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“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).

The recent BSLS Winter Symposium, Science in the Archives, held at Reading and hosted by Verity Burke and Claire Stainthorp, was extensively tweeted before and during the event. Verity and Claire have now captured those tweets on Storify, for those who can and those who cannot access Twitter. You can follow the narrative of the…

The Astrobiology Chair is a distinguished senior research position in residence at the Library of Congress for a period of up to twelve months. Using research facilities and services at the Library of Congress, the scholar engages in research at the intersection of the science of astrobiology and its humanistic and societal implications. The appointment…

As part of the ongoing series, ‘Teaching Romanticism’, I am seeking contributions on the topic of Literature and Science. This blog post will consider the opportunities for and challenges of teaching Literature and Science within the Romantic period (broadly defined). Contributors might explore approaches to a particular text, the challenges and advantages posed by interdisciplinary approaches, the use…