Complexity in the Humanities Workshop IV

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 4.00PM to 6.30pm

This year's second CMods Complexity in the Humanities workshop centres upon the topic of time and complex systems. The workshop will be based on three different perspectives from beyond the humanities:

The physical sciences (represented by Susan Stepney, University of York)

The life sciences (represented by Leo Caves, University of York)

The social sciences (represented by Emma Uprichard, University of Warwick)

The presentations will sketch out the ways in which the relation between time and complex systems is conceived within each disciplinary formation as a foil for discussion of the ways in which the humanities have addressed, or might address, the topic.

Please contact Richard Walsh (richard.walsh@york.ac.uk) if you are interested in attending, for advance readings.

Location: BS/008

Email: richard.walsh@york.ac.uk

Complexity in the Humanities Workshop III

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 2.00PM to 5.30pm

The first workshop this year for the CMods Research Strand on Complexity in the Humanities will be based on work in progress from three contributors to the volume Narrating Complexity, currently in preparation by members of the NarCS group. They are:

Maria Poulaki (University of Surrey): Emergent causality in complex films and complex systems

Erika Fülöp (University of Lancaster): Verbal narratives as/and complex systems: The uses and limits of an analogy

Romana Turina (University of York): Narrative experiences of history and complex systems

Our three presenters represent a range of disciplinary perspectives across the humanities (respectively, film studies, literature and historiography/digital media), which will provide a broad base for discussion of the ways in which humanities disciplines can get hold of the issues of systemic complexity.

Please contact Richard Walsh (richard.walsh@york.ac.uk) if you are interested in attending, for advance readings

Location: BS/007

Email: richard.walsh@york.ac.uk