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ScienceHumanities Summer School MONDAY 20 MAY – FRIDAY 24 MAY 2019
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UK MONDAY 20 MAY – FRIDAY 24 MAY 2019 Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford) A free, international, postgraduate summer school In 2019 Cardiff University’s ScienceHumanities research group will host the second week-long International Summer School dedicated to the examination of the relations between the humanities and the sciences…
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CFP: Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change
A special issue of HumanitiesDeadline for submissions: 31 August 2019For further information and to submit a manuscript, visit the special issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/environmental_humanities ‘Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change’ investigates the various ways in which we experience climate change. ‘Climate,’ writes Mike Hulme, ‘is weather which has been cultured, interpreted and acted on by the imagination, through story-telling and using material technologies’ (Weathered: Cultures of Climate). Whereas…
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Vernon Lee 2019: An Anniversary Conference
30-31 May 2019: British Institute of Florence Keynote lectures by Carolyn Burdett and Christa Zorn. The conference will also include a private performance of Lee’s pacifist work, The Ballet of the Nations, staged at her Florentine home, Il Palmerino. ‘Vernon Lee 2019’, an international conference organised by the University of Surrey and the University of…
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CFP: Beastly Modernisms, Glasgow, September 2019
Please click through for links to the full CFP Beastly Moderisms and Call for Poems Beastly Modernisms
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DEADLINE APPROACHING ‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care 1800-1948’
University of Nottingham, Humanities Building, Friday 11 January 2019, 10.00 – 16.00. Keynote speaker: Professor Christine Hallett (University of Huddersfield) This one-day workshop seeks to bring together researchers with an interest in the history and representations of healthcare, medicine, nursing, hospitals, and public health in the UK between 1800 and 1948, with a particular focus…
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BSLS Winter Symposium – Registration Open
Registration is now open for the symposium: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsls-winter-symposium-2018-tickets-52160049111 There is also a draft programme on the website.
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CFP: Global Genetic Fictions, Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds, 25-26 April 2019
As genetic science develops at breakneck speed, cultural representations register in their form and content changing ideas about the self and personhood, consciousness, behaviour and motivation, heredity, and the boundaries of the human body. And yet, ‘western’ science is only one of a number of frameworks that provide explanations for these phenomena. Knowledge, assumptions and…
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Full Moon: A Night of Poetry and Science
***50% discount available to BSLS members***. An unmissable evening where poetry and science meet and share a stage, a night that will sparkle with readings and short talks, when we will hear the poetry of science and see how the scientific entreprise opens up realms of poetry. Join us on this epic journey of…
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TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Project between the University of Roehampton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew’s imperial archive: Cataloguing Economic Botany in the Miscellaneous Reports, 1841-1928 This studentship offers the opportunity to research and study the history, composition and arrangement of a major collection held in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: the…
