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  • Social History of Medicine 2008 conference

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    HISTORY AND THE HEALTHY POPULATION: SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT, HEALTH AND MEDICINE Annual conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine www.sshm.org/ The Society for the Social History of Medicine 2008 Annual Conference will be jointly organised by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow, a research collaboration between Glasgow Caledonian…

  • New Kings interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies

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    King’s College London and the British Museum are delighted to announce the launch in September 2008 of their new MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies. This is an interdisciplinary degree drawing upon the skills of scholars from eight departments in King’s School of Humanities, alongside those of senior staff at the Museum. Further information is available on…

  • BSLS 2008 draft programme now online

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    The draft programme for the conference has just been published. The conference runs Thursday to Saturday morning with three plenaries, dinner on Thursday evening and a banquet on Friday. Delegates can register online now.

  • Publishing Science: IES, London

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    The Institute of English Studies and the Book History Research Group of the Open University have a series of seminars titled ‘Publishing Science’ that may be of interest. Speakers are Jonathan Topham (28 Jan 2008), Jim Mussell (11 Feb), Gowan Dawson (25 Feb), and Angelique Richardson (10 March). The venue is Senate House: see the…

  • Medicine and Literature conference: Before Depression

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    BEFORE DEPRESSION: THE REPRESENTATION AND CULTURE OF DEPRESSION IN BRITAIN AND EUROPE, 1660-1800 A three-day conference at The University of Northumbria at Newcastle and the University of Sunderland June 19th to 21st, 2008 Plenary Speakers: MADELEINE DESCARGUES-GRANT (Université de Valenciennes) ELAINE HOBBY (University of Loughborough) PETER SABOR (McGill University) Call for papers This conference seeks…

  • Popular Science Books event, Imperial College

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    Registration is now open for a one-day event discussing Popular Science Books to be held at Imperial College’s South Kensington Campus, 22nd February 2008. Literary critics, historians, writers, illustrators, publishers, prize-givers, reviewers, readers, booksellers, teachers (and others) are all invited to take part in what we hope will be a day of lively discussions. Places…

  • News: First Annual BSLS Book Prize

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is delighted to announce the launch of the first annual BSLS Book Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best book published in 2007 in the field of literature and science. We therefore invite nominations, including self-nominations, for books to be considered. Monographs, edited volumes, editions, and…

  • Review section: new feature for the site

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    We’re delighted to announce our new reviews section here on the BSLS site. To open with we have reviews of works by George Levine, Robert Crawford and Pamela Gossin. In the future we plan to add reviews of a range of texts and events concerned with science and literature provided by members of the society.…

  • Call for papers: scientists as readers of literature

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    Abstracts are invited for a proposed panel on Scientists as Readers of Literature for the ‘Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence’ conference to be held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 21-23 July 2008. Papers may discuss the literary reading of scientists, natural philosophers or natural historians of any period. Please send…

  • CFP: 3rd Annual ‘Science & the Public’ Conference

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    Third Annual ‘Science & the Public’ Conference, University of Manchester, 21st and 22nd, June 2008 The past twenty years of scholarly study has demonstrated that science communication is a much more complex process than merely publishing in scientific journals and attending scientific meetings. Today the sciences are linked to society through many different channels of…

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