Tagungen und Workshops
Workshops, Tagungen und Symposien
- Schaffeld, Norbert, Keir Waddington, and Martin Willis. “Summer School: Blue Humanities,” Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, 3-7 June 2024.
- Knopf, Kerstin, with Mohammed Muharram, Paula von Gleich, Keir Waddington, and Martin Willis. “Bremen-Cardiff Research Alliance in the Blue Humanities – An Interdisciplinary Workshop,” Cardiff University, 6-10 November 2023.
- Schaffeld, Norbert, Keir Waddington, and Martin Willis. “Bremen-Cardiff Alliance: Workshop on Interdisciplinarity and the Blue Humanities,” University of Bremen, 6 July 2023.
- Knopf, Kerstin, with Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Michi Knecht, Thomas Stolz, Ingo Warnke: “Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water,” annual conference of GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) and IACPL (International Association for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics), University of Bremen, 30 May-2 June 2019.
Blue Humanities: ScienceHumanities International Summer School 2024
IN ASSOCIATION WITH FICTION MEETS SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN
HWK Institute for Advanced Study (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg) | Delmenhorst GERMANY
MONDAY 3 JUNE – FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024
Organizers:
Norbert Schaffeld, University of Bremen
Keir Waddington, Cardiff University
Martin Willis, Cardiff University
Keynote Speaker: Steve Mentz (St John’s University)
Seminars by leading figures from: Environmental Humanities, Literature and Science, History of Science, History of Medicine, Philosophy of Science
Workshops on: Publishing; Academic Careers
The ScienceHumanities Summer School: Postgraduate, International, and Free
In 2024, the Cardiff ScienceHumanities group partnered with the Fiction Meets Science Program and Bremen Blue Humanities Research Group to host the Summer School at their home base in Germany. The theme for 2024 was the “Blue Humanities.”
The ScienceHumanities Summer School 2024 featured a week of workshops with leading scholars in the Blue Humanities and Environmental Humanities who have trained in a diverse array of disciplines—literature, history, philosophy, sociology, environmental science—and are doing research at the cross-section of the humanities and sciences. Students had the opportunity to engage with experienced researchers and a select cohort of peers from around the world, attending workshops around the theme of Blue humanities and career issues. Speakers included Steve Mentz,Stewart Mottram, Kerstin Knopf, Owain Lawson, Mohammed Muharram, Martin Willis, Keir Waddington, Jennifer Henke, and Paula von Gleich. Areas covered in the workshop included: interdisciplinary working, Indigenous knowledge and literature, weather shocks and water, freshwater and the blue humanities, etc.
In addition, students had the opportunity to share ideas, concepts and methods with other doctoral students and to build a network of global contacts. The Summer School also incorporated career-shaping activities and a cultural programme focussed on the rich heritage of Bremen and Bremerhaven.
The Summer School was open to 12 doctoral students and postdoctorial researchers (within 12 months of the award of their PhD) located in universities and research centres worldwide. It was free to attend, but participants had to meet the cost of their own transport, accommodation and part of their subsistence during their stay at the HWK Institute for Advanced Study (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg), Delmenhorst. Two bursaries of ?400 were available for students from nations with limited resources.