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  • Cannibal Modernisms conference

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    Cannibal Modernisms King’s College London Programme in Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference,  7th-8th November, 2013. Keynote Speaker: Professor Xudong Zhang, Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University. “Politics of the Flesh:  The Animal in Redefining the Human in Modern Chinese Literature and Ideology”  Cannibal Modernisms will be two-day conference exploring the metaphorical implications…

  • Workshop on women’s scientific travelling to 1850

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    Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, UK 27-28 June 2014 Speakers to include: Professor Barbara Gates (University of Delaware), Professor Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University), and Professor Ann Shteir (York University, Ontario, Canada) Scholars have long been familiar with the scientific endeavours of late 19th-century women travellers…

  • ESHS conference update

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    The deadlines on the call for papers for the European Society for the History of Science conference in Lisbon in September 2014 have been extended as follows: Symposia Submission (theme and rationale of symposium and abstract of papers) – 10 Jan 2014 Decision regarding accepted symposia – 10 February 2014 Abstract Submission for stand-alone papers)–…

  • Staging Science

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    The Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination at the University of Westminster is holding a two-day event on Staging Science on December 6th and 7th, including a roundtable, a colloquium and a performance of the Pepper’s Ghost Illusion with Charles Dickens’s ‘The Haunted Man’. For more details, and to reserve places, click here: STAGING…

  • Literature and science event at the Geological Society

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    Ask the Mountains Their Story: an evening of science and literature On Friday 18th October the Geological Society of London celebrates different forms of writing that address geology, climate change and scientific discovery with an evening of talks and readings celebrating the links between science and literature. Marking the end of an Arts Council England funded project…

  • Fractured Histories: Discovering Women Scientists in the Archive

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    The Women in Science Research Network is holding a workshop at the Royal Society on 16th July on the use of archival research to identify women working in science from 1830 to the present. To see the full details of the workshop, with instructions on how to register, click here. FRACTURED_HISTORIES_Final_Workshop_Call

  • Conference on Motion

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    Registration for in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion on 27th June at the University of Birmingham is now open at http://pgculturalmodernity.wordpress.com/. The event is free and open to all who are interested. If you would like any further information, please email pgculturalmodernity@contacts.bham.ac.uk. in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham  

  • Friday lunchtime lectures at the Royal Society Centre for History of Science

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    BSLS members are warmly invited to attend the Royal Society’s forthcoming lunchtime lecture series. Lectures are free and are held at the Royal Society. Further details of the lectures, and the full spring 2013 programme, can be found on the Royal Society’s events website royalsociety.org/events, but BSLS members may be particularly interested in the following…

  • Silent Spring project

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    Postgraduate Funding Opportunity Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment An AHRC collaborative skills project hosted by the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York and Birkbeck, University of London A number of travel bursaries are available for postgraduates and early career researchers to participate in this project, which uses Rachel…

  • A Pre-Raphaelite Museum

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    In the 1850s, when Oxford University scientists were seeking inspiration for their new Museum, they turned to the bold, avant-garde art movement of their day – the Pre-Raphaelites. Guided by John Ruskin’s call for ‘truth to nature’ in art, their principles and practices shaped the decoration of this intricate and stunning building. In a talk…

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