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Call for Papers Victorian Body Parts St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum, Clerkenwell, Saturday 14th September 2013 Keynote Speakers: Dr Katharina Boehm (Universität Regensburg), Dr Kate Hill (Lincoln) and Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith (QMUL)  “Mr Wegg, if you was brought here loose in a bag to be articulated, I’d name your smallest bones blindfold equally with your largest, as fast as I could pick ’em out,…

Today marks the launch of a major new set of online, free to access resources developed by the Darwin Correspondence Project (Univ. of Cambridge) on the theme of ‘Darwin & Gender’. The themed resources cover a broad range of issues of interest to students and researchers of women’s and gender history and give access to…

In a new review essay just posted on Valeria Tinkler-Villani and C.C. Barfoot (eds.), Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature’s Refraction of Science (Rodopi, 2011), Professor Nick Battey, Head of Environmental Biology at the University of Reading and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded Science in Culture project Cultivating Common Ground, gives a scientist’s perspective on the…

Sir John Lubbock FRS, later Lord Avebury, is frequently noted for his close relationship with Charles Darwin and his friendship with other better-remembered contemporaries, such as his X-Club compatriots T. H. Huxley and J. D. Hooker. However, in recent years there has been increasing interest in Lubbock in his own right. Lubbock was one of…

The Canadian scholarly journal Canadian Literature is dedicating a special issue to the subject of Canadian Literature and Science. We welcome submissions from scholars on this topic from anywhere in the world. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2013: please see the CFP on the Canadian Literature Website: http://canlit.ca/submissions/cfp/19   Questions in advance of…

‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority Medical Humanities Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 23-25 August 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS From nurses, physicians and surgeons to administrators, caregivers, physiotherapists, technicians, veterinarians and voluntary sector workers, this conference adopts the term ‘attentive writers’ as evocative of the multitude of both non-professional and professional caregivers – clinical and…

The fellowship is for two years, starting in September or October 2013. The successful applicant will be based in either the Faculty of English Language and Literature, or the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, depending on the area of specialism.   The proposed project may be in any area of science, medicine and literature studies,…

CALL FOR PAPERS Organised by members and PhD students of the Institute for British Studies of Leipzig University, the aim of this three-day interdisciplinary conference (20-22 March 2014) is to bring together researchers from diverse academic and professional disciplines. By establishing mathematics as the common denominator between the individual panels, the links between mathematics and…

We are pleased to announce the publication of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities vol.7 (2012) ‘Science and Literature: the Great Divide?’ The issue is available online here: http://www.mhra.org.uk/ojs/index.php/wph/index Constantly I felt I was moving among two groups – comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes,…

Three conferences, on the history and cultural representations of human remains, are taking place over the coming months.  The third event, at the Hunterian Museum, is sponsored in part by the British Society for Literature and Science small grants scheme: Medical Museums and Anatomical Collections, Natural History Museum, Toulouse (4 Feb) – Explora Programme 1 Anatomical…