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  • Science at the Seaside project

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    ‘Science at the Seaside’ is a collaborative project with Professor John Plunkett (Exeter University), Dr Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (Bath Spa University) and Ilfracombe Museum. It is funded by North Devon Fisheries Local Action Group [FLAG] and will run from October 2013–October 2014. ‘Science at the Seaside’ seeks to engage local communities with a neglected aspect of…

  • Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

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    Institute of Modern Languages Research, London, UK 27-28 June 2014 Fee: £10 / £5 (concs.) Speakers to include: Professor Barbara Gates (University of Delaware) Professor Ann Shteir (York University, Ontario, Canada) Scholars have long been familiar with the scientific endeavours of late 19th-century women travellers like Isabella Bird and Mary Kingsley, but these figures have…

  • Essay competition on science communication

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    At the recent PCST conference in Bahia, the issue of the deficit model was raised, in the session on science communication and its audiences. To stimulate the debate and to contribute to the community, the journal Public Understanding of Science would like to announce an essay competition. The essay title is as follows: “In Science Communication,…

  • Special issue on Victorian literature and science

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    Critical Survey Deadline: October 1, 2014 The journal Critical Survey seeks submissions of completed 4000-5000 word articles exploring literary engagements with Victorian sciences. From Darwin, to physiology, to pre-Freudian psychology, to engineering and technology, and beyond, Victorian Britain experienced rapid change – but often seemed ambivalent about whether, as Robert Browning’s Andrea del Sarto puts…

  • Time and Temporality Network

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    The second meeting of the Time and Temporality Network will take place at the University of Warwick on Friday 13th June 2014. It will be a one-day workshop focusing on temporality in relation to medicine and what might be called disorderd or atypical experiences of the body and mind. ​ Speakers and respondents include: John Fletcher (English, University of Warwick) Ulrika…

  • Carolyn Burdett speaking on psychology and aesthetics at the fin de siecle

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    Dr Carolyn Burdett will be giving a paper entitled ”Shareability and contagion: psychology and aesthetics at the fin de siecle” at the UCL seminar on Science and Literature at 5.30pm on Tuesday 3rd of June. As part of our series of seminars on Science and Literature, this event is taking place in UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology.Directions to this building can be…

  • “Evolution and C19th Theatre”: Literature and Science seminar, Oxford, Friday 23 May

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    The final Oxford Literature and Science seminar of the academic year will be at 2pm, Friday 23 May, in Seminar Room A, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Oxford. Our speaker is one of the convenors of the seminar series, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, and her paper “Evolution and Nineteenth-Century Theatre” derives from her recent major research project.

  • ELINAS Inaugural Conference on Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization

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    ELINAS Inaugural Conference on Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization in Erlangen, Germany, May 29th – June 1st Can physics be poeticized? Is there a specific rhetoric to its language? Physics and literature appear to offer two diametrically opposed ways of viewing and representing the world. Yet in combination they have great potential…

  • BSLS Symposium on Teaching Literature and Science

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    The BSLS has voted to hold an annual one-day symposium in addition to its annual conference. Unlike the conference, the symposium will be on a specific theme each year. The BSLS will make a budget of £500 available to members each year in the first instance to fund the symposium. The theme of each symposium…

  • Alice Jenkins speaking on Euclid at UCL

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    Alice Jenkins, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Glasgow, will be giving a paper entitled “‘Eternal and unchangeable’?: Victorian anti-reception of Euclid” in the UCL Reading and Reception Seminar on May 6 at 5.30 p.m. at G24, Foster Court, Malet Place, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT. Her paper considers Victorian accounts of how to…

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