The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered our communities, our institutions, and our world. Globally, health care infrastructure, scientific research communities, arts and culture organizations, policymaking bodies, local and national economies, K-12 schools and higher education, as well as social service agencies have had to respond to unprecedented challenges. Existing inequities have been magnified and exacerbated. Continue Reading »
Hello, SLSA Friends! Since 2012, the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University has worked on transdisciplinary projects to inspire collective imagination for better futures. A year into the global pandemic that upended many of our institutions, structures, and closely-held assumptions, it is more evident than ever before that we need new ideas to Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Spring 2021, Vol. 30, No.3 (updated) *SLSA Special Event *ENERGY–SLSA 2021 Conference *Election 2021 *2/24/21 Executive Committee Meeting Notes *Committee Members and Appointments *Membership Renewal *Policies: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *Ombudspersons *AnthropoScene Book Series *SLSA Europe News SLSA SPECIAL EVENT: “Reading Accidentals: Scholars, Scientists, and Novelists in Continue Reading »
The Davy Notebooks Project is recruiting 2 x Postdoctoral Research Associates (full time). For full details, and to apply, see https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A3294. Applications close 15 March 2021.
I would like to draw your attention to three late postings for tenure-line positions to begin in Fall 2021 in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas. For all three positions, we particularly welcome candidates who include race and ethnicity, diasporic concerns, underrepresented populations, or social inequalities Continue Reading »
I am excited to announce that my new book, The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics, and Politics in Israel and Palestine, has just been published by Bloomsbury / I.B.Tauris Imprint. The book is available as a hardback or e-book at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-weaponized-camera-in-the-middle-east-9781838602710/ (individuals may use discount code GLR BN3 for 35% off). This book will be Continue Reading »
Announcing the publication of Doctor Who and Science: Essays on Ideas, Identities and Ideologies in the Series — a book I edited with Marcus K. Harmes, published by McFarland. Science has always been part of Doctor Who. The first episode featured scenes in a science laboratory and a science teacher, and the 2020 season’s finale highlighted a scientist’s Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Winter 2021, Vol. 30, No.2 *Executive Committee Meeting Notes *Election 2021 *Committee Members and Appointments *Membership Renewal *Policies: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *Ombudspersons *AnthropoScene Book Series *SLSA Europe News SLSA Executive Meeting,Thursday 2/4/21 Attending: David Cecchetto, Ed Chang, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Elizabeth Donaldson, Jay Continue Reading »
What is Melville beyond the whale? Long celebrated for his stories of the sea, Melville was also fascinated by the interrelations between living species and planetary systems, a perspective informing his work in ways we now term “ecological.” By reading Melville in the context of nineteenth-century science, Tom Nurmi contends that he may best be Continue Reading »
DECODINGS Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Newsletter Fall 2020, Vol. 30, No.1 (December edition) *Executive Committee Meeting Notes *Election Results *Committee Members and Appointments *Membership Renewal *Policies: Respectful Behavior and Freedom of Speech *Ombudspersons *AnthropoScene Book Series *SLSA Europe News EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING NOTES President’s Report: David Cecchetto suggested that the executive committee Continue Reading »
