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  • Order/Disorder

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    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…

  • Theories and Uses of Light postgraduate conference cfp

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    Theories and Uses of Light in British Arts of the 19th and 20th centuries Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, 20-21 June 2014 In a chapter from The Mirror and the Lamp entitled “Newton’s rainbow and the poet’s,” M. H. Abrams draws a genealogy of the critiques levelled by British writers at practitioners of physics and the natural…

  • Wireless: Oliver Lodge, Science, and Spiritualism

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…

  • ELINAS Inaugural Conference cfp

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    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…

  • British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2014

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    The BSHS Annual Conference will take place from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 July 2014 at the University of St Andrews. The Programme Committee now invites proposals for individual papers and for sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine, and from their colleagues in the wider scholarly community, on any theme, topic or period.…

  • Interdisciplinary conference on horror and the supernatural in Victorian culture

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    The University of Sussex is hosting a one day interdisciplinary conference on 19 June 2014 to explore and interrogate cultural cross-currents between nineteenth-century visual culture, science and social practice, particularly where these concern attitudes to, and instances of, the supernatural and horrific. To download the call for papers, click below: Sights and Frights CFP

  • SLSA-EU conference

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    The 8th SLSA-EU Conference, “Life, in Theory” will take place June 3-6, 2014, in Turin, Italy. For details, including the call for papers , see http://litsciarts.eu/. Plenary speakers are Claire Colebrook, Roberto Esposito, Giuseppe Testa, Paolo Vineis, and Cary Wolfe — leading scholars in political philosophy, critical theory, epidemiology, stem cell genetics, media theory, and…

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