Category: Events
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BSLS conference registration and provisional programme
The next BSLS conference will be taking place in Cardiff by Cardiff University and the University of Westminster from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th April. You can download a registration form and provisional programme here. For more details, including advice on travel and accommodation, please visit the conference website hosted by Cardiff University. BSLS Conference 2013 Registration…
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Royal Society History of Science Friday lunchtime lectures
The following lectures in our Autumn 2012 programme may be of interest to BSLS members: Friday 28 September, 1pm Prof. Sharon Ruston Natural History and the Rights of Woman During the two-year period of the composition and publication of her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of Mary Shelley and early advocate…
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The Brain and the Mind
Lisa Appignanesi and Lara Feigel are organising a new series of six panel discussions on behalf of the Centre for the Humanities and Health and the English department at King’s College London. The talks will take place from October 2012-March 2013. The series is called The Brain and the Mind and brings together neuroscientists with writers, artists, philosophers, psychiatrists,…
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‘Face to Face’ Encounters between the Arts and Sciences
“‘Face to Face’ — Encounters between the Arts and Sciences” is an Interdisciplinary Colloquium to be held at Queen Mary University of London, on Friday, 22nd June 2012. PROGRAMME 09.30-10.00 Coffee and Registration (Lockkeepers’ Cottage, Georg Steiner Room) 10.00-10.15 Welcome and Introduction 10.15-10.55 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Prof. Leonard Olschner (Queen Mary University of London): ‘A Science…
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BSLS 2012: What’s On in Oxford
If you’re making an extended stay in Oxford, some of the following events and places may be of interest. See also the Oxford City Guide and Visit Oxfordshire websites. EXHIBITIONS Museum of the History of Science, Broad St, OX1 3AZ: ‘Time Machines’. Open 12.00-17.00, and 10.00-17.00 on Saturdays. Time Machines MUSEUMS Oxford University Museum of…
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BSLS 2012: Online booking now open
Online booking for the BSLS 2012 conference is now available here: http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=1086&modid=1&compid=1 Please note that if you wish to book for the conference dinner at Merton, you must do so by Friday 30th March. (Because of the Easter break, the college needs notice of numbers far in advance.) Please note also that the price of…
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BSLS 2012 Workshop Proposal: Experiments in Theatre
BSLS 2012 Workshop Proposal “Experiments in Theatre: New Directions in Science and Performance” In 2002, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews published a special issue on Theatre and Science that became the springboard for key debates that have helped to shape and define the field. Since then, several new books and dozens of articles have significantly expanded the…
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BSLS 2012 Conference: 12-14 April 2012, Oxford: call for papers
The British Society for Literature and Science invites proposals for papers and panels to be delivered at its seventh annual conference, to be held at the English Faculty, University of Oxford, 12-14 April 2012. The deadline for receipt of proposals is Monday 5 December 2011; we anticipate that announcements about acceptances/rejections will be issued 9…
