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  • CFP: British Society for Literature and Science conference 2009

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    The 4th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Reading on 27th-29th March, 2009. Keynote speakers will include Dame Gillian Beer, formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge; Patrick Parrinder, Professor of English at the University of Reading; and Simon Conway Morris,…

  • Conference CFP – Global Risk

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    CALL FOR PAPERS: Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk An international, Interdisciplinary Conference Cardiff University, UK Thursday 2*Friday 3 July 2009 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Imre Szemán (McMaster University, Canada) Dr Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK) What are the cultural implications of living under conditions of global, manufactured risk? In the twentieth…

  • LAUNCH OF THE JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE

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    UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN, CARDIFF, SEPTEMBER 12 THE JLS The Journal of Literature and Science is a new, peer-reviewed, online journal hosted by Glamorgan’s Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, founded in 2006. The Centre directors are Professors Andrew Smith & Jeff Wallace, and Dr Martin Willis, who is also the Journal of Literature and…

  • CFP: Graduate journal issue on Technology and Humanity

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    Technology and Humanity The following is a call for articles for a forthcoming themed issue of eSharp, an established peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality research by postgraduate students. eSharp is pleased to support new and early-career authors, and has actively encouraged emerging academic talent since 2002. The twelfth issue of eSharp will consider the cultural and…

  • Call for Papers – Génétique et Culture Française

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    International Conference: Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, London, Thurs 2 – Fri 3 July 2009. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jacques Testart, Honorary Research Director of I.N.S.E.R.M;Fay Brauer, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. Difference, whether between individuals, whole populations or discrete organic species, has always been a source of fascination for mankind. The…

  • Romantic Science – One Day Seminar

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    ROMANTIC SCIENCE CARDIFF, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008 The University of Glamorgan’s Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science will host the next meeting of the Wales and the West Romanticism Seminar on the subject of Romantic Science. The seminar will be held at our Cardiff campus, the Atrium, on September 12, 2008. We are delighted to…

  • Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies cfp

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    2009 is both the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species. Victorian Studies will mark the occasion with a special issue on “Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies.” Since the publication of VS’s first Darwin issue in 1959, the study of Darwin and the relationship of his…

  • Society for Literature, Science and the Arts conference 2008

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    The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 13-16, 2008. The SLSA welcomes papers and panels on all topics of interest to SLSA members. This year, they also invite papers that touch on the theme of “Reiteration.” The deadline for…

  • Darwin, Tennyson and their readers conference

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    DARWIN, TENNYSON and their READERS: A Bicentenary Celebration, 1809 – 2009 A One-Day Conference to be held in Cambridge, Saturday 17th October 2009, 10am – 6pm. Plenary Speakers: Gillian Beer, George Levine Offers of Short Papers (20 minutes long) are invited. Please contact: Valerie Purton, Anglia Ruskin University (Valerie.Purton@anglia.ac.uk) by 1st October, 2008. 2009 will…

  • Science and the Public conference, 21-22 June 2008

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    University of Manchester, UK Today the sciences are linked to society through many different channels of communication. The public interfaces with science during controversies that involve scientists as well as journalists, politicians and the citizenry as a whole. This interdisciplinary conference brings together diverse strands of academia in order to consider science, technology and medicine…

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