Author: bsls
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Making Waves: Oliver Lodge and the Cultures of Science, 1875-1940
Call for Papers: Workshop 1: Civic Science: Oliver Lodge, Physics, and the Modern University, University of Birmingham, Saturday 9 November 2013 The physicist Oliver Lodge spent most of his scientific career at the newly founded University College Liverpool before joining the University of Birmingham as its first Principal in 1900, retiring in 1919. This workshop,…
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Victorian Body Parts Conference
Registration is now open for ‘Victorian Body Parts’ at Barts Pathology Museum on Saturday 14th September 2013. Please register here: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/english/vbp/. The conference fee is £15 (£10 for students/unwaged). Programme: 09.30-09.50 Registration and Refreshments 09.50-10.00 Opening Remarks Carla Valentine (Technical Assistant Curator, Barts Pathology Museum) Beatrice Bazell and Emma…
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CFP: ‘Neo-Victorian Experiments’
Special Issue of Victoriographies (Edinburgh University Press, Autumn 2014) If the nineteenth century has been characterised by the important scientific discoveries made at the time, it is hardly surprising that these innovations shaped the imagination of writers and artists of the period. What is perhaps less easy to understand is the persisting fascination that these nineteenth-century…
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The next BSLS conference
We are delighted to announce that the next BSLS conference will take place at the University of Surrey in Guildford on 10-12 April 2014. The call for papers will be posted with more details at the beginning of September.
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Women in Science Research Network
The Women In Science Research Network was launched at the international Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Manchester last week. The WISRNet has now launched a mailing list to bring together historians, archivists and practising scientists to discuss women’s participation in science institutions and learned societies in Britain since 1830. The…
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The Common Denominator – Call for Papers (reminder)
‘The Common Denominator’, 20-22 March 2014, University of Leipzig A postgraduate conference in mathematics and culture ** Call for papers extended until 24 July 2013 ** Focusing on the wider British context, the aim of this three-day interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers from diverse academic and professional disciplines. By establishing mathematics as the common…
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Musicolepsy
Musicolepsy – new poetry collection In case members of the BSLS were interested, I thought I’d let you know about this: my poetry collection, Musicolepsy, from which I read excerpts at the recent BSLS Conference 2013 in Cardiff, has now been published by Shoestring Press in Nottingham. The book features poems on cosmological, neurological and…
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CFP: Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian
An International Two-Day Conference at the Humanities Research centre, University of York, UK 26 and 27 September 2013 (pdf CFP) The ordinary and the everyday are intuitively self-evident, yet notoriously elusive. Efforts to define “ordinary language” or “everyday practice” have preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines: philosophers, historians, sociologists, political theorists, geographers and critics of literature…
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New SF poetry anthology
Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UK Edited by Russell Jones Blasting into the future, across alien worlds and distant galaxies, fantastic technologies and potential threats to humanity, Where Rockets Burn Through brings science fiction and poetry together in one explosive, genre-busting collection. Discover an array of poems by more…
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CFP: Neo-Victorian Experiments
CFP: ‘Neo-Victorian Experiments’ Special Issue of Victoriographies (Edinburgh University Press, Autumn 2014) If the nineteenth century has been characterised by the important scientific discoveries made at the time, it is hardly surprising that these innovations shaped the imagination of writers and artists of the period. What is perhaps less easy to understand is…
