Category: Other Organisations

  • ‘What Scientists Read…’

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    Could reading Harry Potter help scientists cure the common cold? Could reading Harry Potter help science find a cure for the common cold, or studying Jane Austen make someone a contender for a Nobel Prize for physics? New research examining the influence literature has upon the work of scientists may soon help provide answers to…

  • SHAC Workshop: History of Alchemy and Chemistry

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    Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge This one day workshop, aimed particularly at postgraduates and early career researchers, introduces and explores historiographical and methodological issues unique to the history of alchemy and chemistry. We will investigate the practical challenges of researching chemistry over different periods, from pre-modern matter theories and artisanal…

  • Oxford Literature and Science Seminar

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    The Oxford Literature and Science seminar is meeting twice termly; all with a research interest in the area are welcome, whether members of the university or not. The second event in Trinity Term 2009 will be held in the Breakfast Room, Merton College, Oxford. Friday 12 June 2009 (7th week), 2pm. Jean-François Peyret (founder and…

  • Reviews for the Journal of Literature and Science

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    The Journal of Literature and Science, a peer-reviewed, electronically available journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature and science, is seeking new reviews for its next issues. The JLS reviews journal articles in the broad field of literature and science or the cultural history of science published within the year from one volume of the…

  • Arts-Science Encounters: A series of events at Sheffield University

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    The Arts meet Science in a series of provocative talks, where anything could happen. The Arts-Science Encounters are a series of talks bringing together researchers from across the University´s five faculties and recognised external speakers. The topics are broad ranging, including speakers from more than twenty disciplines, ranging from Chemistry, Fashion Design, Literature and Law,…

  • ‘ “Romantic Biographies” c.1770-1835’ May 2009

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    “Romantic Biographies”: Writing Lives and Afterlives, c.1770-1835 The Early Careers and Postgraduate Conference for The British Association for Romantic Studies 8 May 2009 at Research Institute for the Humanities, Keele University “As little more than an infant, he was walking through a graveyard with his sister, Mary, ten years his senior, and reading the epitaphs…

  • CFP: Fourth Annual Science and the Public Conference

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    University of Brighton, June 13th and 14th 2009. Science and the public: uncertain pasts, presents and futures. The relationship between science and the public has provided fruitful material for analysis from a range of academic disciplines, and an important area of policy and practice, in recent years. Studies and experience have revealed a startling complexity,…

  • Colloquium: Charles Darwin in Europe

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    A one-day colloquium on Charles Darwin in Europe will be held at Darwin’s college Christ’s, Cambridge, on Thursday 26 February 2009 to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth as well as the launch of *The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe*, edited by Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick. The colloquium will continue the discussions…

  • Society for Literature, Science and the Arts conference 2008

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    The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 13-16, 2008. The SLSA welcomes papers and panels on all topics of interest to SLSA members. This year, they also invite papers that touch on the theme of “Reiteration.” The deadline for…

  • Science and the Public conference, 21-22 June 2008

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    University of Manchester, UK Today the sciences are linked to society through many different channels of communication. The public interfaces with science during controversies that involve scientists as well as journalists, politicians and the citizenry as a whole. This interdisciplinary conference brings together diverse strands of academia in order to consider science, technology and medicine…

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