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  • Biological Discourses conference

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    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…

  • Romanticism and the South-West ** Extended Deadline**

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    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…

  • Science and culture in the early C20th conference

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    Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century Institute of Historical Research, London 22-24 April 2015 Registration is now invited. See http://www.qmul.ac.uk/being-modern/ for programme and link to the registration page. Engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of “Being modern”, across culture in Britain and the western world in the years…

  • Workshop on mimicry in medicine and culture

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    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.

  • BSLS 2015 conference

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    Booking for the BSLS 2015 conference is now open here. Online registration will close on 20th March, and the venue requires confirmation of delegate numbers by this date. Late bookings won’t be accepted unfortunately. Delegates need to be members of the BSLS, and the booking form includes the option to join/renew. There is also the…

  • SLSAeu conference

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    The new website for the SLSAeu conference for 2015 has just been launched. The conference will be on the theme of Scale. It is taking place in Malta in June. For more details, click here to visit the website.

  • (Re)Imagining the Insect: Natures & Cultures of Invertebrates, 1700-1900. Booking now open!

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    Booking is now open for the one day interdisciplinary conference: (Re)Imagining the Insect: Natures & Cultures of Invertebrates, 1700-1900, to be held at The University of Warwick on 7th March 2015. The conference programme and abstracts can be found on our website – https://reimaginingtheinsect.wordpress.com/programme-and-abstracts/

  • New book series on North American Literature and the Environment, 1600-1900

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    Ashgate have just announced a new book series on North American Literature and the Environment, 1600-1900. To read more about it, including how to submit a proposal, click below: New Ashgate Series flyer

  • **Extended deadline** CFP: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2015 University of Exeter, 20-21 July 2015

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    Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Stuart Murray, University of Leeds Dr Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick   Building on the success of last year’s Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, this conference aims to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines in a manner that reflects the broad scope of exciting research being carried out in the…

  • PhD funding on Darwinian medicine

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    Applications are invited for a 3-year fully funded PhD project on ‘Evolution and the Hygienic City: Darwinian medicine in fin-de-siècle Belfast’ to begin October 2015 and based at Queen’s University Belfast. For full details, click here: Darwinian Medicine PhD

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