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  • ‘American Maritime People’ Summer Institute

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    There are about three weeks left before the deadline for the NEH Summer Institute to be held at Mystic Seaport (CT, USA) this summer, 21 June to 30 July 2010. Entitled “The American Maritime People,” the institute will pay $4,500 to each participant to defray expenses; there are places available for faculty and graduate students…

  • London 19th C Studies Seminars

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    AUTUMN TERM 2009 The London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminars this term are organised by Birbeck College and entitled ‘The Victorians and Science’. The convener is Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck) 17 October 2009, 11am, Room G37 (Senate House, South Block, Ground Floor) Dr. Adelene Buckland (University of Cambridge), ‘Lyell’s Plots’ Dr. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter), ‘Hardy…

  • Public talk at the NMM: Poems of Space

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    Public talk: Poems of Space 10th November, 19:00-20:45, National Maritime Museum Lecture Theatre, £8 Renowned astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell explores the connections between poetry and science and her experience of compiling Dark Matter, an anthology of poems inspired by astronomy. Followed by a discussion with poet Kelley Swain (Darwin’s Microscope) and astronomer/writer Dr Pippa Goldschmidt. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/events/public-talk-poems-of-space/*/changeNav/false/from/2856 Tickets…

  • New Issue of the Journal of Literature and Science

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    The JLS has recently published its second issue, Vol.2, No.1. The issue contains articles on: The ichthyosaurus and its representations by JOHN GLENDENING Hoffmann’s motifs of physical movement by VAL SCULLION The sonnet and geometry by MATTHEW CHIASSON & JANINE ROGERS Additionally there are reviews of recent journal articles by Laura Voracheck, Anna Henchman, Mandy…

  • PhD studentships in ‘Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period’

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    Application deadline: 15/11/2008 The PhD-Net “Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period” is a bi-national PhD programme run collaboratively by King’s College London and the University of Stuttgart, which aims to forge interdisciplinary connections between various subjects in the Humanities (German Studies, English Studies, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and the Histories of Medicine,…

  • British Society for Literature and Science book prize 2009

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is pleased to invite nominations for the annual BSLS Book Prize. The prize of £150 will be awarded to the best book published in English in 2009 in the field of literature and science. Monographs, edited volumes, editions and books of creative writing are all eligible for consideration,…

  • Symposium: Narratives and Knowledge: The Early Modern Scientific Anecdote

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    Narratives and Knowledge. The Early Modern Scientific Anecdote (16-17th centuries) New College Symposium, University of Oxford 22-23 September 2009 Organisers : Frédérique Aït-Touati and Anne Duprat For further details, contact frederique.ait-touati@new.ox.ac.uk

  • Symposium: Euclidean Geometry in Nineteenth-Century Culture

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    A symposium on Euclidean geometry in nineteenth- and early twentieth- century British culture will be held in Cambridge, UK, 1-2 October 2009. The event will be highly interdisciplinary and easily accessible to non- mathematicians. Speakers include Professors Dame Gillian Beer, Joan L. Richards, Jeremy Gray, Marilyn Gaull, Linda Henderson and Robin Wilson. We aim to…

  • CFP: (Dis)Entangling Darwin

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    (Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections University of Porto, Portugal 2009 marks the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth (12 February 1809) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species (24 November 1859). The University of Porto CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) is holding a special conference to…

  • Cfp: Nature and the Long Nineteenth Century

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    A one-day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference exploring intersections of the natural world with nineteenth-century literature and culture, to be held at the University of Edinburgh, Saturday, 6 February 2010. Keynote speakers: Dr Martin Willis, University of Glamorgan, Dr Christine Ferguson, University of Glasgow, Professor Nick Daly, University College Dublin. In the twenty-first century, environmentalism and the…

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