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  • First report of BSLS 2008 conference in Keele

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    Report by Stella Pratt-Smith The third annual conference of the British Society of Literature and Science was hosted at Keele University and organised by Sharon Ruston and her team with just the right combination of exceptional efficiency and friendliness. Within the gold and gilt Victorian splendour of Keele Hall’s Salvin Room, Helen Small (Pembroke College,…

  • BSLS 2009 dates announced

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    The next conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will be held at the University of Reading from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 March, 2009. Keynote speakers will include Dame Gillian Beer (King Edward VII Professor Emerita at Cambridge University), Patrick Parrinder (Professor of English Literature at Reading University), and Simon Conway Morris…

  • Report 2 of the 2008 BSLS conference in Keele

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    Report by Melanie Keene and Jane Darcy In late March, delegates gathered for the third annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science in the magnificent surroundings of Keele Hall. Following previous successful meetings in Glasgow and Birmingham, over sixty participants, including plenary speakers, PhD students, professors, and poets, joined together to hear…

  • BSLS book prize winner

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    The committee of the BSLS is delighted to announce that Ralph O’Connor’s book The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 (U of Chicago P, 2007) has been awarded the Society’s first book prize. The book is a deeply-researched, ambitious and elegant account of early nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing on…

  • BSLS book prize shortlist announced

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    The committee of the BSLS is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Society’s annual prize for the best book on literature and science published the previous calendar year. The prize is awarded for the first time this year, and the winner will be announced at the conference in Keele at the end of March.…

  • CFP: Special issue of Victorian Studies on Darwin

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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.�? The study of Darwin and the relationship of his life and work to Victorian culture has become an industry.…

  • The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures

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    St Mary’s College, Durham 4-6 April Programme Friday 4 April 15.00-17.00: Registration Section One: The Anglophone World 17.30-18.30 David Amigoni (Keele): Down the Darwinian Line(s): Inherited Characteristics in Biology, Literature and Culture *20.00-21.00 A. S. Byatt and Patricia Waugh (Durham): Darwinian Fictions (Elvet Riverside 140) This event is open to the public – admission free.…

  • ‘Between the Lines’ lecture: Philip Ball on his book on Paracelsus

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    Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford Tuesday 19 February, 7 pm In the next in an occasional series of lectures by authors of successful books in the history of science, Philip Ball will talk about his book, The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. Philip Ball has…

  • BSLS panel at RED conference, July 2008

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    The conference organised by the Reading Experience Database will include a guest panel from the BSLS. Titled ‘Scientists Reading Literature’, the panel will feature papers by Gowan Dawson (Leicester), Mary Noble (Princeton) and Stephen Jacyna (UCL) and will be chaired by Alice Jenkins (Glasgow): Gowan Dawson, ‘The novelist puts this and that together’: Richard Owen’s…

  • History of Science Society conference 2008

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    HSS 2008 Annual Meeting Call for Papers Pittsburgh, PA, USA 6-9 November 2008 (Joint meeting with PSA) The History of Science Society will hold its 2008 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA in the Omni William Penn hotel (site of the 1999 annual meeting). Proposals for sessions, contributed papers, and, for the first time, posters, must…

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