Author: bsls

  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science, Medicine and Literature at the University of Oxford.

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    The fellowship is for two years, starting in September or October 2013. The successful applicant will be based in either the Faculty of English Language and Literature, or the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, depending on the area of specialism.   The proposed project may be in any area of science, medicine and literature studies,…

  • BSLS conference registration and provisional programme

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    The next BSLS conference will be taking place in Cardiff by Cardiff University and the University of Westminster from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th April. You can download a registration form and provisional programme here. For more details, including advice on travel and accommodation, please visit the conference website hosted by Cardiff University. BSLS Conference 2013 Registration…

  • The Common Denominator Conference, Leipzig University

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    CALL FOR PAPERS Organised by members and PhD students of the Institute for British Studies of Leipzig University, the aim of this three-day interdisciplinary conference (20-22 March 2014) is to bring together researchers from diverse academic and professional disciplines. By establishing mathematics as the common denominator between the individual panels, the links between mathematics and…

  • Friday lunchtime lectures at the Royal Society Centre for History of Science

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    BSLS members are warmly invited to attend the Royal Society’s forthcoming lunchtime lecture series. Lectures are free and are held at the Royal Society. Further details of the lectures, and the full spring 2013 programme, can be found on the Royal Society’s events website royalsociety.org/events, but BSLS members may be particularly interested in the following…

  • Science and Literature: The Great Divide?

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    We are pleased to announce the publication of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities vol.7 (2012) ‘Science and Literature: the Great Divide?’ The issue is available online here: http://www.mhra.org.uk/ojs/index.php/wph/index Constantly I felt I was moving among two groups – comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes,…

  • Explora Conferences on the History and Cultural Representations of Human Remains

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    Three conferences, on the history and cultural representations of human remains, are taking place over the coming months.  The third event, at the Hunterian Museum, is sponsored in part by the British Society for Literature and Science small grants scheme: Medical Museums and Anatomical Collections, Natural History Museum, Toulouse (4 Feb) – Explora Programme 1 Anatomical…

  • Non-Reproduction: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics

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    A two-day interdisciplinary symposium at Birkbeck, University of London supported by Birkbeck School of Arts and MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics) Confirmed speakers include: Dr Lisa Baraitser, Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck: Time and Again: Repetition, maternity and the non-reproductive Dr Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Roehampton University: Anti-, Non-, Post-Reproduction Birkbeck is hosting a two-day interdisciplinary symposium on…

  • Silent Spring project

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    Postgraduate Funding Opportunity Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment An AHRC collaborative skills project hosted by the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York and Birkbeck, University of London A number of travel bursaries are available for postgraduates and early career researchers to participate in this project, which uses Rachel…

  • 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…

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