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  • The Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor Sharon Ruston

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    University of Salford Public Lecture: Tuesday, 22 February 2011 5.30pm — 7.00pm The next Professorial Inaugural Lecture of the semester will be given by Professor Sharon Ruston, Chair in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture School of English, Sociology, Politics, & Contemporary History and is entitled The Two Cultures of Literature and Science. The lecture will be…

  • University of London Science and the Arts Interdisciplinary Discussion Group

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    University of London Science and the Arts Interdisciplinary Discussion Group Inaugural Meeting, 2nd February 2011, 5-7pm Centre for Humanities and Health Seminar Room (Room F2), 5th Floor, East Wing, Strand Campus, King’s College London (Directions Below) ‘The idea of a war between two cultures is a futile one. Instead we all need to sit down…

  • CFP: Literature and Mathematics in Nineteenth-Century Europe

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    An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 16-18 May 2011. Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers or for panels on any aspect of the relationship between literature and mathematics in Europe during the long nineteenth century.  Proposals and papers should be in English.  Keynote speakers:  Professor Daniel Brown (University of Western Australia).…

  • Reminder: British Society for Literature and Science conference call for papers by Monday 20th December 2010

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    The 6th annual conference of the Society invites proposals for twenty-minute research papers addressing any aspect of the interaction between literature and science, medicine, and technology; collaborative panels of three themed papers; and papers or panels on the teaching of literature and science. Please email paper proposals of up to 300 words and a short…

  • CFP Bodies in Movement: Intersecting Discourses of Materiality in the Sciences and the Arts

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    The University of Edinburgh, May 28-29 2011 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Dr. Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University), Dr. Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Dr. Johanna Oksala (University of Dundee). The last two decades have witnessed a turn both to materiality and movement in critical, social and feminist theory. However, theorists of politics and movement…

  • Event Review: ‘The Cultural Production of Natural Knowledge, 1700-1850’, The Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick (30 October 2010)

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    At this one-day workshop, speakers and attendees examined together questions that went far beyond the ordinary distinctions of disciplines, periods or institutions.  The event was superbly organised by Warwick University Institute of Advanced Study Early Career Fellowship holders Sarah Easterby-Smith and Emily Senior, who also outlined the day’s themes (for an excellent summary, see go.warwick.ac.uk/naturalknowledge). …

  • Eyetopia: Victorian Dreams of Place & Vision, Friday November 5th, 1pm – 6pm

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    A literature and science colloquium at the Anatomy Museum, King’s College London, Strand Campus. All welcome. Speakers: David Amigoni, Isobel Armstrong, Audrey Linkman, Paul White and Alison Wood. How and what did the Victorians see? From blinking to staring, observing, voyeurism, to conjuring spectral visions of the dead, the Victorian imaginaire derived much of its power…

  • Event News: The Royal Society Prize for Science Books, October 21st 2010

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    At a thoroughly enjoyable public event yesterday, shortlisted authors and judges of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010 met to discuss the ins and outs of popular science books – why we read them, how authors write them and what the future holds.  After an introduction by Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal…

  • BSLS Conference 2011

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    CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Homerton College, Cambridge, from 8-10th April 2011. The Society invites proposals for twenty-minute research papers ad­dressing any aspect of the interaction between literature and science, medicine, and technology; collaborative panels of three themed pa­pers; and papers…

  • Cfp: The Book in Art and Science

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    The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) is holding a conference on ‘The Book in Art and Science’ in Washington DC, 14-17 July 2011.  Proposals for individual papers and panels are invited: the deadline is November 30 2010.  Questions to be addressed may include: What tensions exist between the book in…

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