FMS Publications

Presentations from FMS conferences, workshops, and public events are not listed here, but can be found in the programs on the events page.

2020

Not Just Birds, Not Just Science, Not Just Politics 

Presenter: Susan M. Gaines (with others)
Natural History Institute virtual event
International
16 July 2020
Watch recording online

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Nerd Novels: A Different Kind of Escape

Presenter: Susan M. Gaines with Jean Hegland
Litquake on Lockdown
San Francisco, CA USA
26 May 2020
Watch recording online

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Uncommon Knowledge: Researching and Writing Nerd Novels

Presenter: Susan M. Gaines (and others)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
Henry B. González Convention Center, San Antonio, TX
4-7 March 2020

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2019

Anthropocene Stories

Presenters: Jaspreet Singh, Susan M. Gaines, et. al
Calgary Public Library
Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
17 November 2019

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Anthropocene Enlightenments: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and Buddhist Philosophy

Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Anthropocene (Post)Humanities Workshop
Bavarian Academy for the Sciences and Humanities in Muenchen
10 September 2019

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Disinterestedness and Enlightenment

Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Mainz University
4 July 2019

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Science’s Literary Turn: A Novelist’s and Scientist’s Perspective

Presenter: Susan M. Gaines
Paradise 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

Presenter: Anton Kirchhofer
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

Presenter: Karsten Levihn-Kutzler
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 Henke
Student 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 Kirchhofer
British 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 Auguscik
The 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-Kutzler
The 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 Schaffeld
Lecture Series: Studying English-Speaking Cultures
University of Bremen
30 January 2019
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2018

Frankenstein and Disinterestedness

Presenter: Natalie Roxburgh
Frankenstein’s Legacy Workshop
Bremen University
21 December 2018

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In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (by Sarah Ruhl)

Presenter and Organizer: Jennifer Henke
Bremen English Theatre, Cake & Conflict Series
Kulturzentrum Kukoon, Bremen
25 November 2018

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Research Stations, Research Vessels. Bodily Communication in the Heart of Science

Presenter: Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Workshop ‘Kommunikation an den Grenzen – Grenzen der Kommunikation’
KWI Essen, Germany
15 – 16 November 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 Auguscik
Anglistentag 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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2017

’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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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

Presenter: Christine Müller
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 Kirchhofer
Science 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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Zeitschriften der Utopie. Zur Konstruktion historischer Zeit in spekulativer Literatur

Presenter: Emanuel Herold
Conference: Utopisch Dystopisch. Visionen einer ‘idealen’ Gesellschaft
University of Hildesheim, Germany
8 October 2016
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Klimawandel im literarischen Interdiskurs: Zum Verhältnis von Fakt und Fiktion in zeitgenössischer ‘Climate Change Fiction’

Presenters: Emanuel Herold and Sina Farzin
Conference: Geschlossene Gesellschaften, 38. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
University of Bamberg, Germany
28 September 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
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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
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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 Haynes
Hanse-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 

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
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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