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  • Darwin, Tennyson and their readers conference

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    DARWIN, TENNYSON and their READERS: A Bicentenary Celebration, 1809 – 2009 A One-Day Conference to be held in Cambridge, Saturday 17th October 2009, 10am – 6pm. Plenary Speakers: Gillian Beer, George Levine Offers of Short Papers (20 minutes long) are invited. Please contact: Valerie Purton, Anglia Ruskin University (Valerie.Purton@anglia.ac.uk) by 1st October, 2008. 2009 will…

  • The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures

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    St Mary’s College, Durham 4-6 April Programme Friday 4 April 15.00-17.00: Registration Section One: The Anglophone World 17.30-18.30 David Amigoni (Keele): Down the Darwinian Line(s): Inherited Characteristics in Biology, Literature and Culture *20.00-21.00 A. S. Byatt and Patricia Waugh (Durham): Darwinian Fictions (Elvet Riverside 140) This event is open to the public – admission free.…

  • History of Science Society conference 2008

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    HSS 2008 Annual Meeting Call for Papers Pittsburgh, PA, USA 6-9 November 2008 (Joint meeting with PSA) The History of Science Society will hold its 2008 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA in the Omni William Penn hotel (site of the 1999 annual meeting). Proposals for sessions, contributed papers, and, for the first time, posters, must…

  • Social History of Medicine 2008 conference

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    HISTORY AND THE HEALTHY POPULATION: SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT, HEALTH AND MEDICINE Annual conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine www.sshm.org/ The Society for the Social History of Medicine 2008 Annual Conference will be jointly organised by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow, a research collaboration between Glasgow Caledonian…

  • Publishing Science: IES, London

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    The Institute of English Studies and the Book History Research Group of the Open University have a series of seminars titled ‘Publishing Science’ that may be of interest. Speakers are Jonathan Topham (28 Jan 2008), Jim Mussell (11 Feb), Gowan Dawson (25 Feb), and Angelique Richardson (10 March). The venue is Senate House: see the…

  • Call for papers: scientists as readers of literature

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    Abstracts are invited for a proposed panel on Scientists as Readers of Literature for the ‘Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence’ conference to be held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 21-23 July 2008. Papers may discuss the literary reading of scientists, natural philosophers or natural historians of any period. Please send…

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