Month: June 2009

  • Royal Institution July Event

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    Tuesday 28 July 7.00pm–8.30pm Decoding the heavens Speaker: Jo Marchant In 1900, a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an ancient shipwreck, dating from around 70 BC. Lying unnoticed for months amongst the divers’ hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless lump of corroded rock. Then it cracked…

  • Conference: Eye of the Storm

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    Eye of the Storm: An interdisciplinary art and science conference on scientific controversy Location: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, UK From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells, The Arts Catalyst is bringing together an international line up of artists and scientists…

  • Conference: Romantic Disorder

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    Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850 Modern disciplines like geology, history, and anthropology often trace their origins to Romantic-era developments. “Literature,” as a distinct category of expressive writing also emerged in conjunction with other disciplines, a synthetic dialogue that would later be characterized as a contentious division between “two cultures.” So too…

  • Conference: Darwin, Tennyson, and their Readers

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    DARWIN, TENNYSON and their READERS: A Bicentenary Celebration, 1809-2009 2009 marks the bicentenary of the birth of both Charles Darwin and Alfred Tennyson. Our one-day conference will celebrate this event by exploring the interaction of literature and science in the Victorian period, mining the rich vein of research opened up by Professor Dame Gillian Beer…

  • Cfp: ‘Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism’

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    Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 13: Victorian Ecology Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural and built environment. Submissions are invited for our spring 2010 edition which will focus on ecological themes in Victorian Literature…

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