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  • Commission on Science and Literature – Upcoming Conferences

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      The next international conference of the Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit) will take place from 7th to 9th September 2016 at Pöllau, Austria and will be hosted by Echophysics and the Victor Franz Hess Society, with the support of the European Physical Society. The call for papers will be announced in due course,…

  • Environment, Economy & Climate Change: Stages in Transition

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    4-5 July 2016, Department of Drama and Theatre Arts (George Cadbury Hall), University of Birmingham, UK   Conference organisers: Dr Vicky Angelaki and Professor Graham Saunders   We are witnessing a growth in new work in theatre and performance that deals with the current intricate relationship between environment and economy, referred to by some as…

  • Commission on Science and Literature – nominations to the Council Board

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    The Commission on Science and Literature is seeking nominations for the Council Board by Friday 30th October. We have received nominations for President, Treasurer and Secretary, and for the regional officers for Asia, Australasia and South America. We would especially welcome nominations for the Webmaster, the PhD student member of the council, and the regional officers for…

  • CFP: Journal of Science and Popular Culture

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    Science permeates culture at multiple levels, from the technology in our daily lives to our dreams of other worlds in fiction. Working with a distinguished international board, the Journal of Science and Popular Culture aims to create a unique forum in which to analyse, chronicle, and interpret the interrelationship of science and society. Contributions from…

  • CFP Special Issue Journal of Bioethical Inquiry: “Investigating public trust in expert knowledge: ethics, narrative and engagement”

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    We invite the submission of papers for a forthcoming (2017) special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry on “Investigating public trust in expert knowledge: ethics, narrative and engagement”. The special issue will be the first of its kind to examine the ethics of public trust in expert knowledge systems in emergent and complex global societies. Through…

  • BSLS Postgraduate Conference Fund

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    The BSLS is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for postgraduate student members. The Postgraduate Conference Fund will offer two bursaries of £200 for BSLS postgraduate members toward the cost of presenting research papers at conferences (this excludes the BSLS annual conference, which has its own postgraduate bursary scheme). In addition to funding attendance…

  • THE BODY AND PSEUDOSCIENCE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

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    Interdisciplinary Conference 18 June 2016 Newcastle University Call for Papers ‘Sciences we now retrospectively regard as heterodox or marginal cannot be considered unambiguously to have held that status at a time when no clear orthodoxy existed that could confer that status upon them’ (Alison Winter, 1997). The nineteenth century witnessed the drive to consolidate discrete…

  • CFP: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century

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    CFP: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century St Anne’s College, Oxford 10th – 11th September 2016   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: CHRISTOPHER HAMLIN AND LAURA OTIS   In our current ‘Information Age’ we suffer as never before, it is claimed, from the stresses of an overload of information, and the speed of global networks. The…

  • Call for Participants: “Pasts, Presents and Futures of Medical Regeneration” Workshops

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    What does it mean to ‘regenerate’, and what are the scientific, social, cultural and ethical implications of regeneration in its various forms? From biomedical engineering to stem cell therapy, the growth of regenerative medicine in the modern context has the potential to address challenges raised by stretched supplies of organ donors, chronic diseases and ageing…

  • Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century Research Group

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    The next meeting of the group will be at the Lit and Phil Library, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 28 October between 6.00 pm  and 7.30 pm. Dr. Emily Alder, Edinburgh Napier University, will introduce a session entitled ‘Edith Nesbit’s Dreadful Researches’.   Edith Nesbit is best known for her children’s stories (Five…

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