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AHRC and BBC Radio 3 Launch New Generation Thinkers 2012

This morning launched New Generation Thinkers 2012, a second opportunity for arts and humanities researchers based at UK universities to get their research ideas ‘on air’. This opportunity is open to early career arts and humanities researchers based at UK universities and not just to people funded by the AHRC. In June of this year BBC Radio 3 and the AHRC announced the 10 academics selected for the inaugural New Generation Thinkers Scheme – the culmination of a pilot talent scheme for emerging academics from the arts and humanities with a passion for communicating the excitement of modern scholarship to a wider audience and who have an interest in broader cultural debate.[ http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/28/bbc-new-generation-thinkers-contest ]

Now the AHRC and BBC Radio 3 are looking for applications for the New Generation Thinkers of 2012. Up to sixty successful applicants will have a chance to develop their programme-making ideas with experienced BBC producers at a series of dedicated workshops and, of these up to ten will become Radio 3’s resident New Generation Thinkers. They will benefit from a unique opportunity to develop their own programmes for BBC Radio 3 and a chance to regularly appear on air.

More details can be found here: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/NewGenerationThinkers.aspx

Contact:

Jake Gilmore
Communications Manager
Arts & Humanities Research Council
Tel: 01793 41 6021 Mob: 07970 99 4586 E: j.gilmore@ahrc.ac.uk
www.ahrc.ac.uk Twitter feed @ahrcpress

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Call for Participants: (New) Atheism, Scientism and Open-mindedness Workshop

Lancaster University 3rd April 2012

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Dr Fern Elsdon-Baker, British Council

Professor Stephen Clark, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool

Papers are welcome on any aspect of the relationship between or interaction of (new) atheism and/or scientism and open-mindedness. Each presenter will have 30 minutes to speak followed by 15 minutes for questions and discussion. Papers from postgraduate research students are welcome.

Abstracts of not more than 300 words should be sent as word documents by the 31st December to s.hitchen1@lancaster.ac.uk

Attendance is free but registration in advance is necessary as places are strictly limited.

Sarah Hitchen

Dept of Politics, Philosophy and Religion,
Lancaster University,
Bailrigg,
Lancashire,
LA1 4YL
UK

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Pakistan Workshop 2012

Pakistan Workshop 2012

The Lake District, 11th-13th May 2012

Secularity, Globalisation and Power

Both secularity and globalisation are understood to be phenomena that are intrinsically connected to rise of the post Enlightenment modern world. However, in order to understand the relationship between secularity, globalisation and power it is necessary for these themes to be contextualised in order to give them and the links between them, analytical meaning.

For further information, contact pakistanworkshop@gmail.com or become a fan of the facebook group “Pakistan Workshop”. Further information is also available on the Pakistan Workshop website: http://www.pakistanworkshop.org

The deadline for abstracts is 10th February 2012, after which the organisers will make a selection and inform the participants of their decision. The finished papers would be required two weeks before the workshop, so they can be pre circulated to all participants.

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NSRN Journal Launch

In partnership with the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC), Trinity College, CT, the NSRN as launched a new academic journal for the field, Secularism and Nonreligion.

We are are now accepting submissions of scholarly articles in the diverse areas of secularism, secularity, nonreligion and atheism research. The journal is social scientific and submissions will be accepted from all social science subjects; we also welcome relevant contributions from other subject areas, including history, philosophy, cognitive science and so on. Full details for how to submit and author guidelines are available here.