkeFrankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies
Arts University Bournemouth
31 October – 1 November 2018
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Transmedia Storytelling – Frankenstein and Visual Culture
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Frankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference
exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies
Arts University Bournemouth
31
October – 1 November 2018
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Sexroboter und künstliche Intelligenz – die Apotheose der Verdinglichung?
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Interdisziplinäre Tagung „‘Robo Sapiens‘? Roboter,
Künstliche Intelligenz und Transhumanismus in Literatur, Film und anderen Medien“
University of Kiel, Germany
26 – 28 September 2018
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What Form Knows: The Literary Text as Framework, Model, and Experiment
Presenters: Dr. Natalie Roxburgh (Siegen), Dr. Irmtraud Huber (Bern),
Dr. Wolfgang Funk (Mainz)
Anglistentag 2018
University of Bonn, Germany
23 – 26 September 2018
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Knowing Antarctica: Expedition Novels as Forms of Literary Re-Enactment
Presenter: Anna AuguscikAnglistentag 2018
University of Bonn, Germany
23-26 Sept 2018
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Medication and Social Optimization in Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Substance
Conference
Edge Hill University
13-14 September 2018
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Marine Wissenschaftsforschung – und ein Forschungsschiff als Ort interdisziplinärer Wissensproduktion
Presenter:
Anna-Katharina
Hornidge
Jahrestagung
der Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin
und der Technik
Panel: ‘Umweltwissen Meer: Marine
Wissenschaftskulturen in interdisziplinärer Perspektive’
Universität
Bochum, Germany
12 – 14
September 2018
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Exploring Global Dimensions of the History of Science in Expedition Narratives
Presenter: Anna Auguscik
3rd International Conference on Science and Literature
Sorbonne Université, Paris
2-4 July 2018
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Fictional Science Narratives and the ‘Globalisation of Knowledge’: Joseph Manu’s Serious Men (2010)
Presenter: Anton KirchhoferCoSciLit: Commission on Science and Literature, 3rd Conference
Sorbonne Université, Paris
2-4 July 2018
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Monstrous Medicine – Obstetrics in Literature and Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Arbeitskreis Cultural Studies
University of
Braunschweig, Germany
30 June 2018
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Rethinking Plants
Presenters: Natalie Roxburgh, Felix Sprang and Julia Shirley
Agency and Poetics
Workshop
Siegen, Deutschland
24 May 2018
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Assessing the Posthuman Condition through Alex Garland’s Ex_Machina
Presenter: Natalie RoxburghHamburg University
7 May 2018
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Violent Medicine: Abortion and the Non-Transfer of Knowledge between the Old and the New World
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
32nd
European Association for American Studies and 63rd British Association
for American Studies
University College London
04 – 07 April 2018
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Science Novels in Transcultural Contexts: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Manu Joseph’s Serious Men
Presenter: Anna AuguscikThe British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference
Oxford Brookes
April 2018
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Science Characters in Transcultural Contexts: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Presenter: Anton KirchhoferThe British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference
Oxford Brookes
April 2018
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Faszination Frankenstein: Wer ist hier das Monster?
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Vortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe science
goes public
Tequila Bar Bremen, Germany
08 March 2018
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The Girlfriend Experience: (Ro)Bots, Gender and Technology in Ex Machina
(2015) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Gender, Culture, Feminsim Lecture Series
University of Bremen
2018
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2017
The Madwoman in Science – Gender and Stereotypes in Literature and Film
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Gastvortrag im Seminar “Staging Science: Mathematics
and Theatre“
University of Leipzig, Germany
11 December 2017
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Pluriversality or Contradictory Epistemes aboard a Scientific Research Vessel?
