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Reviews needed for Literature and Science Special Issue of the Oxonian Review:  The Oxonian Review is looking for short reviews (1000-2,000 words) of recently published work or essays (also 1000-2,000 words) on new developments in the field for our special issue on Literature and Science, which will be published on 8 December 2014. If you are interested in…

A ‘museum late’ at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: this event will showcase the dynamic world of citizen science. Through short talks, quizzes and interactive sessions, visitors can discover how members of the public participate in science today, how they have done so in the past, and how citizen science is changing…

University College London is launching a new series of Science and Literature talks this term with the following talk: Tuesday, 4th November, 5.30-7.30 pm Reading and Reception Seminar – Science and Literature Series G24, Foster Court, University College London, Malet Place, WC1 Prof Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford) ‘Animal instinct and whispering machines: Science in the Victorian periodical’

The Department of English at King’s College London is running a series of research seminars on literature and science this term. For details, click on the link below: Dept research seminar 201415

There are still some places left for non-presenting delegates. To register please visit http://teachingliteratureandscience.wordpress.com/

For those not going to the NAVSA conference in London, Ontario, you can hear Professor Gillian Beer’s lecture ‘ “Are you animal – or vegetable – or mineral” Alice and Others’ in London, UK, on 16 October, at QMUL: click here for more information.

There will be three sessions of the Oxford Literature and Science seminar this coming term. All are welcome. Monday 20 October, 2pm (St Cross Building SCR): Jay Labinger (California Institute of Technology), “Metaphoric vs. Literal Uses of Science: Entropy as Time’s (Double-Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and other Recent Literature.” Friday 14 November, 2pm (St Cross…

Oxford University’s Literature and Medicine Seminar is returning this Autumn. To see the programme of events, click here.

A new seminar series is starting at Oxford on science, medicine and culture in the nineteenth century. Here is the programme for this term. Wednesday 22nd October 2014   David Trotter, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge Signalling Madly: Telegraphy and Obsessive Behaviour in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction 5.30 – 7.00, Seminar Room…