Author: John Holmes

  • CoSciLit workshop cfp

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    2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN THE FRAMEWORK OF “HERMOUPOLIS SEMINARS”, SYROS, 5-8 JULY 2016 “Beyond Nature in Science and Literature” The International Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, the Hellenic Open University and the Institute of Historical Research/ National Hellenic Research Foundation organize a two-days’ workshop to study “Beyond Nature in Science and Literature”. The CoSciLit…

  • Collaborative Doctoral Project on Oxford University Museum of Natural History

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    Where Art and Science Meet: Art and Design at Oxford University Museum of Natural History (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award) Level of Study: Doctoral research Subject area: History of Art Nationality: EU, UK Type of Award: Research Council Deadline for applying: 24/03/2017 Award Description The Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University…

  • Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars at the University of Oxford

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    Here are the details of this term’s seminars in the Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series at Oxford: Wednesday 1 February 2017 Professor Barbara Taylor, Queen Mary University of London Pathologies of Solitude 5.30 – 7.00, Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College Drinks will be served after the seminar. All welcome, no…

  • Scale of Nature conference

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    Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being One-Day Conference Saturday 18 March 2017 Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and Centre for Visual Arts and Culture https://www.dur.ac.uk/cncs/conferences/scaleofnature/ CFP Deadline: Friday 25 November 2016 Durham University, UK Keynote Address: Professor Peter Bowler (Queen’s University, Belfast) CALL FOR PAPERS Amongst the paradigms current in nineteenth-century…

  • Visions of Nature events in Oxford

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    This year the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has been hosting a series of exhibitions, events and residencies under the theme Visions of Nature. In December, BSLS members John Holmes and Janine Rogers will be taking part in three public events at the museum as part of this celebration of art and poetry inspired by…

  • Commission on Science and Literature news

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    The Commission on Science and Literature organized two events in the past summer. The workshop ‘Nature, Humans and God(s)’ was held on the island of Syros in Greece on 8-9 July. The 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature was held at Echophysics in Poellau, Austria, on 7-9 September. The proceedings of both meetings are to be published. In…

  • Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars at the University of Oxford

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    This term there will be two seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at Oxford: Wednesday 19 October Dr Andrew Mangham, University of Reading ‘Have ye ever seen a child clemmed to death?’: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Physiology of Starvation 5.30 – 7.00, Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College Wednesday 9 November…

  • Cafe Culturel event in Birmingham on Cognitive Decline

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    Cafe Culturel (run by students from Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences and Biomedical Sciences, at University of Birmingham) starts a new year of events. The first event in the new calendar, on Tue 18th October 2016, 6:30 pm, at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, is workshop/cafe event with the title Cognitive Decline: Presentations and Representations. Starting…

  • Journal of Science and Popular Culture

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    The first volume of the Journal of Science and Popular Culture (comprising two issues) is currently being assembled for publication and will be available in October 2017 and early 2018. If you would like to contribute to either issue please send proposals or full articles to the Editor, Dr Steven Gil, at steven.gil@qut.edu.au. The Journal…

  • Science in Public conference

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    Registration open: Science in Public 2016 University of Kent, Canterbury, 13-15 July 2016 ​ Registration for the Science in Public 2016 conference is now open via this link. The early bird rate is available until 20 May. A draft timetable for the conference runs from lunchtime on Wednesday 13 July to about 3pm on Friday…

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