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  • BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2013

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    The British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2013 University of Kent, Canterbury 3 – 5 January 2013 This annual 3-day event gives postgraduates in the history of science, technology and medicine a chance to get to know each other and to present their work to a wider audience. The conference is organised…

  • 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…

  • London 19th C Studies Seminars

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    AUTUMN TERM 2009 The London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminars this term are organised by Birbeck College and entitled ‘The Victorians and Science’. The convener is Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck) 17 October 2009, 11am, Room G37 (Senate House, South Block, Ground Floor) Dr. Adelene Buckland (University of Cambridge), ‘Lyell’s Plots’ Dr. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter), ‘Hardy…

  • CFP: (Dis)Entangling Darwin

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    (Dis)Entangling Darwin: Cross-Disciplinary Reflections University of Porto, Portugal 2009 marks the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth (12 February 1809) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species (24 November 1859). The University of Porto CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) is holding a special conference to…

  • Royal Institution Lecture – April 7, 2009

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    The ‘science’ in Science Fiction Tuesday 7 April 7.00pm-8.30pm Speaker: Prof Mark Brake and Rev Neil Hook Since its emergence in the 17th century science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In turn, invention and discovery have forced writers to confront the nature and limits…

  • ‘ “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…

  • 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…

  • CFP: ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

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    ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science University of Glamorgan | The ATRiuM Campus Cardiff 8-9 May 2009 Keynote Speakers: Laura Otis (Emory University) | Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University) CALL FOR PAPERS The history of phobias as disease entities is intimately connected…

  • Conference CFP – Global Risk

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    CALL FOR PAPERS: Literature, Art and Culture in an Age of Global Risk An international, Interdisciplinary Conference Cardiff University, UK Thursday 2*Friday 3 July 2009 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Imre Szemán (McMaster University, Canada) Dr Charlie Gere (Lancaster University, UK) What are the cultural implications of living under conditions of global, manufactured risk? In the twentieth…

  • 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…

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