Month: March 2007

  • EVENT: ‘Science and the Public’ conference, May 2007

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    BSLS member Alice Bell writes to say: We’ve just put together a draft programme for the 2007 “Science and the Public�? conference (Imperial College London, 19th May). It’s going to be diverse and exciting day. Registration is now open, registration details and the draft programme are available from the Science and Communication Group site at…

  • New speaker for BSLS 2007

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    We are very glad to announce that Chris McCabe will be joining us to talk on Saturday. Chris is a research scientist, a geneticist and an author of several novels most recently Dirty Little Lies, under the name ‘John Macken’. He describes research he undertook for this novel in his recent Independent article ‘Hi-tech labs…

  • Link: ‘Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities’

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    ACUME2 is an EU funded centre, based at the university of Bologna, with partners across Europe. Its broad aim is to co-ordinate and develop new university curricula across European universities, curricula which explore and work in the interfaces between the sciences and humanities. As such it seems like an interesting link and a creative challenge…

  • CFP:‘H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy’

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    The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference, Imperial College/Conway Hall, London, 28-29 September 2007 Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited for this year’s H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference will be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September) and by Conway Hall, Red Lion…

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    PATHOLOGIES: Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences August 20-21, 2007 Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK Plenary Speakers: Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday To consider how the body has been pathologized is to ask questions of what it means to be human. As the originating…

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