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  • BSLS Teaching Symposium reminder

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    British Society for Literature and Science Symposium on Teaching University of Westminster, Regent Street, London – 8th November, 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION – REMINDER DEADLINE 10th OCTOBER (open registration details to follow) Literature and Science is currently gaining popularity amongst undergraduates, but opportunities for discussing how – and why – to teach it…

  • Oxford Literature and Science seminars

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    There will be three sessions of the Oxford Literature and Science seminar this coming term. All are welcome. Monday 20 October, 2pm (St Cross Building SCR): Jay Labinger (California Institute of Technology), “Metaphoric vs. Literal Uses of Science: Entropy as Time’s (Double-Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and other Recent Literature.” Friday 14 November, 2pm (St Cross…

  • Oxford literature and medicine seminars

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    Oxford University’s Literature and Medicine Seminar is returning this Autumn. To see the programme of events, click here.

  • Science, Medicine and Culture seminars at Oxford

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    A new seminar series is starting at Oxford on science, medicine and culture in the nineteenth century. Here is the programme for this term. Wednesday 22nd October 2014   David Trotter, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge Signalling Madly: Telegraphy and Obsessive Behaviour in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction 5.30 – 7.00, Seminar Room…

  • Scientiae conference cfp

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    Scientiae Toronto 2015 27-29 May 2015, Victoria College, University of Toronto Keynotes: Anthony Grafton (Princeton) & Peter Dear (Cornell) The CFP for Scientiae 2015 (Toronto, 27-29 May) is now available online. Paper, panel, and round-table proposals are invited for the fourth annual international conference on the emergent knowledge practices of the early-modern period (1450-1750). The…

  • Biological Discourses conference

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    Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 A two-day conference at the University of Cambridge, 10-11 April 2015 The decades around 1900 are a crucial period for the impact of biological thought on the intellectual cultures of the western world. The impulses of Darwinism were taken up by intellectuals, writers and artists…

  • Poetic Theories: Can scientists learn from poets?

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    Institute of Art and Ideas video debate. According to Richard Dawkins ‘Science is poetic, ought to be poetic and has much to learn from poets’. Can poetry really contribute to the progress of science or is the poet’s eye ‘in fine frenzy rolling’ no more than an imaginative flourish? Mathematician and game theorist Ken Binmore,…

  • Jay Labinger speaking in Oxford

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    Professor Jay Labinger (California Institute of Technology) is visiting the Oxford English Faculty to speak on “Metaphoric vs. Literal Uses of Science: Entropy as Time’s (Double-Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and other Recent Literature”. His talk will be at 2 p.m. in the Faculty Senior Common Room on 20 October.

  • CFP for conference on the arts and feeling in C19th culture

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    Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck Birkbeck College, University of London July 16-18, 2015 Deadline: January 9, 2015 “The Arts and Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture” Keynote Speakers: Professor Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute of Art, London); Professor Tim Barringer (Yale University); Meaghan Clarke (University of Sussex); Professor Kate Flint (University of Southern California); Professor…

  • Launch of Kelley Swain’s new novel

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    Sunday 28 September, 2pm Double the Stars, a historical novel based on the life and adventures of astronomer Caroline Herschel, written by Kelley Swain (poet and former BSLS Secretary), will be being launched in the Octagon Room of Flamsteed House at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London! All welcome – click here for details.

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