It is a real thrill to let you know that the Ordered Universe project was successful in an AHRC open call for the opportunity to present and curate an event at the Cheltenham Science and Literature Festivals. Following an ‘elevator pitch’ and workshop in Swindon, the Ordered Universe was selected to work with the ScienceContinue reading “Cheltenham Science Festival 2015: Ordered Universe presents…”
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Guest Blog on AHRC Science in Culture
The Ordered Universe has a guest blog on the AHRC Science in Culture website, on the Being Human Festival, with more reflection on the experience of presenting Grosseteste and his wonderful imagination in a public forum. The Being Human Festival is running again next year: a terrific initiative, and an exciting way to present theContinue reading “Guest Blog on AHRC Science in Culture”
13th Century Science: Doctoral Studentships – Applications Open
13th Century Science – Doctoral Studentships – Deadline 7th April
Ordered Universe and Being Human – On Film
We are delighted with the new short film of the Ordered Universe team in action at last year’s Being Human, Festival of Humanities. Our ‘Dark Ages to Dark Matter‘ day took the participants through the research experience of encountering Grosseteste, piecing together his chronology, crucially sharing a collaborative reading experience, re-creating some of the experimentsContinue reading “Ordered Universe and Being Human – On Film”
Liberal Arts
The next Ordered Universe symposium will take place at Bishop Grosseteste University, in Lincoln, 8th-10th April, 2015. Jack Cunningham and his team at BGU will be taking the helm for the symposium, dedicated to the two earliest of Grosseteste’s works, a second series of sessions on the De generatione sonorum, On the Generation of Sounds, and a firstContinue reading “Liberal Arts”
13th Century Science: New Positions at Oxford
The Ordered Universe team are delighted to announce the success of a linked and related project in Oxford: The Mental and Material Laboratories of 13th Century Science. Based at TORCH, the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (situated in the former Radcliffe Infirmary), the project is led by Hannah Smithson, Clive Siviour and Carol HarrisonContinue reading “13th Century Science: New Positions at Oxford”
Seminar Today in Durham: Richard Bower at the IAS
Richard Bower, one of the core research team members of the Ordered Universe project will be giving a lunchtime seminar today at the Durham University Institute of Advanced Study (1-2 pm in the Seminar Room) Richard is currently a Christopherson Knott Fellow at the Institute, and is exploring comparative cosmologies.
THE Awards – and we got a certificate
So, after the razzmatazz, Jack Dee’s wonderful commentary and the bittersweet feelings for nomination but no prize (do you win silver, or lose gold? – obviously the taking part is all), Ordered Universe has a certificate to boot. The sin of pride aside, about which Grosseteste was especially concerned, it was an interesting and enjoyableContinue reading “THE Awards – and we got a certificate”
2014 in review…from wordpress
The WordPress.com stats people prepared a 2014 annual report for the Ordered Universe blog. Thanks to all for your support. Here’s looking to 2105! Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney OperaContinue reading “2014 in review…from wordpress”
From herding cats to an ordered workshop: how a common goal can cross discipline boundaries to make academia more than the sum of its parts
The social psychologist Henri Tajfel conducted a series of famous experiments to illustrate how group identities and conflicts could be constructed. One of his most interesting discoveries was revealed by accident, in what was intended to be a baseline condition. In this version of the experiment Tajfel did not encourage any sense of group identityContinue reading “From herding cats to an ordered workshop: how a common goal can cross discipline boundaries to make academia more than the sum of its parts”