Daily Archives: 24 August 2015

Memory and Skill Across Time – Call For Papers

Memory Day 2015: Memory and Skill Across Time
University of Otago (Margaret Bartley Theatre, Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand)
6-9 December 2015

Memory Day is an annual interdisciplinary showcase of research and scholarship on memory, sponsored by the Department of Cognitive Science and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. This year for the first time the University of Otago will be hosting the colloquium, which will be sponsored by The Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund.

This year’s exciting program focuses on memory and skill across time, conceived of as historical time; the experience of time in high-pressure, high-stakes events such as sport and performance; and the developmental life course.

Organising committee: Evelyn Tribble (English, Otago); Amanda Barnier (Cognitive Science, Macquarie; Elaine Reese (Psychology, Otago); Kirk Michaelian (Philosophy, Otago)

  • Sunday 6 December: Keynote #1 and opening reception
  • Monday 7 December – Wednesday 9 December: Further keynotes, panels, and roundtables

Keynote Addresses by:

And presentations by: PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, early career researchers and other staff, researchers at the University of Otago, members of the Collective Cognition Team at Macquarie as well as collaborators and colleagues from across and beyond Macquarie and Otago and within and across disciplines.

Call for Papers:

Limited space is available for brief papers on any aspect of the topic. Please email an abstract (200 words) along with a very brief biography to Evelyn Tribble (evelyn.tribble@otago.ac.nz) no later than 31 August. Acceptances will be notified on a rolling basis, so please submit your proposal as soon as possible.

Assistant Professor in Literature and Science Before 1900 – Call For Applications

University of Pennsylvania
English Department Assistant Professor in Literature and Science Before 1900

The English Department invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in literature and science before 1900. Conferral of Ph.D. by July 1, 2016 is expected. All applicants working in the medieval, early modern, long eighteenth-century, Romantic, and Victorian periods will be considered; transatlantic and global perspectives are also welcome. We are especially interested in applicants who work across traditional period boundaries and are conversant with recent theoretical debates in science studies. Research and teaching interests may include, but are not limited to, medicine, race and anthropology, technology and information, natural philosophy, animal studies, and the environment.

Applicants should submit the following materials electronically at http://facultysearches.provost.upenn.edu/postings/642: a cover letter, a two-page dissertation or book abstract, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample (20-25 pages), and contact information for three individuals who have agreed to provide a letter of recommendation. Recommenders will be contacted by the University with instructions on how to submit a letter to the website. Review of applications will begin October 26, 2015 and continue until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews will be conducted by Skype.

The Department of English is strongly committed to Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence and to creating a more diverse faculty (for more information see: http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v58/n02/diversityplan.html). The University of Pennsylvania is an EOE. Minorities/Women/Individuals with disabilities/Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply.