Category: Events

  • BSLS 2009 programme now available

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    A provisional programme for our March 2009 conference at the University of Reading is now available along with information for delegates to register and book accommodation.

  • Darwin in the Literary World (public lecture)

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    Rebecca Stott Darwin in the Literary World – one of six of the annual Cambridge Darwin Lecture Series Lady Mitchell Hall, West Road, at 5.30-6.30 on Friday 6th Feb Within months of Darwin’s publication of The Origin of Species, novelists, poets and artists began to turn Darwin’s ideas into art. That they have continued to…

  • Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question

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    On 7 May 1959, C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture in Cambridge. His influential and controversial address on the subject of ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’ critiqued an increasing fissure between ‘literary intellectuals’ and ‘natural scientists’. The London Consortium is bringing together the Science Museum, Tate Modern and Birkbeck, University of London,…

  • Darwin Festival 2009

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    Booking for the Darwin Festival in Cambridge, 5-10 July 2009, is now open. Among events that may be of interest to BSLS members: Wednesday July 8th A.S. Byatt in conversation with Professor Gillian Beer and Ian McEwan in conversation with Professor David Amigoni Wednesday July 8th and Thursday July 9th Sessions on Darwin on stage,…

  • Royal Institution Lecture – ‘The Age of Wonder’

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    Monday 19 January 7.00pm–8.30pm ‘The age of wonder’ a lecture by Prof Richard Holmes In this lecture Richard Holmes tells the story of three remarkable scientific friendships during the Romantic Age in Britain. The astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, the chemists Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday and the medical scientists, John Abernethy and William Lawrence…

  • Talk on Gray’s Anatomy at Royal Institution

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    ‘The making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy’, a talk by Ruth Richardson Tuesday 4 November 2008, 7.00pm-8.30pm Gray’s Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations…

  • CFP: Fourth Annual Science and the Public Conference

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    University of Brighton, June 13th and 14th 2009. Science and the public: uncertain pasts, presents and futures. The relationship between science and the public has provided fruitful material for analysis from a range of academic disciplines, and an important area of policy and practice, in recent years. Studies and experience have revealed a startling complexity,…

  • Colloquium: Charles Darwin in Europe

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    A one-day colloquium on Charles Darwin in Europe will be held at Darwin’s college Christ’s, Cambridge, on Thursday 26 February 2009 to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth as well as the launch of *The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe*, edited by Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick. The colloquium will continue the discussions…

  • CFP: ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

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    ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science University of Glamorgan | The ATRiuM Campus Cardiff 8-9 May 2009 Keynote Speakers: Laura Otis (Emory University) | Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University) CALL FOR PAPERS The history of phobias as disease entities is intimately connected…

  • CFP: British Society for Literature and Science conference 2009

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    The 4th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Reading on 27th-29th March, 2009. Keynote speakers will include Dame Gillian Beer, formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge; Patrick Parrinder, Professor of English at the University of Reading; and Simon Conway Morris,…

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