📢 Don't miss today's #DiSCourseSeminar with guest speaker Mari Hatavara from Tampere University on Narrative Detection in Political Talk. Bringing together Computational Recognition and Narrative Theory. 📢

The talk takes place at 12:00 at the Digital Science Center of @uniinnsbruck, Innrain 15, 6020 Innsbruck, 1st floor.

More info: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-hatavara/

#DigitalScience #Innsbruck #Research #ComputationalModeling #interdisciplinary #NarrativeTheory #TampereUniversity

What work does silence perform in culture and society? 🔍🔇

Across literature, media, and political discourse, silence emerges as both a mechanism of oppression and a resource for resistance, introspection, and expression. Its ambivalence invites new critical and #interdisciplinary approaches.

The next conference, “Hush! Practising Silence in Literature and Culture” will be held at FRIAS 15–17 April 2026. Scholars are invited to explore various forms and affordances of silence in #Anglophone literatures and media, addressing the intentions, drawbacks, and potentialities, implicated in instances and mediations of silence.

By integrating “silent discussions” and other reflective formats, participants will also engage with silence as a method of academic discourse.

📍 FRIAS Seminar room (Albertstraße 19, 79104 Freiburg)
🗓️ 15 April – 17 April 2026

Organisation: Sophia Philomena Wolf and Anne Rüggemeier

🔗 https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/hush/

The effect of #diversity on scientific impact, as reflected in citations, can be studies by looking at the effect of #ethnicity, #discipline, #gender, affiliation, and academic age on citation numbers.

Of the classes considered, ethnic diversity had the strongest correlation with scientific impact.

Papers authored by ethnically diverse teams receive more citations than those by homogeneous teams. Ethnic diversity can enhance a paper’s impact by 10.63% and a scientist’s impact by 47.67%.

While ethnic diversity stands out, other forms of diversity such as discipline and affiliation also contribute to research impact but to a lesser extent.

This indicates that while #interdisciplinary work is beneficial, the diverse perspectives brought by ethnic diversity are paramount.

#science
https://ima.org.uk/24408/the-positive-impact-of-ethnicity-on-scientific-collaboration/

Paper by AlShebli et al. (2018):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07634-8

Join us on Friday noon for the second #DiSCourseSeminar this week:

💡Narrative Detection in Political Talk. Bringing together Computational Recognition and Narrative Theory
👩 Mari Hatavara, Chair Professor of Finnish Literature, Tampere University
📍 Onsite at the DiSC or online on Big Blue Button
🔗: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-hatavara/

#DigitalScience #Innsbruck #PoliticalScience #Literature #interdisciplinary #NarrativeTheory #FinnishParliament #hybrid

#RFT #interdisciplinary #anth #soc #psych #neuro #edu #ag #univ

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/03/15/relational-anthropology-fields-of-becoming-the-collaboration-that-never-came/

We are standing at a strange and exciting edge where disciplines that once moved in parallel are beginning to quietly overlap. Physicists exploring non-Hermitian dynamics, biologists studying living signaling networks, engineers building neuromorphic systems, artists imagining new forms of expression, and curious thinkers outside formal institutions are all circling similar questions....

#OpenDialogue #Interdisciplinary #CuriosityDriven #SharedLearning #FutureThinking

Revealing that no discipline is an island, we bring together Food Studies and Feminist Studies by way of a book-turned-bridge and a podcast-turned-boat. Plus, there’s rice pudding involved!

First, read this book: Food and Femininity by Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston. (Read Jennifer Braun’s review of it here: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.184)

Then, listen to the Feminist Food Studies episode of the CFS podcast, Digesting Food Studies (episode 10). Listen here: https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2324652/

The question remains, what does all of this have to do with a recipe for rice pudding? Inquiring minds like yours will definitely want to know…

#FoodAndFemininity
#FoodStudies
#FeministStudies
#Feminism
#RicePudding
#Interdisciplinary
#TheHomeCookbook