Category: Related Events
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Cities and Science Summer school
The Central European University in Budapest is holding its annual Summer University for graduate students, junior or post-doctoral researchers, teachers and professionals on the theme of Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe. The course will take place on 18-27 July 2016, and the…
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Texts and contexts: the cultural legacies of Ada Lovelace (workshop, 8 December 2015)
Texts and contexts: the cultural legacies of Ada Lovelace An interdisciplinary workshop Tuesday 8 December, 10am-6pm (arrivals from 9.30am) Rooms L4 and L5, Mathematics Institute, University of Oxford Attendance is free, registration required In 2015 the University of Oxford is hosting a number of events to mark 200 years since the birth of mathematician…
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The Darwins Reconsidered
The University of Roehampton will be holding a colloquium on Erasmus and Charles Darwin on Friday 4th September. To see the full programme and to register, click here. There is a discount on the registration fee for members of the BSLS.
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Diseases of Modern and Fashionable Living workshop
‘The Diseases, Health Risks and Phobias of Modern and Fashionable Living: Victorian Perspectives’ A Workshop funded by the Leverhulme Trust Friday, 8 May 2015, 4.00 – 6.30pm Room 3.38 ARMB (Armstrong Building), Newcastle University Speakers: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford), ‘Fears and Phobias in Victorian Culture’. Dr Melissa Dickson (University of Oxford) ‘Weak Nerves…
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International Summer School on Science and Literature
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…
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Science and culture in the early C20th conference
Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century Institute of Historical Research, London 22-24 April 2015 Registration is now invited. See http://www.qmul.ac.uk/being-modern/ for programme and link to the registration page. Engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of “Being modern”, across culture in Britain and the western world in the years…
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Oxford literature and science seminars
To see this term’s schedule for literature and science seminars at Oxford University, click below: Oxford Literature and Science seminars Spring 2015
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ELINAS Inaugural Conference on Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization
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…
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Literature and Science seminars in Oxford
Monday 5 May 2014, 5.15pm Victorian Graduate Seminar: Tatiana Kontou (Oxford Brookes), ‘Florence Marryat’s Kore: Spiritualist and Literary Influences’. LOCATION: History of the Book Room, St Cross Building. Wednesday 7 May 2014, 5pm Astor Visiting Lectures: Professor George Levine, ‘Victorian finance and death: Money in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend’. There will be a drinks reception…
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Science and Literary Form
Seminar and Masterclass on Science and Literary Form – Janine Rogers speaking in London April 28th and 30th, 2014 Professor Janine Rogers from Mount Allison University in Canada will be a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination at the University of Westminster from April 28th to 30th, 2014. During that…
