Author: bsls

  • Symposium: Euclidean Geometry in Nineteenth-Century Culture

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    A symposium on Euclidean geometry in nineteenth- and early twentieth- century British culture will be held in Cambridge, UK, 1-2 October 2009. The event will be highly interdisciplinary and easily accessible to non- mathematicians. Speakers include Professors Dame Gillian Beer, Joan L. Richards, Jeremy Gray, Marilyn Gaull, Linda Henderson and Robin Wilson. We aim to…

  • CFP: (Dis)Entangling Darwin

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    (Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections University of Porto, Portugal 2009 marks the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth (12 February 1809) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species (24 November 1859). The University of Porto CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) is holding a special conference to…

  • Cfp: Nature and the Long Nineteenth Century

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    A one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference exploring intersections of the natural world with nineteenth-century literature and culture, to be held at the University of Edinburgh, Saturday, 6 February 2010. Keynote speakers: Dr Martin Willis, University of Glamorgan, Dr Christine Ferguson, University of Glasgow, Professor Nick Daly, University College Dublin. In the twenty-first century, environmentalism and the…

  • Conference reminder: Darwin/ Tennyson bicentenary

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    Please note that the Darwin Tennyson and their Readers bicentenary conference takes place on Saturday 17th October 2009 not 17th September.

  • Darwin on Stage, Darwin in Poetry

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    On Wednesday 8th July at 2 p.m. at the Cambridge Darwin Festival, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and John Holmes will be interviewing a number of contemporary writers about the impact of Darwin and his ideas on their work. Speakers will include the playwrights Craig Baxter and Peter Parnell and the poets Ruth Padel, John Barnie and Kelley…

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    THE EMBALMER’S BOOK OF RECIPES: a new novel by Ann Lingard Indepenpress   Ann Lingard is a former scientist, and founder of  SciTalk (www.scitalk.org.uk) the free resource that helps fiction-writers to find out about modern science, and meet and talk to scientists; all her own novels have some science and scientists in them, but are…

  • Royal Institution July Event

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    Tuesday 28 July 7.00pm–8.30pm Decoding the heavens Speaker: Jo Marchant In 1900, a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an ancient shipwreck, dating from around 70 BC. Lying unnoticed for months amongst the divers’ hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless lump of corroded rock. Then it cracked…

  • Conference: Eye of the Storm

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    Eye of the Storm: An interdisciplinary art and science conference on scientific controversy Location: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, UK From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells, The Arts Catalyst is bringing together an international line up of artists and scientists…

  • Conference: Romantic Disorder

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    Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850 Modern disciplines like geology, history, and anthropology often trace their origins to Romantic-era developments. “Literature,” as a distinct category of expressive writing also emerged in conjunction with other disciplines, a synthetic dialogue that would later be characterized as a contentious division between “two cultures.” So too…

  • Conference: Darwin, Tennyson, and their Readers

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    DARWIN, TENNYSON and their READERS: A Bicentenary Celebration, 1809-2009 2009 marks the bicentenary of the birth of both Charles Darwin and Alfred Tennyson. Our one-day conference will celebrate this event by exploring the interaction of literature and science in the Victorian period, mining the rich vein of research opened up by Professor Dame Gillian Beer…

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