I understand that there are still slots for papers at this conference, even though the deadline has just expired:
‘Literature and Science’ The 4th annual conference of The Australasian Association for Literature
University of NSW Monday July 5-Tuesday July 6, 2010
Keynote Speakers:
Brian Boyd (University of Auckland)
Claire Colebrook (Penn State University)
Paul Giles (University of Sydney)
As we prepare to [...]
Calendar of Events
July 5, 2010
CFP – Literature and Science conference in Australia
July 1, 2010
‘Theories and Methods: Literature, Science and Medicine’ training programme
Applications are now open for the third event in the AHRC-funded ‘Theories and Methods: Literature, Science and Medicine’ training programme (www.litscimed.org.uk). The event will take place 1-2 July 2010 hosted by the Royal Institution of Great Britain and the National Maritime Museum, in London.
Day 1: Using History of Science Archives (Royal Institution of Great Britain).
Day [...]
June 17, 2010
Cfp: British Nuclear Culture: Themes, Approaches and Perspectives
Call for papers
School of History, University of Liverpool, 17 -18 June 2010
Since the publication of Paul Boyer’s seminal study By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1985, the examination of nuclear culture has mainly been conducted within the context of the United States. In spite [...]
June 15, 2010
Cfp: ‘Textures’: 6th European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
The SLSA-EU 2010 conference is dedicated to exploring fabrics, structures, surfaces, and interfaces in a world that has been transformed to a large extent through technoscience and networked media. This transformed world is highly textured, partly through verbal and non-verbal ‘texts’ but also by mixtures of human-made and given environments whose complexity offers resistance to [...]
May 28, 2010
Oxford Literature and Science Seminar
University of Oxford
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Literature and Science Seminar
Graduate Forum: Stella Pratt-Smith (University of Oxford), ‘Mind over Matter: From Sensation to Precision in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Electricity’.
Will Tattersdill (King’s College, London), ‘Two Sides of the Same Page: Science and Fiction in the Late Victorian Periodical.’
Friday 28 May 2010, 2pm.
English Faculty, St Cross Building, [...]
May 10, 2010
Originality in science
Ian McEwan speaks at a Royal Society of Literature event
Originality in science is synonymous with being first; originality in the arts is somewhat different. At what point do these two creative endeavours overlap? Ian McEwan is a novelist who has often taken science as a subject: Enduring Love was about a science writer, Saturday about [...]
April 30, 2010
Oxford Literature and Science Seminar, events in April and May 2010
University of Oxford
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Literature and Science Seminar
Please note the different days, times, and venues for each week’s session
Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford), ‘Childhood Sexuality and the Victorian Novel.’
Friday 30 April 2010, 3.30pm.
English Faculty, St Cross Building, Room 10.
Professor Bruno Latour (Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris), ‘A Compositionist Manifesto.’
Wednesday 12 [...]
April 8, 2010
BSLS 2010 Conference
The BSLS Conference for 2010 will be hosted by Northumbria University in Newcastle-on-Tyne on 8-10 April 2010. Details of keynote speakers will follow shortly. A call for papers will be issued in September. In the meantime, if you have any queries, please contact Dr Vike Plock at Northumbria.
BSLS 2010 Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 5th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Northumbria University in Newcastle on 8-10 April 2010.
Keynote speakers will include John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science at Exeter University; Nick Daly, Professor of English Literature at University College Dublin; and Patricia Waugh, Professor of English [...]
March 31, 2010
Cfp: ‘Booms’ of Popular Science Publishing
Dr Hauke Riesch and Dr Alice Bell are seeking contributions for a one-day symposium on 20th century popular science: the morning devoted to the apparent post-Einstein boom in popular science publishing, the afternoon considering post-Hawking works.
The event is to be held at Imperial College London on 31st March, 2010. It will comprise of a series [...]