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Commission on Science and Literature – nominations to the Council Board
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…
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CFP: Journal of Science and Popular Culture
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…
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CFP Special Issue Journal of Bioethical Inquiry: “Investigating public trust in expert knowledge: ethics, narrative and engagement”
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…
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BSLS Postgraduate Conference Fund
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…
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THE BODY AND PSEUDOSCIENCE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
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…
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CFP: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century
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…
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Call for Participants: “Pasts, Presents and Futures of Medical Regeneration” Workshops
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…
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Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century Research Group
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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BSLS Book Prize
Nominations are now being accepted for the BSLS Book Prize 2015. Inaugurated in 2007, the annual British Society for Literature and Science book prize is awarded for the best book in the field of literature and science published that year. Any book is eligible, but can only be considered if it is nominated either by…
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ESSE 2016 Seminar: CFP Narrated Science/Scientific Storytelling
Please click on this link CfP MEYER ROSSINI Extended Hnet for the full cfp.
