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The British Library are offering 3-month internships to PhD students, and one of the offered positions is in the field of ‘Science in Society’. http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/highered/phd-placement-scheme/science-in-society.pdf    

“The Nineteenth Century in the future. Thinking, representing and imagining times to come during the 19th Century”. Tuesday 19 January 2016 – Friday 22 January 2016 See the following website for further details: https://www.singer-polignac.org/fr/missions/sciences/colloques/1279-le-xixe-siecle-face-au-futur-penser-representer-rever-l-avenir-au-xixe-siecle  

In Spring Term 2016 there will be two seminars in the Oxford University series on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at St Anne’s College. Drinks will be served after each seminar and all are welcome.   Wednesday 3 February 2016 (Week 3) Dr Sam Alberti, Director of Museums and Archives, Royal College of Surgeons of England…

Between fact and fiction: climate change fiction Fiction Meets Science Workshop Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany 22 – 23 April 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS   Since global warming seems, almost by definition, hard to imagine (after all, it’s never happened before) it gets short shrift. (…) And here science can take us only so far. The…

The Commission on Science and Literature are holding a workshop on Jules Verne, his science and his science fiction at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, on 17-18 December 2015. To see the full programme, click below: Programme Verne final For more details, please contact the Chair of the Commission George Vlahakis (gvlahakis@yahoo.com).