Category: News
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Commission on Science and Literature conference cfp
The new Commission on Science and Literature has announced that it will be holding its first international conference in Athens, Greece, in July 2014. To read the call for papers, click here: Science and Literature Commission cfp 1
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Women in Science Research Network Conference
The Women in Science Research Network is holding an international conference on Revealing Lives: Women in Science 1830-2000 at the Royal Society in London in May 2014. To read the call for papers, click here: WISRNet_Conference_Call_2014
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CFP for INCS 2014
INCS annual conference, 27-30 March 2014, Houston, Texas The annual conference of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS) is scheduled for March 27-30, 2014, in Houston, Texas. We invite wide responses to the conference theme, “Nineteenth-Century Energies.” November 15, 2013, is the deadline for proposals, which should be submitted via the conference site. Additional information about…
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Science and Literature Commission
We are glad to announce that, during the last International Conference of History of Science, Technology and Medicine held in Manchester in July 2013, the Science and Literature Commission was established. The Commission has been approved by the General Assembly of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union for the…
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Body and Mind: Mesmerism in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Free symposium Thursday 17th October 2013, 6-9 pm Body and Mind: Mesmerism in Nineteenth Century Culture and Literature Barts Pathology Museum This symposium will seek to explore the relationship between the sciences and Victorian mesmerism, psychical research and parapsychology. This event has been kindly sponsored by the British Society for Literature and Science. Speakers: Prof. William Hughes (Bath…
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CFP: Cognitive Futures in the Humanities, Durham University, 2014
2nd International Conference, 24-26 April, 2014 CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS David Herman, Alan Richardson, Patricia Waugh, Mark Rowlands, Alan Palmer, Vyvyan Evans, plus a roundtable on interdisciplinarity with Ellen Spolsky and Michael Wheeler We invite proposals for 20 minute papers and preformed panels for the second international conference associated with the research network, Cognitive Futures in…
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Making Waves: Oliver Lodge and the Cultures of Science, 1875-1940—reminder
The Call for Papers for the Workshop on ‘Civic Science: Oliver Lodge, Physics, and the Modern University’ at the University of Birmingham on Saturday 9 November 2013 is due next week. To see read the full cfp as posted on the BSLS website, click here.
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BSLS conference 2014 CFP
The ninth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on 10-12 April 2014. Keynote speakers will include Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto) and Professor Mary Orr (University of Southampton). The conference will finish with an opportunity to visit Down House, the home…
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Is All Great Science Great Science Fiction?
A debate at the Durham Book Festival, 9 October 2013, 8.30pm Professor Tom McLeish (molecular physicist) Professor Patricia Waugh (English studies) Ken MacLeod (science fiction writer) Dr Andrew Crumey (novelist and former physicist) Attendance is free but ticketed. For full details click here. Produced in association with the Institute of Advanced Study and the Hearing the…
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Reminder: Deadline for Small Grants Applications Approaching
Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £300 to advance and/or promote the study of literature and science. Examples of things for which the awards might be used are expenses for visiting speakers, seminar series and debates, and other funding to stage events on literature and science. The scheme is not intended…
