Author: bsls
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Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century Reading Group
The reading group on Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century is a collaborative venture between Newcastle University and the Literary and Philosophical Society. The group is open to scholars, students and researchers as well as members of the public with an interest in nineteenth-century science, pseudoscience and literature. For each session we read a combination…
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BSLS 2015 conference – call for papers
The tenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Liverpool, on 16-18 April 2015. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Keith Barnham (Imperial College London), Dr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge), and Dr Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London). The BSLS invites proposals…
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A Pre-Raphaelite Museum
As part of this year’s Oxford Open Doors programme, BSLS Chair John Holmes will be giving a talk explaining how the Pre-Raphaelites became involved in the design of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the 1850s, and how the Museum itself encapsulates in stone, iron, and glass its own scientific conception of the truth…
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Darwin and FitzRoy by Juliet Aykroyd (part of the Weather, Arts and Music (WAM) festival)
Location: Progress Theatre, the Mount, off Christchurch Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5HL (www.progresstheatre.co.uk) marketing@progresstheatre.co.uk Performance dates: September 8th to 13th, 7.30pm (doors at 7pm) **Please note there will be a gala reception on the final night, where ticket-holders will enjoy a wine and canapé reception, followed by a Conversation with the playwright Juliet Aykroyd, –…
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(Re)Imagining the Insect: Natures and Cultures of Invertebrates, 1700–‐1900.
A One Day Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Warwick. With Keynote Addresses from Dr. Charlotte Sleigh and Dr. Kate Tunstall Saturday 7th March 2015 There are around 800,000 species of insect. From the honey on our breakfast cereal, lice infesting our hair to cockroaches invading our homes: insects are, and always have been, implicated…
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The ‘Exotic’ Body in 19th-century British Drama
The ‘Exotic’ Body in 19th-century British Drama (Oxford, 25-26 September) A full programme and registration details for this conference are now available. Click here to link to the conference page, and here for the booking site. For further information contact Tiziana Morosetti.
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BSLS Symposium on Teaching Literature and Science
British Society for Literature and Science Symposium on Teaching University of Westminster, Regent Street, London – 8th November, 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION Literature and Science is currently gaining popularity amongst undergraduates, but opportunities for discussing how – and why – to teach it remain thin on the ground. This one-day symposium, led by…
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Bergen conference on Ageing
The call for papers for the interdisciplinary conference on AGEING: HISTORIES, MYTHOLOGIES, TABOOS at the University of Bergen in January 2015 closes on 1st September. To see the details, click below Bergen Ageing conference cfp
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The Poetics of Knowledge cfp
The Poetics of Knowledge University of Bern, 5-7 November 2015 One very common narrative about Victorian Britain is that it was an age of ground-breaking scientific discoveries: Charles Lyell significantly extended the age of our planet; Charles Darwin forced a rethinking of the origins and development of life; Michael Faraday and James Maxwell Clark paved the way…
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CFP on Science and Culture in the early 20th century
Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century Institute of Historical Research, London 22-24 April 2015 Engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of “Being modern”, across culture in Britain and the western world in the years around the First World War. Today, historical studies of literature, art, design, lifestyle and…
