Category: Events
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Romantic Science – One Day Seminar
ROMANTIC SCIENCE CARDIFF, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008 The University of Glamorgan’s Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science will host the next meeting of the Wales and the West Romanticism Seminar on the subject of Romantic Science. The seminar will be held at our Cardiff campus, the Atrium, on September 12, 2008. We are delighted to…
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Science and the Public conference, 21-22 June 2008
University of Manchester, UK Today the sciences are linked to society through many different channels of communication. The public interfaces with science during controversies that involve scientists as well as journalists, politicians and the citizenry as a whole. This interdisciplinary conference brings together diverse strands of academia in order to consider science, technology and medicine…
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First report of BSLS 2008 conference in Keele
Report by Stella Pratt-Smith The third annual conference of the British Society of Literature and Science was hosted at Keele University and organised by Sharon Ruston and her team with just the right combination of exceptional efficiency and friendliness. Within the gold and gilt Victorian splendour of Keele Hall’s Salvin Room, Helen Small (Pembroke College,…
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BSLS 2009 dates announced
The next conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will be held at the University of Reading from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 March, 2009. Keynote speakers will include Dame Gillian Beer (King Edward VII Professor Emerita at Cambridge University), Patrick Parrinder (Professor of English Literature at Reading University), and Simon Conway Morris…
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Report 2 of the 2008 BSLS conference in Keele
Report by Melanie Keene and Jane Darcy In late March, delegates gathered for the third annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science in the magnificent surroundings of Keele Hall. Following previous successful meetings in Glasgow and Birmingham, over sixty participants, including plenary speakers, PhD students, professors, and poets, joined together to hear…
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BSLS book prize winner
The committee of the BSLS is delighted to announce that Ralph O’Connor’s book The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 (U of Chicago P, 2007) has been awarded the Society’s first book prize. The book is a deeply-researched, ambitious and elegant account of early nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing on…
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BSLS book prize shortlist announced
The committee of the BSLS is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Society’s annual prize for the best book on literature and science published the previous calendar year. The prize is awarded for the first time this year, and the winner will be announced at the conference in Keele at the end of March.…
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CFP: Special issue of Victorian Studies on Darwin
2009 is both the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species. Victorian Studies will mark the occasion with a special issue on “Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies.�? The study of Darwin and the relationship of his life and work to Victorian culture has become an industry.…
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BSLS 2008 draft programme now online
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.
