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  • 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…

  • BSLS 2009 programme now available

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    A provisional programme for our March 2009 conference at the University of Reading is now available along with information for delegates to register and book accommodation.

  • Darwin in the Literary World (public lecture)

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    Rebecca Stott Darwin in the Literary World – one of six of the annual Cambridge Darwin Lecture Series Lady Mitchell Hall, West Road, at 5.30-6.30 on Friday 6th Feb Within months of Darwin’s publication of The Origin of Species, novelists, poets and artists began to turn Darwin’s ideas into art. That they have continued to…

  • Sci-Talk: website for connecting writers with scientists

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    BSLS members and readers of this website may be interested in SciTalk, a website facility run by Dr Ann Lingard and designed to offer “a way for scientists to communicate their expertise and their enthusiasm to writers, and a way for writers to find out about science and how scientists ‘work’ — through personal contact…

  • BSLS Special offer, book discount

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    The latest volume of Essays and Studies is Literature and Science edited by Sharon Ruston. Publishers Boydell & Brewer generously offer BSLS members and readers a 25% discount. Just fill in this form (pdf) and send it to Boydell & Brewer to receive your discount (or alternatively order online). Read Laura Daniels review on the…

  • Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question

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    On 7 May 1959, C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture in Cambridge. His influential and controversial address on the subject of ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’ critiqued an increasing fissure between ‘literary intellectuals’ and ‘natural scientists’. The London Consortium is bringing together the Science Museum, Tate Modern and Birkbeck, University of London,…

  • Darwin Festival 2009

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    Booking for the Darwin Festival in Cambridge, 5-10 July 2009, is now open. Among events that may be of interest to BSLS members: Wednesday July 8th A.S. Byatt in conversation with Professor Gillian Beer and Ian McEwan in conversation with Professor David Amigoni Wednesday July 8th and Thursday July 9th Sessions on Darwin on stage,…

  • BSLS Book Prize for 2008

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is pleased to invite nominations for the annual BSLS Book Prize. The prize of £150 will be awarded to the best book published in 2008 in the field of literature and science. We therefore invite nominations, including self-nominations, for books to be considered. Monographs, edited volumes, editions, and…

  • Royal Institution Lecture – ‘The Age of Wonder’

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    Monday 19 January 7.00pm–8.30pm ‘The age of wonder’ a lecture by Prof Richard Holmes In this lecture Richard Holmes tells the story of three remarkable scientific friendships during the Romantic Age in Britain. The astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, the chemists Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday and the medical scientists, John Abernethy and William Lawrence…

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