Travel bursaries available for 'Silent Spring' workshops
A number of travel bursaries are available for postgraduates and early career researchers to participate in this project, which uses Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to explore the relationship between arts and science research through two workshops in 2013.
An AHRC collaborative skills project hosted by the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York and Birkbeck, University of London
A number of travel bursaries are available for postgraduates and early career researchers to participate in this project, which uses Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to explore the relationship between arts and science research through two workshops in 2013.
Rachel Carson’s classic polemic Silent Spring celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012: it still stands as one of the most influential texts on the damage caused to the natural environment by chemicals and nuclear fallout in the twentieth century. Taking Carson’s book as its starting point, this interdisciplinary post-graduate project aims to explore how a growing awareness of the biological, chemical and technological changes to the environment has shaped cultural explorations of nature and landscape in the post-1945 period, through visual art, literature and film. We will consider both how scientists have used images and texts to communicate their ideas to the public, and how artists have responded to, used, and resisted scientific developments in their work. Through two workshops at York and Birkbeck in 2013, we will start unpacking some of the complications inherent in the use of terms such as ‘nature’ and ‘environment’, and the associations embedded in them.
The first workshop will take place in York on Friday 1st March 2013 and the second workshop takes place at Birkbeck, University of London in June - the exact date tbc.
To apply for a Travel Bursary for Workshop 1 in York, please send a copy of your CV together with a statement of up to 500 words on why you are interested in attending the workshop, and how your research intersects with its themes, to silentspring2013@gmail.com by Monday 28th January at 5:30pm. In your application, please state your institutional affiliation, and whether or not your research is funded by the AHRC. A separate application must be made for Workshop 2, deadline tbc. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the organisers at this address.
You can download a full description of this project here.