Author: bsls

  • Popular Science, Altered Consciousness and Twentieth-Century Culture

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    Call for expressions of interest Please respond to k.price@qmul.ac.uk A call for papers will be circulated in 2013 ‘Popular Science, Altered Consciousness and Twentieth-Century Culture’ Date: November 2013 (one-day conference to be held on a Saturday) Venue: Queen Mary, University of London Funded by the British Society for the History of Science Supported by the Centre…

  • From Microscopes to Cloud Cameras: the Poetry of Science

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    In October, I teamed up with the poet Lesley Saunders at a poetry event at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. Lesley read from her new book of poems, Cloud Camera (Two Rivers Press), while I read a selection of poems by modern poets on the science of life. A podcast of the two talks…

  • London Interdisciplinary Group meeting at the Science Museum

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    The next meeting of the London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group will take place on 22nd January 2013 from 6-8pm at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre. Details are on the group site. At this meeting our speakers Helen Barron, Matteo Farinella, Ludmilla Jordanova, Toby Ward and Lucy Wilford will discuss vision and images from the perspectives of history, medicine (psychiatry), art and neuroscience. Each…

  • BSLS Conference 2013 – Call for Papers Reminder

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    The deadline for the submission of abstracts for papers and panels is now only a week away (Friday December 7th). There is already healthy interest, so the conference organisers would appreciate hearing from all members aiming to give a paper. As always we want to do our best to accommodate everyone. The email address for…

  • Newsletter

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    The first BSLS Autumn Newsletter is now available to Members. Click here to access it (log-in required). The Newsletter offers reports on the activity of the Society and its members over the past year, and it will be made publicly available in 2013.

  • A Pre-Raphaelite Museum

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    In the 1850s, when Oxford University scientists were seeking inspiration for their new Museum, they turned to the bold, avant-garde art movement of their day – the Pre-Raphaelites. Guided by John Ruskin’s call for ‘truth to nature’ in art, their principles and practices shaped the decoration of this intricate and stunning building. In a talk…

  • CFP: Cognitive Futures in the Humanities conference

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    Cognitive Futures in the Humanities 1st International Conference 4-6 APRIL 2013, BANGOR UNIVERSITY SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS How can the term ‘cognitive humanities’ be defined? What methodological innovation can take place at the intersection of cognitive science, literature and the arts? We invite 20-minute paper submissions and poster submissions for a major interdisciplinary conference organized…

  • Martin Willis’s Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 wins ESSE book prize

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    Hearty congratulations to Martin Willis, whose book Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920: Ocular Horizons (Pickering & Chatto, 2011), winner of the BSLS Book Prize in 2011, has recently won the ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) award in ‘Cultural Studies in English’.

  • Enlightenment, Science and Culture in the East Midlands conference

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    Enlightenment, Science and Culture in the East Midlands c1700-1900 Saturday 22nd June 2013 University of Derby   This conference examines the impact of scientific and intellectual cultures in the English East Midland counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland between 1700 and 1900. Social and economic developments in the period brought major changes…

  • BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2013

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    The British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2013 University of Kent, Canterbury 3 – 5 January 2013 This annual 3-day event gives postgraduates in the history of science, technology and medicine a chance to get to know each other and to present their work to a wider audience. The conference is organised…

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