Cardiff ScienceHumanities

Description

The ScienceHumanities initiative at Cardiff University is an ambitious attempt to think and rethink the relationships and the boundaries between the sciences and the humanities.

They believe that the contemporary moment demands an urgent and rigorous reassessment of how scholars conceptualise disciplinary boundaries and the production of knowledge. Their work aims to respond and contribute to diverse discourses both within the academy and beyond it.

Why ScienceHumanities? It was chosen to run the two words together to emphasise the desire to think without borders. At the same time, it was decided against putting punctuation between them to avoid prescribing or caricaturing forms of relation or separation in advance.

The initiative at Cardiff is cross-disciplinary in scope with investigators and collaborators from a variety of academic specialities and institutional backgrounds. Cardiff ScienceHumanities hosts a range of events, including seminars, workshops, public talks, lectures, reading groups, and colloquia to build and develop new and emerging critical interactions between different fields of inquiry.