CModS Complexity in the Humanities

Posted on 30 October 2015

The CModS Complexity in the Humanities research strand, led by Richard Walsh, is now in its second year. The programme this year will include workshops drawing upon the current work of the NarCS group on narrating complexity.

The second year of the CModS Complexity in the Humanities research strand will feature work from several members of the NarCS group - Maria Poulaki, Erika Fülöp, Romana Turina, Susan Stepney, Leo Caves and Emma Uprichard - arising out of the volume of essays Narrating Complexity (currently in preparation, and edited by Susan Stepney and Richard Walsh). The first of these workshops will situate the issues of representing complexity in the context of several humanities disciplines, including film studies, literary studies, history and digital media studies; the second workshop will initiate a dialogue on time and complex systems between perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, life sciences and physical sciences.

A further opportunity for collaboration between humanities researchers and Complex systems scientists will be the YCCSA summer school programme, which attracts ambitious students to pursue 9-week projects proposed by interdisciplinary teams of two or more York researchers (more details to follow).

The research theme also benefits from the periodic meetings of the ongoing complexity reading group, jointly run by CModS and YCCSA. Anyone interested in participating should contact Susan Stepney (susan.stepney@york.ac.uk) or Richard Walsh (richard.walsh@york.ac.uk).