Month: October 2008
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CFP: Fourth Annual Science and the Public Conference
University of Brighton, June 13th and 14th 2009. Science and the public: uncertain pasts, presents and futures. The relationship between science and the public has provided fruitful material for analysis from a range of academic disciplines, and an important area of policy and practice, in recent years. Studies and experience have revealed a startling complexity,…
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Burney, Ian, Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination
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Laurie Garrison
Ian Burney, Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006). 224pp. £35 hb. ISBN 0719073766. The middle decades of the nineteenth century are well-known to be a period where popular culture was fascinated with deviant behaviours. These were the decades that saw the height of popularity of sensation novels and sensation drama, genres rife with…
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CFP: British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, 2009
The BSHS Annual Conference will take place at Stamford Hall, University of Leicester from 2 – 5 July 2009. The Programme Committee invites papers or sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine and their colleagues in the wider scholarly community on any theme, topic or period. The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for sessions or…
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Turner, Henry S., The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630
Henry S. Turner, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). 342 pp. £67 hb. ISBN 978-0199287383. This is a highly readable and substantial contribution to our understanding of early modern English drama. Turner’s project is a convincing challenge to anachronistic views of the separation of the arts and…
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Biocentre: Arts & Technology symposium
People Power for the Third Millennium:Technology, Democracy and Human Rights BioCentre is pleased to announce the fourth symposium of the series: Arts & Technology: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Policy Making, Tuesday 14th October 2008 at the National Theatre, Southbank, 2-5pm, followed by drinks reception. When it comes to developments in science and…
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CFP: Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question
Science Museum and Tate Modern, London, 23-24 January 2009 On 7 May 1959, C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture in Cambridge on the subject of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. A failed scientist and a moderately successful novelist, C. P. Snow drew on his experience as a Civil Service Commissioner to consider…
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Metrics and journals in the history of science, technology and medicine
The following statement is being printed in the editorial pages of many of the major journals in science studies: Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology and Medicine Editors We live in an age of metrics. All around us, things are being standardized, quantified, measured. Scholars concerned with the work of…
