Author: bsls

  • British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2014

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    The BSHS Annual Conference will take place from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 July 2014 at the University of St Andrews. The Programme Committee now invites proposals for individual papers and for sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine, and from their colleagues in the wider scholarly community, on any theme, topic or period.…

  • Lecturer in Literature and Medicine

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    The University of Bristol is inviting applications to a full-time permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in English Literature (Literature and Medicine). If you are interested in applying for this post, click here for the job description and further particulars.

  • Literature and science talks in Oxford this week

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    There are three talks taking place this week on literature and science at Oxford University. Here are the details: Monday 18th November: Victorian Graduate Seminar (History of Book Room, English Faculty): 17.15 onwards. Gowan Dawson (Leicester): ‘“Working the Public Up for Science”: Thomas Henry Huxley and the Problems of Popularization.’ Tuesday 19th November: Oxford Centre…

  • Oxford Literature and Science Seminar, 15 November 2013

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    The Oxford Literature and Science seminar meets on Friday 15 November, 2pm, in Seminar Room A, the English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford. All are welcome. Friday 15 November, 2pm Dr Cathryn Setz (St Anne’s College), ‘Stone Age Science: Contra-Darwinian Discourse in Modernist Magazines.’

  • Guardian Post

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    My recent Guardian blog post on Mary Wollstonecraft and natural history might be of interest to BSLS members. Sharon Ruston (Lancaster University)

  • Interdisciplinary conference on horror and the supernatural in Victorian culture

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    The University of Sussex is hosting a one day interdisciplinary conference on 19 June 2014 to explore and interrogate cultural cross-currents between nineteenth-century visual culture, science and social practice, particularly where these concern attitudes to, and instances of, the supernatural and horrific. To download the call for papers, click below: Sights and Frights CFP

  • Commission on Literature and Science: updated cfp

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    Here is a new, fuller call for papers for the International Conference on Science and Literature, 10-11 July 2012, Athens, Greece. CALL FOR PAPERS-COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE The call for papers closes on January 31st 2014. For any further questions please send an email to gvlahakis@yahoo.com.

  • Science and Technology in the European Periphery

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    The 9th meeting of STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 1-3 September 2014. It is organized by the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), a research centre associated with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and the Faculty of Sciences and Technology…

  • Interdisciplinary workshop on reproduction

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    The 9th annual Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction at Cambridge will be held on Friday Nov. 15th from 9AM-7PM. (Registration closes Friday Nov. 8th @ 3PM!) Presentations this year range from oocyte preservation, to the emerging meanings of cells, to the role of motherhood. This year’s aim is to consider how reproduction is constructed and communicated…

  • Chain Reaction: an art/science show at the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, November 22-December 21, 2013

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    Chain Reaction is an attempt to combine science and art in a way that embodies approaches taken by historians of science. On a simple level, it celebrates a simple piece of experimental procedure, the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), which is 30 years old in 2013.  This process is carried out in the lab by automated…

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