Call for Papers

WORLDS and WORDS

29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities

Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities

Carrollton, Georgia

October 30-November 1, 2014

Deadline Extended until July 22nd

We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]

Please accept my apologies, Joe Lockard. It was my first time using this forum.

Private correspondence resulting from a CFP is inconsiderate use of a shared common forum.  These messages go to 155 forum participants, not simply to the corresponding parties.  Thanks for understanding.

Dear Prof. Whitney,

Thank you for your prompt reply and especially for your interest in this project. Your proposal sounds very promising as no viable notion of the good life can be conceived without taking into account its complicated relationship with economic growth. If I’m not mistaken, The Skidelskys, whom I cite in my brief descri…[Read more]

Hi Laura,

Thanks for developing this topic.  I would be interested in writing on “the good life” as it is addressed by economists and others offering proposals about how to deal with global warming, particularly concerning attitudes toward future economic growth.  In my admittedly limited experience, mainstream economists don’t go much beyond t…[Read more]

http://users.dakotacom.net/~glomc/NEH/HeavenTalkPT1.pptx

I thought some of you who have posted might like to see the power point I have been using to speak to groups about our film project. This is the older version, centered upon Galileo and Shakespeare but i think you will find it fun to view. I am thinking of adding chapter two–the plot thickens with the Shakespearean scholars vs. astronomers who…[Read more]

An April issue of New Scientist had an article on Shakespeare and his understanding of astronomy. It mentioned many of the points you make. Just an FYI.

http://www.newscientist.com/special/shakespeare

Yes, Nancy, my husband brought that article to my attention and that is the article that made me think it may be more useful to pose the issue of…[Read more]

An April issue of New Scientist had an article on Shakespeare and his understanding of astronomy. It mentioned many of the points  you make. Just an FYI.

http://www.newscientist.com/special/shakespeare

Yes, as I understand it, tension needs to build up to the climax, which may be a confrontation. This will provide the framework for a discussion of evidence. It sounds as if you need a good opener to set the theme–maybe a staged modern argument between scholars?

You might want to study the script of a BBC documentary, maybe on Darwin, for…[Read more]

Thanks, Lila. I will keep that in mind. I am stepping back from the F2F meeting of Galileo and Will Shakespeare to focus on why Shakespeareans get apoplexy over the attempts of astronomers who attempt to read Hamlet (Peter Usher), for example as containing clues to Shakespeare’s knowledge of “the new philosophy” of Copernicus’ heliocentric solar…[Read more]

For a film, you need a narrative arc. This can be a challenge when dramatizing science history and that is something to keep in mind.

I work in 18th and 19th century women’s natural history travel narratives. Some of these accounts may be potentially filmable and I was recently approached by one producer recently for a Biopic. But I would have to…[Read more]

Hi Gloria,

Yes, that does make more sense.  The period is earlier than mine–I work in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a  focus on Romantic poets and “scientists.” Certainly, the moment has come for consilience.  I think a film that shows how the past couple hundred  years are relatively unique in our aggressive separation of the…[Read more]

A project that crosses the arts and the sciences sounds like an interesting one if there is a focus relevant to current issues. I have to bridge the two daily. I have a Ph.D. in chemistry and an M.A. in creative writing and teach both chemistry and writing classes. I find the cultural differences between workers in the sciences and humanities…[Read more]