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BSLS Conference, Cambridge, 9 April 2011 I am pleased to announce that we are now ready to take BSLS 2011 Conference Bookings online at: https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=1086&modid=1&compid=1 The full fee is £75, the reduced rate (for postgraduate students) is £55. Please remember that to attend you need to have paid your BSLS membership fee (£10/year); if you’ve…

Things are coming together for our annual conference on 9 April. Thank you for bearing with us while we’ve made new arrangements – we look forward to welcoming you to a packed day of stimulating discussion about literature and science. Further details of the location, and the arrangements, can be found by following the conference…

The shortlist for the BSLS book prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2010 is as follows: Avner Ben-Zaken, Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660 (Johns Hopkins University Press) Vike Plock, Joyce, Medicine and Modernity (University Press of Florida) Lisa Sarasohn, The Natural Philosophy of Margaret…

The Centre for History of Science is delighted to present the Spring series of ever-popular free Friday lunchtime lectures. All are welcome to attend, but please reserve your seat in advance to avoid disappointment! For descriptions of each lecture and to make reservations, please visit http://royalsociety.org/lunchtime-lectures-spring-2011/  Ghosts of Women Past, Friday 18 February, 1pm-2pm Dr Patricia…

The Scientific Instrument Society awards small grants, of up to £500 each, for research on the history of scientific instruments. SIS Research Grants are intended to support new research into the history of scientific instruments. They are not intended to fund activities to which an applicant is already committed. Grants may be used to cover…

Thursday 10 March 2011, 6.30pm Speaker: Professor Lorraine Daston, MaxPlanck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin At Queen Mary, University of London, Arts Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Mile End. The Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History is an annual memorial lecture held in honour of the distinguished Renaissance…

Hosted by the Museum of the History of Science and Mansfield College, Oxford on Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 The public event ‘Astronomy and Poetry’ was a rarity—one that brought together literature’s stirring power with that of expert scientific knowledge.  Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered radio pulsars as a postgraduate student, is currently Professorial Fellow…

Tuesday 8 February 7.00pm–8.30pm Speaker: Philip Ball  Philip Ball delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of ‘anthropoeia’ – the creation of artificial people – to explore what it tells us about our views on life, humanity, creativity and technology, and the soul. He suggests that, from the legendary inventor Daedalus to Goethe’s tragic…

The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 11th February 2011. St John’s College intends to offer up to six Visiting Scholarships during the period mid-July to mid September 2011. Applicants must be academic teaching staff who hold a tenured post in a UK university and will do so for the duration of the scholarship. …