Category: Other Organisations

  • International Summer School on Science and Literature

    —

    by

    John Holmes

    in , ,

    INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE DIVISION of HISTORY of SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL UNION for the HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY of SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE Following the successful 1st International Conference on Science and Literature, that took place in Athens last year, the International Commission on Science and Literature…

  • International Conference on Science and Fiction CFP

    —

    by

    bsls

    in ,

    An international conference on Science and Fiction: A Creative Exploration of Real and Fantastic Worlds will be hosted by the Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology and the Catalan Society for SF and Fantasy on September 2-5, 2015. The main goal of the conference is to analyze and discuss the relations between science and…

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

    —

    by

    bsls

    in , ,

    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…

  • Order/Disorder

    —

    by

    bsls

    in ,

    The London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group will be meeting to discuss order and disorder at the Dana Centre at the Science Museum in London at 6.30 on 15th April. To read more about this event, and to book a ticket, visit their website. Their next event will be on ‘Blindness’. This will take place on 7th…

  • Wireless: Oliver Lodge, Science, and Spiritualism

    —

    by

    bsls

    in ,

    Wireless: Oliver Lodge, Science, and Spiritualism Royal Society, London, 24 April 2014 Registration now open Oliver Lodge’s work in telecommunications arose from his life-long interest in the ether.  This workshop explores Lodge’s impact on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century  telecommunications, particularly wireless telegraphy and radio, but situates this alongside his interest in more esoteric etheric phenomena.  Studying Lodge’s…

  • Science and the Humanities for Early Career Scholars

    —

    by

    bsls

    in , ,

    The centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the Humanities and Science at the University of Reading is holding a one-day interdisciplinary workshop, funded by the British Academy, bringing together scholars working in the history of science with those working on literature and science. The workshop is aimed at PhD students, postdocs, and those in the early stages…

  • AHRC Science in Culture event

    —

    by

    bsls

    in , , , ,

    Applications are now open for an AHRC Science in Culture Theme Ignite event to be held at the Natural History Museum on Wednesday 26th March 2014. The event is an opportunity for Early Career researchers and will showcase the best of interdisciplinary research across the Arts, Humanities and Sciences. Further information about the event, including a call…

  • Conference on Victorian Sustainability

    —

    by

    bsls

    in , , ,

    Victorian Sustainability   British Association for Victorian Studies conference  University of Kent Canterbury September 4-6, 2014 Call for Papers From emerging ideas about the perils of environmental degradation to the establishment of the National Trust, the concept of sustainability began to take on a new importance in the Victorian period that remains relevant in 21st-century…

  • SLSAeu relaunch and conference

    —

    by

    bsls

    in ,

    SLSAeu, the European branch of the international Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, has recently been relaunched. Its executive office is now located at the English Department, University of Basel, Switzerland. To read more about the Society, please visit the website at: http://engsem.unibas.ch/research/research‐projects/slsaeu You can also download a flier for SLSAeu, including details of their next…

  • ELINAS Inaugural Conference cfp

    —

    by

    bsls

    in , , ,

    Call for Papers for the Inaugural Conference of ELINAS (Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Sciences) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Germany 29.05. – 01.06.2014 Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization Physics, literature, and literary criticism are discourses of knowledge production which have drifted apart considerably in the course of the modern functional differentiation…

css.php