Events

• Writers, Scholars, Scientists: Experimental Encounters with Literary Depictions of Science VIII8Dec2021Workshop on BLAZE ISLAND (2020) by Catherine BushMore
• Writers, Scholars, Scientists: Experimental Encounters with Literary Depictions of Science VII21Jul2021Workshop on ACCIDENTALS (2020) by Susan M. GainesMore
• Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives13May2021GAPS 2021 ConferenceMore
• SLSA 2021 satellite event – Reading Accidentals: Scholars, Scientists, and Novelists in Conversation25Mar2021Virtual event, with scholars Ursula Heise and Jay Clayton, ornithologist Auriel Fournier, and author Susan M. Gaines More
• Science Narratives in Policy Advice9Mar2021FMS Workshop, by invitation onlyMore
• Work-in-Progress WS March 20212Mar2021More
• Cardiff BookTalk with ScienceHumanities & FMS17Feb2021Enjoy literary fiction? All are welcome to join the virtual Cardiff BookTalk on ACCIDENTALS (plus birds, biodiversity loss, fascism, South America, wetlands, and more) Register in advance to read and join the conversation More
• Science and its Applications: Negotiating Human Enhancement across Media28Jan2021FMS Digital Workshop organized by: Julia Gatermann (University of Bremen) Michael Fuchs (University of Oldenburg) Martin Butler (University of Oldenburg) Sina Farzin (Bundeswehr University Munich) More
• Experimental Encounters VI10Dec2020In our sixth writers-scientists-scholars workshop we discuss Jaspreet Singh's new novel FACE (Fall, 2021) More
• ScienceHumanities International Summer School8Jun2020POSTPONED to 2021 In 2020, the Cardiff ScienceHumanities group partners with the Fiction Meets Science Program, to host the summer school at their home base in Germany. The theme for 2020 is “Energies.”More
• Workshop on Biographical Fiction and the History of Women in Science27May2020Fiction Meets Science members come together in their first Online Workshop to discuss modern representations of female historical scientists in contemporary biographical fiction.More
• Experimental Encounters V14Feb2020Fifth Writers Scholars Scientists Workshop: "Experimental Encounters Around Literary Depictions of Science" - Writers, scholars and scientists from the Fiction Meets Science field come together to discuss Chrissy Kolaya's "Charmed Particles" from a cross-disciplinary perspective.More
• Fiction Meets Science Workshop February 202013Feb2020Fiction Meets Science Members come together to discuss current projects/ work in progress, publications, presentations and evolving perspectives.More
• Comparing Narratives Across Media and Genre: Nuclear Accidents24Oct2019Fiction Meets Science members come together to discuss modern representations of the Chernobyl catastrophe.More
• Narrative Across Disciplines - Transmedial Narratology and the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse in FMS II26Mar2019Fiction Meets Science members discuss the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse and apply it to their projects.More
• Houston, we have a Stereotype: Analyzing Representations of Science in Fiction19Mar2019Jennifer Henke and Luz Maria Hernandez organized a symposium in Mexico which examined the (mis)representation of science in fiction.More
• Fiction Meets Science Workshop March 20195Mar2019Doctoral candidates and the FMS board of directors discuss current projects.More
• Frankenstein's Legacy: 200 Years of Myths, Monsters and Mysteries21Dec2018Organized by Jennifer Henke and Kati Voigt, this conference invited all participants to critically reflect on the novel Frankenstein and its impact 200 years later.More
• The Anglophone Science Novel and the Global Dimensions of Science: An Exploratory Workshop5Dec2018A FMS workshop on and discussion of Amitav Ghosh's "The Calcutta Chromosome": A novel of fevers, delirium and discoveries. More
• Experimental Encounters IV14Jun2018Pippa Goldschmidt returns to the HWK for a discussion of her recently completed science novel!More