The winner of the BSLS prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2011, as announced at the BSLS conference in Oxford, is Martin Willis, for Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920: Oculars Horizons (Pickering and Chatto). To read the book prize committee’s endorsement of this book, go to the BSLS book prize webpage.
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The BSLS AGM in Oxford on April 14th 2012 elected Dr John Holmes as Chair, Dr Daniel Cordle as Treasurer, Jessica Evans as Membership Secretary, Dr Stuart Robertson as Communications Officer, Prof. Sharon Ruston as a Member at Large, and Dr Peter Garratt as a Member at Large.
The Committee membership is now:
Dr John Holmes (University of Reading), Chair
Dr Daniel Cordle (Nottingham Trent University), Treasurer
Prof. Peter Middleton (University of Southampton), Secretary
Dr Stuart Robertson (Uppsala University), Communications Officer
Jessica Evans (University of Salford), Membership Secretary
Dr Vike Plock (University of Exeter), Member at Large
Prof. Sharon Ruston (University of Salford), Member at Large
Dr Peter Garratt (Northumbria University), Member at Large
Sat 15 to Sun 16 Sep 2012
Oxford Department of Continuing Education, Rewley House, 1
Wellington Square, Oxford
The historical intersection between mathematicians and theism is rich in culture and character. This weekend event will be made up of talks surveying a diverse and fascinating range of topics including the sect of the Pythagoreans, Newton’s views on the apocalypse, Charles Dodgson’s Anglican faith and Gödel’s proof of the existence of God.
For further information, please see http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/O12P114MAR.
If you have any questions, please email ppdayweek@conted.ox.ac.uk.
FOR: BSLS 2012 delegates
For those of you unfamiliar with Oxford, there is basic travel advice on the University webpages:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/maps_and_directions/directions.html
You are strongly advised to come to Oxford by train or bus, unless your hotel has car-parking facilities, as car parking in Oxford is limited; there is none at the St Cross building except by prior arrangement. If you are flying to Gatwick or Heathrow, then the ‘Airline’ coach service goes direct to Oxford and is therefore simpler than the trains via London.
The St Cross Building (not to be confused with St Cross College, which is elsewhere in town), is located at the edge of the main university area, reached by Longwall St from the south, and South Parks Rd from the north. For a Google map, see here.
If you are walking from the centre of town, the simplest route is east along Broad St., east along Holywell St., then north up St Cross Road.
The BBC News website has a five-day local weather forecast.
We have received the following nominations for the vacancies on the BSLS Executive. We will update this page if and when further nominations arrive.
CHAIR: Dr John Holmes (University of Reading), nominated by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and Sharon Ruston.
TREASURER: Dr Daniel Cordle (Nottingham Trent), nominated by Martin Willis and Sharon Ruston.
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY: Jessica Evans (University of Salford), nominated by Sharon Ruston and Wahida Amin.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE (1): Dr Peter Garratt (Northumbria University), nominated by Vike Martina Plock and Peter Middleton.
MEMBER-AT-LARGE (2): Prof. Sharon Ruston (University of Salford), nominated by Michael Whitworth and Martin Willis.
Online booking for the BSLS 2012 conference is now available here:
http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=1086&modid=1&compid=1
Please note that if you wish to book for the conference dinner at Merton, you must do so by Friday 30th March. (Because of the Easter break, the college needs notice of numbers far in advance.) Please note also that the price of the dinner is not inclusive of drinks.
The conference programme is now available here (at a slightly different address from the one previously ciruclated):
A number of financial awards for study towards the Mlitt and PhD are available at The University of Aberdeen under the Research Project Awards Scheme (RPAS) under the umbrella theme ‘The Emergence of a Scientific Culture’. For further details, see here:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/chpstm/prospective/costs-and-financial-support/
The closing date for applications is Friday 6 April 2012.
Dr Claire McKechnie will speak on ‘Fossils, monsters, and the Sydenham Crystal Palace dinosaurs: imagining extinct animals in Victorian science’ on Friday 23rd March, 6-7pm, in the University of St Andrews, Bute Medical Building, Lecture Theatre D. The lecture will be followed by a reception at the Bell Pettigrew Museum.
Applications are invited for BSLS small grants to advance and/or promote the study of literature and science. Examples of things for which the awards might be used are expenses for visiting speakers, seminar series and debates, and other funding to stage events on literature and science. The scheme is not intended for individual conference travel, but applications to stage special BSLS panels at appropriate conferences will be considered.
Applicants should be members of BSLS (with membership paid for 2012) and should apply by making a case, in up to 300 words, for how the award will contribute to the development of literature and science; a brief costing should be appended to the end of the application. Where funding is sought for BSLS panels a clear indication of the scope of the panel, and of its contribution to the understanding of literature and science, should be included; applications for panels at the 2012 BSLS conference are not eligible. Recipients of small grants are asked to acknowledge BSLS sponsorship appropriately in publicity for events and to provide a brief report on events.
The application should be e-mailed, as a Word attachment, to the BSLS Treasurer, Daniel Cordle (daniel.cordle@ntu.ac.uk), by April 5 2012. Applications will be considered by the BSLS Executive Committee and a total of up to £300 will be awarded. Applicants may apply for any amount up to £300. Successful applicants will be informed in April; in some instances a proportion of the amount applied for may be awarded. Queries about the scheme may be directed to Daniel Cordle, but no correspondence will be entered into about the decisions of the Committee. International members of BSLS are welcome to apply for the awards, but should note that they will be distributed in the form of bank cheques made out in pounds sterling. Serving members of the BSLS Executive Committee are not eligible to apply for the awards.
The University of Reading is recruiting a Research Fellow in Biology and the Humanities for four months starting from May. Here are the details of the job.
Job title : Research Fellow
Job reference : RS12015
Application closing date : 11/04/2012
Location : Whiteknights Campus
Salary : Grade 6 £27,578 to £30,122 pro-rata, per annum
Package : School of Biological Sciences, part-time 0.5 FTE, fixed term from 1 May to 31 August 2012
Job category/type : Fixed Term, Part time, Research
Job description :
We seek to appoint a highly motivated individual with a research background in either the humanities, the sciences or the social sciences and with an interest in the development of academic disciplines.
The post-holder will occupy a focal position in the organisation and dissemination roles associated with a workshop to be held in July 2012 and entitled ‘Cultivating Common Ground: Biology and the Humanities’. The project will study the reaction of biologists to humanities research and establish a long-term collaborative network.
| Informal contact detailsContact name: Nick Battey
Contact phone: +44 (0)118 378 6441 Contact email: n.h.battey@reading.ac.uk |
Alternative informal contact detailsContact name: John Holmes
Contact phone: +44 (0)118 378 7009 Contact email: j.r.holmes@reading.ac.uk
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Formal contact details
We invite you to apply online for this vacancy by clicking the link at the bottom of this page.
Alternatively, if you wish to apply using a hardcopy form please email recruitment@reading.ac.uk or contact Human Resources, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading RG6 6AH or Telephone +44(0)118 378 6771 (voicemail).
To view job details or apply on-line click here.