Author: bsls

  • Constructing Scientific Communities – New Web Site Launched

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    Oxford University’s collaborative project ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’ now has a web site. For information, videos, calls for proposals and more, click here

  • JLS call for reviews

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    The Journal of Literature and Science (http://www.literatureandscience.org) is now looking for reviewers to review a wide range of articles in the field literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. The JLS is unique in reviewing journal articles rather than books in the fields of literature and science and the history and philosophy of…

  • Conference on Ageing

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    This is a reminder of the call for papers on the interdisciplinary conference on Ageing: Histories, Mythologies and Taboos to be held in Bergen on 30-31 January 2015. To read the call, click below: Bergen Ageing conference cfp For further information please visit the website: http://www.uib.no/fg/litt_vit/70975/interdisciplinary-conference-ageing-histories-mythologies-and-taboos  

  • Science at the Seaside project

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    ‘Science at the Seaside’ is a collaborative project with Professor John Plunkett (Exeter University), Dr Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (Bath Spa University) and Ilfracombe Museum. It is funded by North Devon Fisheries Local Action Group [FLAG] and will run from October 2013–October 2014. ‘Science at the Seaside’ seeks to engage local communities with a neglected aspect of…

  • Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

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    Institute of Modern Languages Research, London, UK 27-28 June 2014 Fee: £10 / £5 (concs.) Speakers to include: Professor Barbara Gates (University of Delaware) Professor Ann Shteir (York University, Ontario, Canada) Scholars have long been familiar with the scientific endeavours of late 19th-century women travellers like Isabella Bird and Mary Kingsley, but these figures have…

  • Sustainable development and culture symposium

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    The international Routes to Sustainability network is holding a symposium at the University of Ferrara on Routing Sustainable Development towards a Culture of Wellbeing on Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 October 2014. It will investigate sustainability and wellbeing in the domains of economics, environment, politics and culture, addressing theoretical issues and case studies in an interdisciplinary…

  • Essay competition on science communication

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    At the recent PCST conference in Bahia, the issue of the deficit model was raised, in the session on science communication and its audiences. To stimulate the debate and to contribute to the community, the journal Public Understanding of Science would like to announce an essay competition. The essay title is as follows: “In Science Communication,…

  • Special issue on Victorian literature and science

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    Critical Survey Deadline: October 1, 2014 The journal Critical Survey seeks submissions of completed 4000-5000 word articles exploring literary engagements with Victorian sciences. From Darwin, to physiology, to pre-Freudian psychology, to engineering and technology, and beyond, Victorian Britain experienced rapid change – but often seemed ambivalent about whether, as Robert Browning’s Andrea del Sarto puts…

  • Time and Temporality Network

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    The second meeting of the Time and Temporality Network will take place at the University of Warwick on Friday 13th June 2014. It will be a one-day workshop focusing on temporality in relation to medicine and what might be called disorderd or atypical experiences of the body and mind. ​ Speakers and respondents include: John Fletcher (English, University of Warwick) Ulrika…

  • Carolyn Burdett speaking on psychology and aesthetics at the fin de siecle

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    Dr Carolyn Burdett will be giving a paper entitled ”Shareability and contagion: psychology and aesthetics at the fin de siecle” at the UCL seminar on Science and Literature at 5.30pm on Tuesday 3rd of June. As part of our series of seminars on Science and Literature, this event is taking place in UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology.Directions to this building can be…

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