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The 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference
by Blackwell Compass
This is the podcast series for the groundbreaking COMPASS INTERDISCIPLINARY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE19-30 October, 2009This series contains keynote lectures from eminent academics and 'publishing workshop' talks from a variety of academics and publishing professionals."Join the largest online meeting of minds in the social sciences and humanities!"In these days of increasing fragmentation and hyper-specialisation in academia, Compass aims to foster connections amongst scholars. To further this cause, Wiley-Blackwell and the Compass Editors-in-Chief are organising this online conference to promote interdisciplinary approaches.The first Compass conference aims to cut across academic boundaries – within and between disciplines, between theory and practice, approaches and methodologies by providing a space for multi- and cross-disciplinary reviewThe overall theme of the conference is ‘Breaking Down Barriers’. Around 20 conference papers will tackle one or more of the following sub-th
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‘Reading Beowulf in the Ruins of Grozny: Pre/modern, Post/human, and the Question of Being-Together’ By Eileen Joy
Professor Joy will be giving her keynote lecture entitled ‘Reading Beowulf in the Ruins of Grozny: Pre/modern, Post/human, and the Question of Being-Together’ on Thursday 29th October Eileen Joy is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Southern Illinois University...
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‘What is the Human Mind Designed for?’ By Roy F. Baumeister
Professor Baumeister will be giving his keynote lecture entitled ‘What is the Human Mind Designed for?’ on Tuesday 27th October Roy F. Baumeister is currently the Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology and head of the social psychology graduate program at Florida State University. He grew up in...
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Virtual Communities, Virtual Cultures, Virtual Governance’ By Peter Ludlow
Professor Ludlow will be giving his keynote lecture entitled ‘Virtual Communities, Virtual Cultures, Virtual Governance’ on Monday 26th October Peter Ludlow is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He has worked on a number of topics at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics…
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‘Floodplain Catastrophes and Climate Change: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Riverine Societies’ By Mark Macklin
Professor Macklin will be giving his keynote lecture entitled ‘Floodplain Catastrophes and Climate Change: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Riverine Societies’ on Thursday 22nd October Mark Macklin’s research is located at the intersection of geomorphology, Quaternary science and archaeology. He...
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'Language Death: a Problem for All' By David Crystal (University of Bangor)
Professor Crystal will be giving his keynote lecture entitled ‘Language Death’ on Tuesday 20th October David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster, and is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bangor. He read English…
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'The Rainbow Bridge’ By Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University)
Professor Griffin will be giving this keynote lecture entitled ‘‘The Rainbow Bridge’: Reflections on Interdisciplinarity in the Cybernetic Age‘ on Monday 19th October. Roger Griffin is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University (UK) where he gives courses on fascism, modernism, and...
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'Why Interdisciplinarity?' By Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Professor Gagnier will be giving this introductory talk entitled ‘Why Interdisciplinarity?‘ on Monday 19th October, to introduce the 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference. The books of Regenia Gagnier have shaped the study of Victorian and modern culture with highly influential work…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is the podcast series for the groundbreaking COMPASS INTERDISCIPLINARY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE19-30 October, 2009This series contains keynote lectures from eminent academics and 'publishing workshop' talks from a variety of academics and publishing professionals."Join the largest online meeting of minds in the social sciences and humanities!"In these days of increasing fragmentation and hyper-specialisation in academia, Compass aims to foster connections amongst scholars. To further this cause, Wiley-Blackwell and the Compass Editors-in-Chief are organising this online conference to promote interdisciplinary approaches.The first Compass conference aims to cut across academic boundaries – within and between disciplines, between theory and practice, approaches and methodologies by providing a space for multi- and cross-disciplinary reviewThe overall theme of the conference is ‘Breaking Down Barriers’. Around 20 conference papers will tackle one or more of the following sub-th
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