Month: September 2008

  • PhD opportunity in literature and science

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    King’s College London / University of Stuttgart PhD-Net “Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period” Application deadline: 15/11/2008 The PhD-Net “Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period” is a bi-national PhD programme run collaboratively by King’s College London and the University of Stuttgart, which aims to forge interdisciplinary connections…

  • Conference: Thomas Beddoes, Doctor of Enlightenment

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    Friday 12 December 2008 at 9:00am Location: Royal Society, Kohn Centre A one-day conference organised in conjunction with the Centre for Life Writing Research, King’s College London. Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of British medicine. Part of a group of radical physicians friendly with Erasmus Darwin…

  • CFP: British Society for Literature and Science conference 2009

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    The 4th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Reading on 27th-29th March, 2009. Keynote speakers will include Dame Gillian Beer, formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge; Patrick Parrinder, Professor of English at the University of Reading; and Simon Conway Morris,…

  • Conference CFP – Global Risk

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    CALL FOR PAPERS: Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk An international, Interdisciplinary Conference Cardiff University, UK Thursday 2*Friday 3 July 2009 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Imre Szemán (McMaster University, Canada) Dr Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK) What are the cultural implications of living under conditions of global, manufactured risk? In the twentieth…

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