Category: Related Events
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Ruskin, Science and the Environment
In honour of John Ruskin’s bicentenary, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History will be hosting a one-day conference on Ruskin, Science and the Environment on Friday 8th February 2019 from 9.30 until 6. Speakers will include Kate Flint (Southern California), Mark Frost (Portsmouth), Peter Garratt (Durham), Sandra Kemp (Director of the Ruskin Research Centre,…
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Upcoming events in Oxford
There are several events coming up in Oxford over the next few weeks connected to nineteenth-century literature and science. Click on the link for the schedule for this term’s Science, Medicine and Culture seminars and see the poster for an evening event on Victorian Speed produced by the Diseases of Modern Life project: Oxford Science,…
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Oxford Science, Medicine and Culture Seminars
For this term’s Oxford Seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, click below: Science, Medicine and Culture seminars
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Commission on Science and Literature conference in Paris July 2018
The Commission on Science and Literature will be holding its third conference on 2nd-4th July 2018 in Paris. Click below for the updated call for papers (deadline 10th March), together with a list of hotels near the conference venue. Proposals for papers and panels on any aspect of the relationship between literature and science worldwide…
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Scale of Nature conference
Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being One-Day Conference Saturday 18 March 2017 Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and Centre for Visual Arts and Culture https://www.dur.ac.uk/cncs/conferences/scaleofnature/ CFP Deadline: Friday 25 November 2016 Durham University, UK Keynote Address: Professor Peter Bowler (Queen’s University, Belfast) CALL FOR PAPERS Amongst the paradigms current in nineteenth-century…
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Visions of Nature events in Oxford
This year the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has been hosting a series of exhibitions, events and residencies under the theme Visions of Nature. In December, BSLS members John Holmes and Janine Rogers will be taking part in three public events at the museum as part of this celebration of art and poetry inspired by…
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Commission on Science and Literature news
The Commission on Science and Literature organized two events in the past summer. The workshop ‘Nature, Humans and God(s)’ was held on the island of Syros in Greece on 8-9 July. The 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature was held at Echophysics in Poellau, Austria, on 7-9 September. The proceedings of both meetings are to be published. In…
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Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars at the University of Oxford
This term there will be two seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at Oxford: Wednesday 19 October Dr Andrew Mangham, University of Reading ‘Have ye ever seen a child clemmed to death?’: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Physiology of Starvation 5.30 – 7.00, Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College Wednesday 9 November…
