Author: bsls

  • Talk on Gray’s Anatomy at Royal Institution

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    ‘The making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy’, a talk by Ruth Richardson Tuesday 4 November 2008, 7.00pm-8.30pm Gray’s Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations…

  • CFP: Fourth Annual Science and the Public Conference

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    University of Brighton, June 13th and 14th 2009. Science and the public: uncertain pasts, presents and futures. The relationship between science and the public has provided fruitful material for analysis from a range of academic disciplines, and an important area of policy and practice, in recent years. Studies and experience have revealed a startling complexity,…

  • CFP: British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, 2009

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    The BSHS Annual Conference will take place at Stamford Hall, University of Leicester from 2 – 5 July 2009. The Programme Committee invites papers or sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine and their colleagues in the wider scholarly community on any theme, topic or period. The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for sessions or…

  • Biocentre: Arts & Technology symposium

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    People Power for the Third Millennium:Technology, Democracy and Human Rights BioCentre is pleased to announce the fourth symposium of the series: Arts & Technology: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Policy Making, Tuesday 14th October 2008 at the National Theatre, Southbank, 2-5pm, followed by drinks reception. When it comes to developments in science and…

  • CFP: Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question

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    Science Museum and Tate Modern, London, 23-24 January 2009 On 7 May 1959, C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture in Cambridge on the subject of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. A failed scientist and a moderately successful novelist, C. P. Snow drew on his experience as a Civil Service Commissioner to consider…

  • Colloquium: Charles Darwin in Europe

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    A one-day colloquium on Charles Darwin in Europe will be held at Darwin’s college Christ’s, Cambridge, on Thursday 26 February 2009 to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth as well as the launch of *The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe*, edited by Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick. The colloquium will continue the discussions…

  • Metrics and journals in the history of science, technology and medicine

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    The following statement is being printed in the editorial pages of many of the major journals in science studies: Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology and Medicine Editors We live in an age of metrics. All around us, things are being standardized, quantified, measured. Scholars concerned with the work of…

  • CFP: ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

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    ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science University of Glamorgan | The ATRiuM Campus Cardiff 8-9 May 2009 Keynote Speakers: Laura Otis (Emory University) | Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University) CALL FOR PAPERS The history of phobias as disease entities is intimately connected…

  • PhD opportunity in literature and science

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    King’s College London / University of Stuttgart PhD-Net “Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period” Application deadline: 15/11/2008 The PhD-Net “Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period” is a bi-national PhD programme run collaboratively by King’s College London and the University of Stuttgart, which aims to forge interdisciplinary connections…

  • Conference: Thomas Beddoes, Doctor of Enlightenment

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    Friday 12 December 2008 at 9:00am Location: Royal Society, Kohn Centre A one-day conference organised in conjunction with the Centre for Life Writing Research, King’s College London. Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of British medicine. Part of a group of radical physicians friendly with Erasmus Darwin…

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