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‘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…

A two-day interdisciplinary symposium at Birkbeck, University of London supported by Birkbeck School of Arts and MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics) Confirmed speakers include: Dr Lisa Baraitser, Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck: Time and Again: Repetition, maternity and the non-reproductive Dr Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Roehampton University: Anti-, Non-, Post-Reproduction Birkbeck is hosting a two-day interdisciplinary symposium on…

Call for expressions of interest Please respond to k.price@qmul.ac.uk A call for papers will be circulated in 2013 ‘Popular Science, Altered Consciousness and Twentieth-Century Culture’ Date: November 2013 (one-day conference to be held on a Saturday) Venue: Queen Mary, University of London Funded by the British Society for the History of Science Supported by the Centre…

The next meeting of the London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group will take place on 22nd January 2013 from 6-8pm at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre. Details are on the group site. At this meeting our speakers Helen Barron, Matteo Farinella, Ludmilla Jordanova, Toby Ward and Lucy Wilford will discuss vision and images from the perspectives of history, medicine (psychiatry), art and neuroscience. Each…

The deadline for the submission of abstracts for papers and panels is now only a week away (Friday December 7th). There is already healthy interest, so the conference organisers would appreciate hearing from all members aiming to give a paper. As always we want to do our best to accommodate everyone. The email address for…

The first BSLS Autumn Newsletter is now available to Members. Click here to access it (log-in required). The Newsletter offers reports on the activity of the Society and its members over the past year, and it will be made publicly available in 2013.