Presenter:
Anna-Katharina
Hornidge
Biannual Congress of the Association of German Knowledge Sociologists
Universität
Bochum, Germany
25
September
2017
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Technik – Körper – Feminismus: Zur filmischen Inszenierung des weiblichen Cyborgs
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Gastvortrag im Seminar: „Gesundheit und digitale
Medien. Techniksoziologische Einführung für methodische und theoretische Annäherungen
an eHealth“
FB11 Public Health/ Gesundheitswissenschaften
University of
Bremen, Germany
7 July 2017
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Turning Over the Turing Test: Singularity and Ex_Machina
Presenters: Natalie Roxburgh
and Felix Sprang
European Society for Literature, Science, and
the Arts Conference
Basel University
21-24 June 2017
Empathy and the Scientist Reviewer: Critical Perspectives on Scientist Characters in Contemporary Fiction
Presenter: Anna AuguscikEMPATHIES: 11th SLSAeu Conference
University of Basel
21-24 June 2017
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Fictional Science Narratives and their Global Dimensions: Media Spheres of the ‘Transcultural Science Novel’
Presenter: Anna AuguscikNarrating Science: The Power of Stories in the 21st Century
Toronto
24-27 May 2017
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’It stopped the sensations of new-born life’ – Plants, Potions and Pregnancy
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Workshop: “Rethinking Plants – Agency and Poetics”
University of Siegen, Germany
27 April 2017
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Contextualizing the Maternal Body: Obstetrics in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
The British Society for Literature and Science Annual
Conference
University of Bristol, UK
6 – 8 April 2017
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Fantasies of Control: Genetics and the Fates of Scientists in Contemporary Fiction
Presenters: Anna Auguscik, Anton KirchhoferThe British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference
University of Bristol
April 2017
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Von Erzschurken und Superhelden der Forschung. Narrative der Wissenschaft in der Fiktion
Presenters: Luz María Hernández, Peter Weingart
Lecture Series: Science.Super.Stars
University of Göttingen, Germany
9 March 2017
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Intersubjective Reception – The Communicative Construction of Meaning in
Reading Groups
Presenter: Sonja Fücker
Conference: Reception
of Literature in Reading Communities. Social
Reading face to face and online
Robert Musil-Institut der Alpen-Adria-Universität
Klagenfurt, Germany
1 – 3
March 2017
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Science in Literary and Mainstream Fiction: A New Wave
Presenters: Susan M. Gaines, with Nancy Lord, Jean Hegland,
Kathleen Dean Moore, and Michael Byers
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Convention
Washington D.C., USA
8 – 11 February 2017
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Spaces of Knowledge: Gender, Class, and Medicine
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Tagung: “Contradiction Studies: Mapping the Field
/ Inaugural Conference on Concepts of Contradiction in the Humanities”
University
of Bremen, Germany
08 – 11 February 2017
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Exploring the Other, Excavating the Self: Representations of Archaeological Digs in Contemporary Expedition Novels
Presenter: Anna Auguscik
Writing Remains: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
on Archaeology and Literature
University of Bristol
20 January 2017
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Gender and Science: An Intersectional Reading of Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable
Creatures
Inaugural Conference: Contradiction Studies – Mapping the Field
University of Bremen
2017
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2016
Studying the Body in Literature and Film
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Ringvorlesung „Gender – Kultur – Feminismus”
University of Bremen, Germany
14 December 2016
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Dea Ex Machina – The Body of the Cyborg Goddess
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Workshop: “Encoding the Future: Perspectives on
the Making of the ‘Human’ in Ex_Machina”
University of Siegen, Germany
1
– 2 December 2016
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In Search of a Common Problem: Matching Interests in Research Collaborations across the Two Cultures
Presenter: Anna Auguscik, Anton KirchhoferScience Humanities Colloquium
Cardiff University
3 December 2016
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Form and Disinterestedness
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Discourses of Modernity Seminar
Sapienza
University in Rome, Italy
13 November 2016
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Cognition, Pharmacology, and Fiction in a Society of Control
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
CONTROL:
10th Conference of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Stockholm,
Sweden
14 – 17 June 2016
Abstract
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Canons and Critical Profils of the Contemporary ‘Science Novel’: Perspectives on Genres, Markets and Media Presence
Presenters: Anna Auguscik and Kanton Kirchhofer
Conference: British Society
for Literature and Science – Annual Conference 2016
University of Birmingham,
UK
7 – 9 April 2016
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The Rise of the Pharmacological Novel?
