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This international conference, which takes place on 12 - 14 July 2016, celebrates Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study’s 10th Anniversary. The conference focuses
on issues of Evidence,
in accord with the IAS’s annual research theme for 2015-16.
The conference follows the model of the its successful 2014 conference, and as well as drawing delegates from around the world, the conference welcomes former IAS Fellows back to Durham to consider the evidential aspects of the annual themes under which they
undertook Fellowships in Durham. These themes include: The Legacy of Charles Darwin; Modelling; Being Human; Water; Futures; Time,
Light and Emergence. These panels
and others,
are open to any researcher with interests on any aspect of Evidence.
Conference Panels include:
·
Caring for Evidence: perspectives of archivists, librarians, museum curators and
conservators
·
Cultural Studies and the Evidence of Addiction
·
Evidence and Ethics in Animal Research
·
Evidence in Risk – Risk in Evidence?
·
Evidence in Science, Theology and More – the role of the unseen ‘Prior’
·
Evidence: of the people, by the people and for the people?
·
Evidence under the Heritage Bridge
·
Material Evidence: knowing the past
·
Re-imagined Communities: pooling evidence on human-non-human relations in river
catchment research
·
The Evidence of the Sciences
·
Visual Evidence – the Future
The
Call for Papers is now open. Paper abstracts should be no more than 300 words in length, and should be submitted via
https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/decennial/papers/.
Papers can be proposed with a view to being included in a specific panel
(please state preferences clearly via the online proforma), or can simply be submitted, in which case the conference committee will direct them towards appropriate panels, or into a more general event.
Event registration is available at:
https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/decennial/registration/.
If you have any queries please contact the Conference Administrator Linda Crowe ([log in to unmask]).
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