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litsci-l-digest       Wednesday, March 17 2004       Volume 01 : Number
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In this issue:

     Conference: POPULAR SCIENCE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY SITES AND
EXPERIENCES
     Journal Call for Papers: "(Un)healthy Interiors: ... public health
and private space"
     Call for papers: Lyric and Media (MLA '04)

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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:56:12 -0500
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Conference: POPULAR SCIENCE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY SITES AND
EXPERIENCES

POPULAR SCIENCE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY SITES AND EXPERIENCES (York
University,=
 Toronto, August 2-3, 2004): Taking place just prior to the 3 Society =
conference in Halifax, this conference sets out to ask how something now
=
conceived of as 'popular science' developed in the nineteenth century. 
We =
start from the assumption that what people meant by the term 'popular =
science' changed over the century, and that, even at any one time, it =
carried different connotations to different social groups and to people
=
experiencing it in different contexts.  The emphasis will be placed on =
sites and experiences in an effort to extend our understanding of the =
history of popular science beyond the popularisers themselves.  We will
=
not ignore the writers, publishers and curators who created popular =
science products, but we want to examine larger questions about the ways
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in which popular science emerged  and was transformed over the century. 
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Speakers will consider the different media and physical locations which
=
could be involved, from printed items through conversations to museums
and =
aquaria. They will also try to develop methods for investigating the =
ever-elusive problem of audience experiences. The conference aims to =
broaden our understanding of popular science in a time when it became
far =
more widespread as a form of entertaining instruction. Speakers will =
include: Vicky Carroll, Ann Shteir, Jon Topham, John van Wyhe, Aileen =
Fyfe, Iwan Morus, Anne Secord, Jim Secord, Sofia Akerberg, Sam Alberti,
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Graeme Gooday, and Bernard Lightman.  Jonathan Rose and Sophie Forgan
will =
offer commentaries.  Conference organizers: Bernard Lightman and Aileen
=
Fyfe.  For further information, contact Jessica Poole at
(jmfpoole@yorku.ca= 
). The conference website is at: http://www.yorku.ca/popsci/ .

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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:49:53 -0500
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Journal Call for Papers: "(Un)healthy Interiors: ... public
health and private space"

Call for Papers

Studies In The Social Sciences, a journal devoted to interdisciplinary
scholarship, announces a call for papers for its 2004 issue entitled
"(Un)healthy Interiors: Contestation at the intersection of public
health
and private space." The editors are soliciting manuscripts  from a range
=
of
disciplines within the social sciences, medical sciences and humanities
=
that
address the social dimensions of state public health policies,
particularly=

with regards to public health campaigns and public hospitals. The
editors
welcome papers that focus on any region of the world since 1850. 

 Studies In The Social Sciences is a peer-reviewed journal. Three paper
copies of manuscripts of  4,000-7,000 words should be submitted in
recent
versions of  either Corel Word Perfect or MS Word (initially, electronic
versions will be accepted for review) and prepared according to the
guidelines in Turabian's A Manual for Writers.  The Author's name should
appear only on a cover sheet. Studies In The Social Sciences reviews
only
unpublished manuscripts that are not currently under review for
publication=

elsewhere. The deadline for receipt of manuscripts is June 1, 2004



Essays should be sent to:

Jonathan Ablard and Aran MacKinnon, Editors
Studies in Social Science
Department of History
State University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118 

 jablard@westga.edu 

amackinn@westga.edu 

Dr. Aran S. MacKinnon
Department of History,
University of West Georgia
1601 Maple St., Carrollton, GA, 30118
Tel. (770) 836-4554
E-mail: amackinn@westga.edu 


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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:27:43 -0500
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Call for papers: Lyric and Media (MLA '04)

Call for Papers

MLA Discussion Group on Media and Literature

Program for the MLA Convention in Philadelphia (December 27-30, 2004):
  "Lyric and Media"

How do theories of lyric expression, interpretation, and experience
intersect with theories of media? Does a focus on the lyric compel us
to rethink the narrative orientations of many discussions of the
literature-media nexus?

Possibilities include: lyric poetry in its media ecologies, from the
alphabet or ideogram to the Internet; lyric, song, and sound
recording; lyric and electric media; lyric and film/video; lyric and
the dynamic generation of the page.

Please send abstracts, along with requests for any audiovisual
equipment needed for the presentation, to rmenke@uga.edu by March 25.
(This program has been approved.)
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Richard Menke * Department of English * Park Hall 254
   University of Georgia * Athens, GA 30602-6205
tel: (706) 542-1261 * fax: (706) 542-2181


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