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Conference: British Society for Literature and
Science – Annual Conference 2016
University of Birmingham, UK
7 – 9 April
2016
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Fiktionale Fakten: Wissenschaftskommunikation im Spiegel literarischer Rezeptionsprozesse
Presenters: Sonja Fücker and Uwe Schimank
Conference: Knowledge in Action:
Neue Formen der Kommunikation in der Wissensgesellschaft
Berlin, Germany
28 – 29 January 2016
Abstract
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2015
The Narrative of Emergent Scientific Discourse and
the Historical Science Novel
Presenter: Norbert Schaffeld
Conference: Doing
Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices
University of Cologne, Germany
20 –
21 November 2015
Abstract
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Is Knowledge Performative? Science/Stage: An Experiment in Performance
Lectures
Presenter: Julia Boll
Conference: Doing
Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices
University of Cologne, Germany
20 –
21 November 2015
Abstract
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Was sind technotemporale Regime? Ein Dialog zwischen soziologischer Theorie und spekulativer Literatur
Presenter: Emanuel Herold
Social Theory Colloquium / Neuere
Entwicklungen in der Gesellschaftstheorie
Jena, Germany
18 November
2015
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The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Carlyle’s Trope of the ‘Mechanism’
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Conference: The Poetics of Knowledge
University
of Bern, Switzerland
5 – 7 November 2015
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The Sum of Our Parts: the Voices of the Human Genre Project
Julia Boll
Conference: The Poetics of Knowledge
University
of Bern, Switzerland
5 – 7 November 2015
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Re-Thinking the Image of the Scientist in Fiction
Presenter: Roslynn HaynesHanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst
28 October 2015
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’Lost in space’ – Zur Stereotypisierung von Wissenschaftlerinnen im zeitgenössischen Kino
Presenter: Jennifer Henke.
Workshop: Geschlecht und Raum:
Imagination und Materialität des (unzugänglichen) Raumes
Forum Junge Kulturwissenschaften
Mainz; Arbeitskreis für
Historische Frauen und Geschlechterforschung (AKHFG)
University of Mainz, Germany
22 – 24 October 2015
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The Object's Voice: Literature's Attempt to Create Subjectivity
Presenter: Julia Boll
Symposium: Dying Well: Enacting Medical
Ethics
Bart's Pathology Museum, London, UK
25 – 26 September 2015
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Fictional Drugs and the Science of Addiction in Contemporary Novels
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
7th Annual Critical
Finance Studies Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark
20 – 21 August 2015
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The Dancing Bee
Presenter: Julia Boll
Public Performance Lecture with Prof. Dr. Giovanni Galizia
(Zoology/Biology) and Christiana Rosenberg-Ahlhaus (Dance/Sports)
Lecture Series:
Science/Stage: An Experiment
University of Konstanz, Germany
16 July 2015
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Schroedinger’s Stage
Presenter: Julia Boll
Public Performance Lecture with Dr. Gianluca Rastelli
(Theoretical Physics)
Lecture Series: Science/Stage: An Experiment
University
of Konstanz, Germany
26 June 2015
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Rewriting the Experimental Script
Presenter: Julia Boll
Public Performance Lecture with Dr. Andreas Thum (Neurobiology)
Lecture Series: Science/Stage: An Experiment
University of Konstanz, Germany
29 May 2015
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Möglichkeitsdenken. Literarische Dystopien als Gesellschaftskritik?
Presenter: Sina Farzin
Forschungskolloquium
LMU München, Germany
21 May 2015
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Is that Your Microbiome Trying to Take Over?
