Category: Events

  • Conference: Eye of the Storm

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    Eye of the Storm: An interdisciplinary art and science conference on scientific controversy Location: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, UK From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells, The Arts Catalyst is bringing together an international line up of artists and scientists…

  • Conference: Romantic Disorder

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    Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850 Modern disciplines like geology, history, and anthropology often trace their origins to Romantic-era developments. “Literature,” as a distinct category of expressive writing also emerged in conjunction with other disciplines, a synthetic dialogue that would later be characterized as a contentious division between “two cultures.” So too…

  • Conference: Darwin, Tennyson, and their Readers

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    DARWIN, TENNYSON and their READERS: A Bicentenary Celebration, 1809-2009 2009 marks the bicentenary of the birth of both Charles Darwin and Alfred Tennyson. Our one-day conference will celebrate this event by exploring the interaction of literature and science in the Victorian period, mining the rich vein of research opened up by Professor Dame Gillian Beer…

  • Oxford Literature and Science Seminar

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    The Oxford Literature and Science seminar is meeting twice termly; all with a research interest in the area are welcome, whether members of the university or not. The second event in Trinity Term 2009 will be held in the Breakfast Room, Merton College, Oxford. Friday 12 June 2009 (7th week), 2pm. Jean-François Peyret (founder and…

  • Cfp: Looking back on the End of Time

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    Looking back on the End of Time — Modernism and Beyond University of East Anglia, UK Keynote Speakers: Prof. Randall Stevenson (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Bryony Randall (University of Glasgow) At the turn of the twentieth century developments in the sciences and technology seemed to necessitate a radical review of the nature, perhaps even…

  • Cfp: Dickens and Science

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    DICKENS DAY – Dickens and Science Saturday 10 October 2009, London G. H. Lewes famously criticised Dickens’s failure to engage with contemporary scientific thought and proffer psychologically convincing characters, describing them as ‘frogs whose brains have been taken out for physiological purposes’. Recent work, however, has significantly challenged the truism that Dickens was indifferent or…

  • Cfp: Thomas de Quincey, Manchester and Medicine 1785-1859

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    A one-day conference on this subject will be held at the University of Salford on Friday 4th December 2009. It has been 150 years since Thomas de Quincey died on the 8th December 1859. Conference papers are invited on any topic concerning his work, Manchester, and medicine, during the period of his lifetime (1785-1859). Plenary…

  • Conference announcement: Sex, Ethics and Psychology

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    Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939). A two-day conference examining the work of Albert Moll in the context of late Imperial and Weimar Germany medicine, culture and society and also looking at the international impact of his work. Sponsored by the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine…

  • Cfp: Conference on Numeracy

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    Numeracy: Historical, philosophical and educational perspectives St Anne’s College, Oxford Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 December 2009 (lunchtime to lunchtime). In recent years studies of the history of mathematics have turned increasing attention to the mathematical experiences of ordinary people and to the teaching, learning and using of mathematics which takes place outside elite contexts…

  • Euroscience Open Forum, Turin, 2010

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    The European Science Open Forum will be held in Turin, Italy, 2-7 June 2010. It’s a large, very international meeting of scientists, journalists, policy makers and members of the public. The call for proposals emphasises interdisciplinary research and includes strands on science and language and science and culture. The deadline for proposals is June 15,…

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