A special mailing today to launch the call for papers for the next ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference to take place in Orkney in September. This time the conference is in collaboration with the Orkney International Science Festival and there is an additional call to enter a competition to speak at this event. 

1. Call for papers for the postgraduate conference A Place on the Edge? Please send a 300-400 word abstract and a 50 word biography to Rebecca Ford, Veronica Fibisan, and Michelle Poland – [log in to unmask] – by 1st March 2018. Proposals for panels are also welcome: please send a 200 word summary of the rationale for the panel, in addition to individual abstracts. More information is available on the asle-uki website here.
2. Give a lecture in Orkney!  To celebrate this coming together of science, literature and environment, entries are invited for a lecture to be delivered at a public event as part of the 2018 Orkney International Science Festival. Entrants are invited to submit the text of a 25 minute public lecture (2000-3000 words), which is on the one hand to have intellectual substance, and on the other to be accessible to a general audience. The winners in each category will have travel and accommodation costs covered to allow them to deliver their lecture at an event in Orkney, on Friday 7th September 2018, as part of the Orkney International Science Festival. More information on competition categories and how to submit here.