Presenter: Julia Boll
Public Performance Lecture with Dr. Thomas Böttcher
(Biochemistry)
Lecture Series: Science/Stage: An Experiment
University of
Konstanz, Germany
19 May 2015
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Zur
Kritik der technischen Verhältnisse: Grundlinien einer Kritischen Theorie der
Technik im Anschluss an Gilbert Simondon
Presenter: Emanuel Herold
Arbeitstagung der Sektion Universität
Oldenburg, Soziologische Theorie
Oldenburg, Germany
8 – 9 May 2015
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Solid Geometry, Aesthetic Intuition, and Truth Approximation in John Banville’s Novel Kepler
Presenter: Norbert Schaffeld
Conference: British Society for Literature and
Science Tenth Annual Conference 2015
Liverpool, UK
16 – 18 April 2015
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Visions of the Immoral Scientist: Morality and the Perception of Science
in Ian McEwan’s Solar and other Contemporary Climate Chance Stories
Presenters: Anton Kirchhofer and Anna Auguscik
Conference: British Society for
Literature and Science Tenth Annual Conference 2015
University of Liverpool,
UK
16 – 18 April 2015
Abstract
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Shedding Light on the Scientist: Character and Quantum Theory in Properties
of Light
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Conference: British Society for Literature and Science
Tenth Annual Conference 2015
University of Liverpool, UK
16 – 18 April 2015
Abstract
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Bild der Chemie in der
Gesellschaft
Panel: Peter Weingart, Holgar
Wormer, and Jürgen Hampel
Tagung Chemie und Gesellschaft
Deutsches Museum
München, Germany
17 April 2015
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Nerd Novels: Exploring Worlds of Knowledge in Fiction
Presenters: Susan M. Gaines, Jean Hegland, Michael Byers, Peter Mountford
Conference:
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
Minneapolis, MN USA
8 – 11 April 2015
Abstract
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Die
Möglichkeit anderer Welten. Naturwissenschaftliche Utopien/Dystopien als
Gesellschaftskritik?
Presenter: Sina Farzin
Universität Bonn/FIW, Germany
7 April 2015
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Objects of Scientific Inquiry: The Question of Ethics in Contemporary Literature on Science
Presenter: Julia Boll
Research Day Professor Aleida Assmann
University
of Konstanz, Germany
13 February 2015
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Nach der Krise. Naturwissenschaftliche Krisennarrative im dystopischen Kino der Gegenwart
Presenter: Sina Farzin
Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Kino
und Krise"
JLU Gießen, Germany
12 February 2015
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Fiction Meets Science: Readings and Musings from a Nerd Novel Author
Presenter: Susan M. Gaines
Public Lecture at the Zukunftskolleg
University
of Constance, Germany
11 February 2015
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Monstrous Medicine, Monstrous Bodies – The Culture of Science in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Invited
Lecture
University of Hamburg, Germany
16 January 2015
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2014
Von leuchtenden Hasen und sterbenden Menschen: Margaret Atwoods Roman Oryx and Crake als Wissenschaftsfolgenabschätzung
Presenters: Sina Farzin and Emanuel Herold
Conference: 37. Kongress der Deutschen
Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Trier, Germany
6 – 10 October 2014
Abstract
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Gesellschaftliche Risikodiskurse durch die Linse der Literatur: Zur (inter-) subjektiven Deutung wissenschaftlichen Wissens in 'Reading Groups'
Presenter:
Sonja Fücker
Conference:
37. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Trier, Germany
6
– 10 October 2014
Abstract
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Lonely Heroines, Old Maids, and Babe Scientists: Female Science on Screen
Presenter:
Jennifer Henke
Conference: 6th
International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science
Lisbon,
Portugal
4 – 6 September 2014
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Comic Strategies and the Communication of Science in Contemporary British Novels
Presenter: Katrin Berndt
Conference: 6th International
Conference of the European Society for the History of Science
Lisbon, Portugal
4 – 6 September 2014
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Dystopian Visions of Technology: Graphic Literature and Genetics
Presenter:
Jennifer Henke
Conference: Future Visions: Speculation and Anticipation in Graphic
Narratives
Bayreuth, Germany
11 July 2014
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‘A Loving Economy’: Nursing, Scientific Progress, and Totalitarian Ideology in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things (1992)
Presenter:
Katrin Berndt
Conference: World Congress of Scottish Literatures
Glasgow,
UK
2 – 5 July 2014
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On Responsibility and Response-ability in Contemporary Literature on Science
Presenter: Julia Boll
Conference: Life,
in Theory. European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Turin,
