Month: October 2013

  • Cannibal Modernisms conference

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    Cannibal Modernisms King’s College London Programme in Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference,  7th-8th November, 2013. Keynote Speaker: Professor Xudong Zhang, Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University. “Politics of the Flesh:  The Animal in Redefining the Human in Modern Chinese Literature and Ideology”  Cannibal Modernisms will be two-day conference exploring the metaphorical implications…

  • Workshop on women’s scientific travelling to 1850

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    Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, UK 27-28 June 2014 Speakers to include: Professor Barbara Gates (University of Delaware), Professor Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University), and Professor Ann Shteir (York University, Ontario, Canada) Scholars have long been familiar with the scientific endeavours of late 19th-century women travellers…

  • ESHS conference update

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    The deadlines on the call for papers for the European Society for the History of Science conference in Lisbon in September 2014 have been extended as follows: Symposia Submission (theme and rationale of symposium and abstract of papers) – 10 Jan 2014 Decision regarding accepted symposia – 10 February 2014 Abstract Submission for stand-alone papers)–…

  • Science Museum poetry reading

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    A group of poets will be reading at the Science Museum in London on Wednesday 30th October from 7.30 in the evening. Join Simon Barraclough, Lorraine Mariner, Mick Delap, Sarah Westcott, Richard Barnett, Dominic McLoughlin, Malene Engelund, and Kelley Swain to explore space and science through verse. For more details, click here.

  • Staging Science

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    The Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination at the University of Westminster is holding a two-day event on Staging Science on December 6th and 7th, including a roundtable, a colloquium and a performance of the Pepper’s Ghost Illusion with Charles Dickens’s ‘The Haunted Man’. For more details, and to reserve places, click here: STAGING…

  • Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference

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    Call for papers: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter will be holding an interdisciplinary medical humanities conference for postgraduate researchers on the 24th and 25th July 2014. This conference aims to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines in a manner that reflects the broad scope…

  • New BSLS international officers

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    The BSLS executive has appointed two new international officers to sit on the executive committee. We are delighted to announce that Janine Rogers (Mount Allison University) and Folkert Degenring (Universität Kassel) have agreed to take up these new posts. Their role will be to promote the work of the BSLS in fostering research in the field…

  • Dawson, Gowan and Bernard Lightman (eds), Victorian Science and Literature (8 vols)

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    Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman (eds), Victorian Science and Literature, 8 vols (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011-12). 3408 pp. £700 hb (£350 per 4 volume set). ISBN 978-1848930919 and 978-1848930926. In their general introduction to their huge and handsome new anthology of Victorian writings about science, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman spell out very clearly…

  • Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society doctoral studentships

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    The RGS-IBG and the Royal Society have been awarded an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP), which will support three doctoral studentships each year for three years from 2013.  Academics from universities with potential projects, or with an interest in discussing opportunities, please contact Dr Catherine Souch at the RGS-IBG or Keith Moore at the…

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