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Dear friends and colleagues, Please be informed that the deadline for submission of a proposal to the Society of Literature, Science and the Arts (eu) 2019 International Conference has been extended until 15th of February 2019.For your convenience please find some more information below Yours Best regards George N. Vlahakis SpaceTime http://st-slsaeu2019.indigoflicks.com/ Call for Participation The SLSAeu Conference 2019 is centered on SpaceTime, a theme open to various multidisciplinary approaches fromscientific, literary and artistic perspectives. The notions of space and timeseparately or as unique entity govern our lives throughout the history of theUniverse. We thought that SpaceTime would be a suitable theme for the SLSAeuconference in Greece, the place where not only theoretical and philosophicalstudies on space time have appeared since the antiquity but also reliableinstruments for their measurements. Since 1908 the relativistic concept ofspacetime sets a new theoretical framework drawing new boundaries that are atodds with previous epistemic and semiotic differentiations. It proposes the conceptual reorganisationof space and time as they fuse togetherto a four dimensional spacetime continuum. Temporality and spatiality are also key concepts for narrativity, but what do we know about the cultural imaginations of spatiotemporality? What are the intrinsic cognitive,epistemic, cultural semiotic, pragmatic or narratological implications ofre-thinking space as interwoven with time? What about the implications ofcentral concepts of proper time, individual worldlines or the relativity ofsimultaneity for the narrative organisation of temporality? What about theorganisation of narrative spacetime configurations, when spacetime ceases to bea stage for actors on it, but behaves itself like an actor, i.e. in generalrelativity theory? Furthermore we hope that space, time and spacetime will beexamined in this conference also from views other than those prevailing in thewestern civilization. The SLSAeu 2019 Conference will be followed by a workshop on history ofscience, philosophy and literature with the theme “Travels and Travelers” which will take place atHermoupolis, Syros Island, 1-3 July 2019. Streams Thisconference invites participants to approach the notions of space, time andspacetime from a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to specificdisciplines/fields or genres: history of Science and scientific instruments,literature, art(s), philosophy, anthropology, biology, physics, cosmology,sociology, science fiction, posthumanism etc. Selected abstracts will then begrouped into paper sessions, panels and roundtables on specific thematicstreams. Formats of presentations Individual paper presentations(20-minute papers). Panels (120 minutes, including a moderator and participantsfrom at least two different countries and/or disciplines). Interdisciplinaryroundtables spanning science/technology, humanities or social sciences, and thearts. (60-90 minutes). Confirmed plenary speakers Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke, Friendrich-AlexanderUniversity, Erlangen-Nuremberg Dr. Efthymios Nicolaides, Director ofResearch, Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation Dr. Tefkros Michailides, Mathematician,Author of books on science and literature (the list will be updated after 15thof February) Venue of the Conference The main venueof the Conference will be the building of the National Hellenic ResearchFoundation, Vassileos Kosntantinou 48, 116 35 Athens, close to the centre ofAthens (one metro station or 10-15 minutes walking distance from Syntagmasquare). Additionally the nearby historical building of the Marasleion Academyfor Teachers, now belonging to the Department of Primary Education of theUniversity of Athens may be used for parallel sessions and/or events. Registration Details forthe registration will be provided in due time. The early bird fee is 200 Euros.There is a reduced fee for students, unemployed and early career scholars. Formore details please visit : http://st-slsaeu2019.indigoflicks.com/registration-and-payment/ We encourage strongly the participation of Ph.D. students and earlycareer scholars. Plenary/Keynote Speakers will be announced in January 2019. SLSAeu 2019 isorganised by the Hellenic Open University, ELINAS Center for Literature andScience at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, InternationalCommission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, National and KapodistrianUniversity of Athens, Institute of Historical Research/National HellenicResearch Foundation. For questions regarding the Conference, suggestions for astream topic or other questions: George Vlahakis: [log in to unmask] Aura Heydenreich: [log in to unmask] KonstantinosTampakis: [log in to unmask] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MERSENNE list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MERSENNE&A=1