Author: bsls

  • Conference announcement: Sex, Ethics and Psychology

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    Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939). A two-day conference examining the work of Albert Moll in the context of late Imperial and Weimar Germany medicine, culture and society and also looking at the international impact of his work. Sponsored by the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine…

  • Cfp: Conference on Numeracy

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    Numeracy: Historical, philosophical and educational perspectives St Anne’s College, Oxford Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 December 2009 (lunchtime to lunchtime). In recent years studies of the history of mathematics have turned increasing attention to the mathematical experiences of ordinary people and to the teaching, learning and using of mathematics which takes place outside elite contexts…

  • BSLS Book Prize for 2008: The Shortlist

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2008 book prize. The four shortlisted books are: Armstrong,Isobel. Victorian Glassworlds (Oxford University Press, 2008) Jackson, Noel. Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, no.73) (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Levine, George Lewis. Realism, ethics and secularism :…

  • Reviews for the Journal of Literature and Science

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    The Journal of Literature and Science, a peer-reviewed, electronically available journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature and science, is seeking new reviews for its next issues. The JLS reviews journal articles in the broad field of literature and science or the cultural history of science published within the year from one volume of the…

  • Euroscience Open Forum, Turin, 2010

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    The European Science Open Forum will be held in Turin, Italy, 2-7 June 2010. It’s a large, very international meeting of scientists, journalists, policy makers and members of the public. The call for proposals emphasises interdisciplinary research and includes strands on science and language and science and culture. The deadline for proposals is June 15,…

  • Royal Institution Lecture – April 7, 2009

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    The ‘science’ in Science Fiction Tuesday 7 April 7.00pm-8.30pm Speaker: Prof Mark Brake and Rev Neil Hook Since its emergence in the 17th century science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In turn, invention and discovery have forced writers to confront the nature and limits…

  • Arts-Science Encounters: A series of events at Sheffield University

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    The Arts meet Science in a series of provocative talks, where anything could happen. The Arts-Science Encounters are a series of talks bringing together researchers from across the University´s five faculties and recognised external speakers. The topics are broad ranging, including speakers from more than twenty disciplines, ranging from Chemistry, Fashion Design, Literature and Law,…

  • ‘ “Romantic Biographies” c.1770-1835’ May 2009

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    “Romantic Biographies”: Writing Lives and Afterlives, c.1770-1835 The Early Careers and Postgraduate Conference for The British Association for Romantic Studies 8 May 2009 at Research Institute for the Humanities, Keele University “As little more than an infant, he was walking through a graveyard with his sister, Mary, ten years his senior, and reading the epitaphs…

  • Elections to the BSLS Executive Committee

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    At the next BSLS conference, all five of the posts on the Executive Committee will be due for re-election, as the present incumbents have now served a three-year term of office. Any member of the society wishing to stand for election to the posts should let me know by 16 March 2009, and should also…

  • CFP: Cultivating Empire: Exploration, Science and Literature

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    Cultivating Empire: Exploration, Science and Literature An Interdisciplinary Conference featuring the work and influence of Sir Joseph Banks Lincoln, UK, 17-18 April 2009 Featured speakers: Richard Holmes (biographer of Shelley and Coleridge and author of The Age of Wonder); G.S. Rousseau (historian of medicine: co-author of Gout: the Patrician Malady); Stephen Daniels (geographer: biographer of…

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