Author: bsls
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‘Hardy and the Scientific Imagination’ Tuesday 2nd June 2015
You are warmly invited to join us on Tuesday 2 June, when Professor Angelique Richardson (Exeter) will be addressing our Seminar with her paper entitled: ‘Hardy and the Scientific Imagination’. We begin at 5:30pm in Room G24, Foster Court, University College London, Malet Place, London WC1. Directions to this building can be found here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps Professor Angelique Richardson’s paper will…
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Romanticism and the South West
Registration is now open for a one-day conference on the subject of ‘Romanticism and the South West’, a conference which re-assesses the importance of the South West in Romantic thought and writing. The conference aims to explore the importance of the South West for Romantic writers, with a particular emphasis on the following topics: Ecologically…
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People-powered science: citizen science in the 19th and 21st centuries, The Royal Society, Thursday 21 May 2015
Explore the humble beginnings of the citizen science movement From classifying the cosmos to tracking British bees, citizen science has captivated the imagination of the British public; online platforms such as Zooniverse have over 1 million participants. But, you might be surprised to hear that this isn’t a new thing. Long before the internet put data at…
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CFP: Concepts of Simultaneity, University of Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, 3 – 5 December 2015.
The term simultaneity is used in a variety of contexts to denote phenomena of “same-time-ness” – in daily life as well as in specific scientific fields like physics, technology, or ergonomics (among many others). However, despite its widespread occurrence, the term does not specify whether the state described is one of mere temporal concurrence or…
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Analogy in Literature and Science: Bursaries for Doctoral Students
A British Academy-funded workshop will be held in Cambridge on analogy in literature and science, 3-4 September 2015. How do we identify and select analogies in and between our primary sources, and how do we use analogies in our own arguments? Which ideas about analogy can we usefully borrow or adapt from cognate areas? Workshop…
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PhD studentships in Literature and Science at University of Westminster
The Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster is pleased to offer two studentships to prospective PhD students to begin in September 2015. In the UK Government’s REF 2014 assessment of research activity, English at Westminster was ranked 28th out of 89 departments in Britain, with 79% of its work…
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Postdoctoral position at University of Liverpool
William Noble Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool For more details please click on the link below- http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/research/r-587941/
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PhD Studentship at the Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent
The Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent, offers a fully-funded PhD to work with Dr Rebekah Higgitt. Literary angles on the following suggested topics are welcome (the final topic is specifically textual in nature): History of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Royal Greenwich Observatory, especially in the 20th century Science and/or…
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Lecturer in Medical Humanities
The University of Bristol invites applications to a full-time permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in Medical Humanities. Candidates who can demonstrate excellence in the teaching and research of Medical Humanities as it intersects with any area or period of English Literature are eligible to apply. For more information please follow this link.
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Leviathan and the Air Pump: Thirty Years On
Friday 1 May, 5:30 to 7:00pm Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW Robert Boyle’s air-pump experiments in 1659 provoked a lively debate over the possibility of a vacuum. The air-pump, a complicated and expensive device, became an emblem of the new experimental science that was promoted by the Royal Society. However, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes…
