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  • Oxford literature and medicine seminars

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

  • Science, Medicine and Culture seminars at Oxford

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    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…

  • Scientiae conference cfp

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    Scientiae Toronto 2015 27-29 May 2015, Victoria College, University of Toronto Keynotes: Anthony Grafton (Princeton) & Peter Dear (Cornell) The CFP for Scientiae 2015 (Toronto, 27-29 May) is now available online. Paper, panel, and round-table proposals are invited for the fourth annual international conference on the emergent knowledge practices of the early-modern period (1450-1750). The…

  • Biological Discourses conference

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    Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 A two-day conference at the University of Cambridge, 10-11 April 2015 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…

  • Jay Labinger speaking in Oxford

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    Professor Jay Labinger (California Institute of Technology) is visiting the Oxford English Faculty to speak on “Metaphoric vs. Literal Uses of Science: Entropy as Time’s (Double-Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and other Recent Literature”. His talk will be at 2 p.m. in the Faculty Senior Common Room on 20 October.

  • Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century Reading Group

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    The reading group on Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century is a collaborative venture between Newcastle University and the Literary and Philosophical Society. The group is open to scholars, students and researchers as well as members of the public with an interest in nineteenth-century science, pseudoscience and literature. For each session we read a combination…

  • BSLS 2015 conference – call for papers

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    The tenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Liverpool, on 16-18 April 2015. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Keith Barnham (Imperial College London), Dr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge), and Dr Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London). The BSLS invites proposals…

  • The ‘Exotic’ Body in 19th-century British Drama

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    The ‘Exotic’ Body in 19th-century British Drama (Oxford, 25-26 September) A full programme and registration details for this conference are now available. Click here to link to the conference page, and here for the booking site. For further information contact Tiziana Morosetti.

  • The National Archives seeks proposals from university partners for collaborative doctoral studentships to start in October 2015

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    The National Archives seeks proposals from university partners for collaborative doctoral studentships to start in October 2015. The National Archives is a member of the Thames Consortium, supporting (in total across the Consortium) six new collaborative research studentships each year via the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. Students are jointly…

  • CFP: Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic and Technology

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    Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic and Technology 10-12 July 2015 Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London Call for Papers Papers are sought on all aspects of ‘Science, Magic and Technology’ in late medieval literature and culture and particularly within Chaucer studies. Approaches might include: The presentation of scientific ideas in myth and poetry…

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