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‘Tuberculosis as a Romantic Disease: Artistic, Historical & Literary Perspectives’ A Workshop funded by the Leverhulme Trust Thursday, 18 June 2015, 4.00 – 6.30pm Room 2.21, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (Level 2), Newcastle University Speakers: Dr Helen Bynum (Historian), ‘Tuberculous Lives – Conforming to the Stereotype?’ Anna Dumitriu (Artist) ‘The Romantic Disease: An Artistic…

Fully-funded three-year AHRC Research and Enterprise in Arts and Creative Technology (REACT) Collaborative PhD Studentship: Thomas Hardy and Heritage Based at Dorset County Museum and the University of Exeter (Centres for Literature and Archives and for Victorian Studies, College of Humanities), this studentship will be focused on Thomas Hardy and his correspondents. The letters to…

The workshop ‘Effects of the Scientific Imaginary’ will take place at the SPH Centre in Bordeaux-Montaigne University on June 11th & 12th 2015. The workshop aims at discussing the examining the effects of scientific thought-experiments and fantasies from a variety of disciplinary angles. For example: do stories of brain transplantation and swamp-people import conceptual assumptions…

Several positions on the BSLS Executive Committee will be either vacant or up for renewal this April 2015: Chair, Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Book Reviews Officer*, Member at Large and a new role of Member at Large – for a postgraduate or early career researcher without a permanent post*. If you are interested in any of…

The programme for next term’s seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at Oxford University has been announced. The speakers are Lee Macdonald, Matthew Paskins and Rachel Bowlby. Click on the link below to see who is speaking when: http://diseasesofmodernlife.org/category/events/

Registration now open: Biological Discourses The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 The decades around 1900 are a crucial period for the impact of biological thought on the intellectual cultures of the western world. The impulses of Darwinism were taken up by intellectuals, writers and artists from the 1860s onwards, and both Darwinian and…

The English department at the University of Bristol invites submissions for a 1-day conference to be held on the 29th of June, 2015, on the subject of ‘Romanticism and the South-West’. The conference aims to explore the importance of the South-West for Romantic writers, with a particular emphasis on the following topics: 1) ecologically aware…

The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) is holding an interdisciplinary workshop on Reading and Replicating Bodies: Mimicry in Medicine and Culture, 1790-1914 on 26 March 2015. To read more about it, and to register, click here.