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INCS annual conference, 27-30 March 2014, Houston, Texas The annual conference of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) is scheduled for March 27-30, 2014, in Houston, Texas. We invite wide responses to the conference theme, “Nineteenth-Century Energies.” November 15, 2013, is the deadline for proposals, which should be submitted via the conference site. Additional information about…

We are glad to announce that, during the last International Conference of History of Science, Technology and Medicine held in Manchester in July 2013, the Science and Literature Commission was established. The Commission has been approved by the General Assembly of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union for the…

Free symposium Thursday 17th October 2013, 6-9 pm Body and Mind: Mesmerism in Nineteenth Century Culture and Literature  Barts Pathology Museum This symposium will seek to explore the relationship between the sciences and Victorian mesmerism, psychical research and parapsychology. This event has been kindly sponsored by the British Society for Literature and Science. Speakers: Prof. William Hughes (Bath…

2nd International Conference, 24-26 April, 2014 CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS David Herman, Alan Richardson, Patricia Waugh, Mark Rowlands, Alan Palmer, Vyvyan Evans, plus a roundtable on interdisciplinarity with Ellen Spolsky and Michael Wheeler We invite proposals for 20 minute papers and preformed panels for the second international conference associated with the research network, Cognitive Futures in…

The Call for Papers for the Workshop on ‘Civic Science: Oliver Lodge, Physics, and the Modern University’ at the University of Birmingham on Saturday 9 November 2013 is due next week. To see read the full cfp as posted on the BSLS website, click here.

A debate at the Durham Book Festival, 9 October 2013, 8.30pm Professor Tom McLeish (molecular physicist) Professor Patricia Waugh (English studies) Ken MacLeod (science fiction writer) Dr Andrew Crumey (novelist and former physicist) Attendance is free but ticketed. For full details click here. Produced in association with the Institute of Advanced Study and the Hearing the…

Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £300 to advance and/or promote the study of literature and science. Examples of things for which the awards might be used are expenses for visiting speakers, seminar series and debates, and other funding to stage events on literature and science.  The scheme is not intended…

Are you a UK-based early career or doctoral student in the history of science, technology and medicine with an interest in the role of gender in science? Would you be interested in participating in an opportunity to shadow a working woman scientist to gain a better understanding of what scientists do and the challenges women…

Revealing Lives: Women in Science 1830-2000 Thursday 22 May – Friday 23 May 2014, The Royal Society, London How are we to recover, interpret and understand women’s experiences in science? Popular history delivers stories of a few ‘heroines’ of science, but perhaps these narratives do more to conceal than reveal? Where were the workaday women…