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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LEIDEN UNIVERSITY THIRTEENTH LEIDEN OCTOBER CONFERENCE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, 21 AND 22 OCTOBER 1999 A CALL FOR PAPERS LITERATURE AND SCIENCE Even before the Renaissance provoked a new appetite for scientific investigation, such characters as wizards and alchemists stirred the imaginations of poets and romancers. However, from the beginning of the seventeenth century onwards the notion of organized scientific experimentation gathered support and strength and this stimulated sympathy as well as reaction amongst writers. At the beginning of the century, John Dryden was one of the early members of the Royal Society. But Dryden's satirical Augustan successors, Pope and Swift, were deeply critical of the role that science was beginning increasingly to play, despite the influence of Newtonian ideas on poets and essayists, theologians and philosophers throughout the eighteenth century. This culminated in such associations of manufacturers and scientists, preachers and poets as the Lunar Society. Indeed it could be argued that the early stages of Romanticism were inspired both by current science and earlier literature. Ever since that period, science and literature have been regarded at different times as deadly rivals or as creative collaborators. This conference will attempt to deal with as many aspects of this relationship as possible from the Middle Ages to the present day. Contributors are invited to deal with any of these issues either in a general theoretical way or with very specific instances in mind: ideally papers will combine the general with the particular in illuminating ways, focusing on specific case histories, perhaps, and on the relationship of individual writers to science and of certain scientists to literary figures of their day. Large issues and small should be put under the microscope; and literary history and scientific history jointly surveyed. Papers should have a maximum length of thirty minutes; and the proceedings of the Conference will be published. Prospective speakers are invited to submit proposals for papers (a topic and a title at least, and, if possible, a 100-150 word summary) to the Conference Organizers, Dr Valeria Tinkler-Villani and Drs Annemarie Estor, English Department, Leiden University, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands by 31 March 1999. You can also make contact per e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]. Check out the link below to get your own 20MB of free webspace? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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What I do? I am writing my PhD dissertation at the department of English of the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Its subject is "Jeanette Winterson's Images of Science", especially medicine and physics. My research can be characterised as interdisciplinary. It can best be situated in the field called "Literature and Science". I am interested in the philosophy of science, history of science, literature and visual arts that deals with science and technology, and especially in artists that have a strong critique of rationality and objectivity. I am a working member of the Society for Literature and Science; I presented a paper called "Fantastic Ideas of Space; the Case of Jeanette Winterson" at the annual conference of the SLS last november in Gainesville, Florida. I was also present at the conference "Lost Worlds and Mad Elephants" on the same topic in Leipzig, Germany, in may 1998. Together with ms. V. Tinkler-Villani, I am organising the 1999 October Conference at the Leiden Department of English. Its theme will be "Literature and Science". A call for papers can also be found on this site. My supervisor for the dissertation is prof. dr. Theo D'haen, who is amongst others specialised in postmodern literature. | In my free time, I am a singer. I am a "very dramatic mezzo-soprano" (quote) and I take great pleasure in singing in "Bon Ton", a chamber choir built up of sixteen voices, which focuses mainly on Dutch repertoire of all times. I also sing in the Residentiekoor in The Hague. This Choir has roughly a hundred singers. The conductor/artistic leader of both choirs is Paul van Gulick. With the Residentiekoor we have performed amongst others Stravinsky's Mass in C, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. In may, we will go to Prague where we will perform a.o. Mozart's Missa Brevis (I forgot the number of the Verzeichnis) We recorded a CD with modern Dutch works. It is called "Glorious" -it was named after the piece composed by Jaap Geraeds. It also contains Paul van Gulick's "Pieta", a serene composition for choir, organ and soprano on a text by Elisabeth Eybers. To me, our musical climax was reached when we performed Verdi's Requiem in the Great Church of Breda together with the Krasnojarsk Symphony Orchestra on the 4rth of june 1998. I am also a soloist; I have followed lessons by Dobrinka Yankova and Pierre Mak. On the 4rth of March, I will give a recital in the Faculty Club of the Leiden University. The programme will bring German Songs from the Romantic period (Brahms, Schumann and Schubert). Carolien Devilee will accompany me on the piano. I am also a poet. I published Dutch poems in "In Zekere Zin", "Skin", and "Surplus" and I have published two little volumes of poetry. Its titles are "Middag" [afternoon] (1996) and "Ruimte" [space] (1997). Lately, I am working on an operatic text that will be put to music for a great festival in the honour of the 750th birthday of the city of Breda in the year 2002. I am planning to publish another volume of poetry this spring. -
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