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  • New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course 19 March 2018

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    University of Leeds Registration is now open for “New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course”. This free two-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Leeds, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will bring together speakers in the humanities and social sciences from Europe, America, and Asia to share new perspectives on…

  • FAO ECRs: 13th Forum Literature and Science History, Berlin  

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    29 June 2018, 10:00–18:00   Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin   The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in collaboration with the Institute for German and Dutch Philology and Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of the Free University of Berlin, invites early career scholars to take part…

  • CFP Reminder – special issue of Foundation devoted to the cultural legacy of Frankenstein.

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    For further information, see: http://www.sf-foundation.org/node/233

  • BSLS Small Grants Scheme and Postgraduate Conference Fund

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    Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st March 2018.

  • CFP ‘The Gut-Brain Axis’: Cultural and Historical Perspectives

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    4-5 May 2018, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Research into the so-called ‘gut-brain axis’ has seen extraordinary growth in the past decade as microbiologists, neurologists and nutrition scientists have discovered new ways in which these supposedly separate parts of the body interact. Whereas our guts, brains, nervous systems, and behaviour were thought to be distinct,…

  • COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on SCIENCE & LITERATURE 2-4 July 2018 Paris, France

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    First call for papers  Following the successful two International Conferences on Science and Literature which took place in Athens and Poellau this Conference is the third to be organized under the aegis of the Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST. The third International Conference will be co-organized by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie -…

  • CFP: Mathematics and Modern Literature 3rd-4th May 2018

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    There is no First or Last Only Equality And who would rule Joins the majority. —Mina Loy Mathematics and Modern Literature is a collaborative, interdisciplinary conference exploring the ways in which writers active between the late nineteenth century and the twenty-first century engage with, represent or reflect upon mathematics in their work. We are delighted…

  • CFP: The Monster Conference

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    Friday 29 June 2018, Saturday 30 June 2018, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln (Conny Stuart Hall Building) The Monster Conference is a two-day, interdisciplinary conference, hosted by Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, celebrating the afterlife and reception of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the year of the 200th anniversary of its publication. Confirmed Keynoters: Angela Wright (Professor in English…

  • CFP:  New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course

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     New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course   19-20 March 2018 Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds, UK   In recent decades, global research activity around ageing and the life course has grown exponentially. Work in the clinical sciences, and in the established field of gerontology, has explored the challenges and opportunities of ageing…

  • CFP Maritime Animals: Telling Stories of Animals at Sea

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    Maritime Animals Telling stories of animals at sea     Two-day international conference National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK     April 26-27, 2019   Keynote speakers Thom van Dooren       William Gervase Clarence-Smith     In maritime narratives of humans, ships and the sea, animals are too often absent, or marginalised in passing references, despite the…

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