Month: February 2008

  • The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures

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    St Mary’s College, Durham 4-6 April Programme Friday 4 April 15.00-17.00: Registration Section One: The Anglophone World 17.30-18.30 David Amigoni (Keele): Down the Darwinian Line(s): Inherited Characteristics in Biology, Literature and Culture *20.00-21.00 A. S. Byatt and Patricia Waugh (Durham): Darwinian Fictions (Elvet Riverside 140) This event is open to the public – admission free.…

  • Higgitt, Rebekah, Recreating Newton

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    Rebekah Higgitt, Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science (Pickering & Chatto 2007) 286pp. £60 Hb. ISBN 978-1851969067 Until relatively recently historians of science have been sceptical about biography as a mode through which to understand scientific practice, and sceptical about what has been seen as the inevitable partiality of…

  • ‘Between the Lines’ lecture: Philip Ball on his book on Paracelsus

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    Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford Tuesday 19 February, 7 pm In the next in an occasional series of lectures by authors of successful books in the history of science, Philip Ball will talk about his book, The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. Philip Ball has…

  • BSLS panel at RED conference, July 2008

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    The conference organised by the Reading Experience Database will include a guest panel from the BSLS. Titled ‘Scientists Reading Literature’, the panel will feature papers by Gowan Dawson (Leicester), Mary Noble (Princeton) and Stephen Jacyna (UCL) and will be chaired by Alice Jenkins (Glasgow): Gowan Dawson, ‘The novelist puts this and that together’: Richard Owen’s…

  • History of Science Society conference 2008

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    HSS 2008 Annual Meeting Call for Papers Pittsburgh, PA, USA 6-9 November 2008 (Joint meeting with PSA) The History of Science Society will hold its 2008 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA in the Omni William Penn hotel (site of the 1999 annual meeting). Proposals for sessions, contributed papers, and, for the first time, posters, must…

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