The conference will explore the relationship between the sciences and the humanities which is an area of studies that is in need of further research in the face of the continuous advancement and expansion of technology and science and their influences on the ‘happiness’ of society over the last two hundred years. Technology has certainly created tremendous opportunities for mobility, communication and wellbeing, eliciting enthusiastic responses as well as preoccupations across intellectual élites and society. In the 1830s Theophile Gaultier warned about the ‘end of books’ in connection with the development of technology and W.B. Yeats in the 1890s referred to ‘the man of science’ as ‘often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula’. On the other hand F. T. Marinetti promoted an exaltation of the technical and scientific progress in his 1909 Manifesto del futurismo.
The conference will focus the attention on the interstice between sciences and humanities, two areas of knowledge that belong by default to different research paradigms.
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The University of St Andrews
Parliament Hall, South Street, St Andrews, KY16 9JU
31-1 April 2017