Italy
3 – 6 June 2014
Abstract
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Beyond Metaphor: Science as Subject in the Contemporary Literary Novel
Presenter: Susan M. Gaines
Conference: Inaugural Conference of ELINAS: Erlangen
Center for Literature and Natural Sciences
Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization
Erlangen,
Germany
29 May – 1 June 2014
Abstract
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Between Genius and Dummy, Good and Evil, Rotwang, Frankenstein and Wernher von Braun: The Portrayal of Scientists in the TV-Cartoon Kim Possible
Presenter: Luz Maria Hernández Nieto
Conference: 13th International Public
Communication of Science and Technology Conference
Salvador, Brazil
5 –
8 May 2014
Abstract and Paper
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Neuroscience, Anxiety and Meta-Narrative in Recent British Neuronovels: David Lodge’s Thinks… and Ian McEwan’s Saturday
Presenters: Anton Kirchhofer and Anna Auguscik
Conference: British Society
for Literature and Science Ninth Annual Conference 2014
Surrey, UK
10 –
12 April 2014
Abstract
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'Only before the cut, they imagine we imagined them': The Question of Ethics in Contemporary Literature on Science
Presenter: Julia Boll
Conference: British Society for Literature and Science
Ninth Annual Conference 2014
Surrey, UK
10 – 12 April 2014
Abstract
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Richard Powers' Anxious Neuroscientists
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Conference: The British Society for Literature
and Science Ninth Annual Conference 2014
Surrey, UK
10 – 12 April 2014
Abstract
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'In the beginning is the shape': Maths, Aesthetics, and Narrative Form in John Banville's Novel Kepler
Presenter: Norbert Schaffeld
Conference: The Common Denominator - A Postgraduate
Conference in British Cultural Studies
Leipzig, Germany
20 – 22 March 2014
Abstract
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2013
(R)Evolution im Comic?
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Conference: 8th COMFOR conference on Comics und
Naturwissenschaften
Erlangen, Germany
15 – 17 November 2013
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Disturbing Science. Darwin's Origins - A Graphic Adaptation
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Conference: 8th Annual Conference of the Association
of Adaptation Studies
Växjö, Sweden
26 – 27 September 2013
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Narrating the Two Cultures in Ian McEwan’s Solar
Presenter: Anton Kirchhofer
Conference: International Conference on Narrative
2013
Manchester, UK
27 – 29 June 2013
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Reviewing the Two Cultures: Discussing Contemporary Fiction in Nature
Presenter: Anna Auguscik
Conference: International Conference on Narrative
2013
Manchester, UK
27 – 29 June 2013
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The Varieties of Narrative in David Lodge's Thinks...
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Conference: International Conference on Narrative
2013
Manchester, UK
27 – 29 June 2013
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Wissenschaft im Comic
Presenter: Jennifer Henke
Conference: Comic-Kolloquium der Arbeitsstelle für
Graphische Literatur (ArGL)
Hamburg, Germany
30 May 2013
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Revisiting the “Gulf of Mutual Incomprehension” – Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on the ‘Two Cultures’ Problem
Presenter: Anton Kirchhofer
Conference: The British Society for Literature
and Science Eighth Annual Conference 2013
Cardiff, UK
11 – 13 April 2013
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The Human in Nature: The Role of Literature, the Human and the Two Cultures in Leading Science Journals
Presenter: Anna Auguscik
Conference: The British Society for Literature and
Science Eighth Annual Conference 2013
Cardiff, UK
11 – 13 April 2013
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How to be a Scientist and be Human at the Same Time
Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Conference: The British Society for Literature
and Science Eighth Annual Conference 2013
Cardiff, UK
11 – 13 April 2013
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2012
The Human in Science and Literature – Historic and Contemporary Perspectives
Presenters: Anton Kirchhofer and Anna Auguscik
Conference: 11th Annual European
Society for the Study of English Conference
Istanbul, Turkey
4 – 8 September
2012
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The Role of Fiction in Multi-disciplinary Science Journals: A Structured Survey (1990-2010)
Presenters: Anton Kirchhofer and Anna Auguscik
Conference: The British Society
for Literature and Science Eighth Annual Conference 2012
Oxford, UK
12
– 14 April 2012
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The Representation of Emergent Scientific Discourses and Modes of Control in Contemporary Science Novels
Presenter: Norbert Schaffeld
Conference: British Society for Literature
and Science Eighth Annual Conference 2012
Oxford, UK
12 – 14 April 2012
Abstract