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  • The next BSLS conference

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    We are delighted to announce that the next BSLS conference will take place at the University of Surrey in Guildford on 10-12 April 2014. The call for papers will be posted with more details at the beginning of September.

  • 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

  • BSLS conference registration and provisional programme

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    The next BSLS conference will be taking place in Cardiff by Cardiff University and the University of Westminster from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th April. You can download a registration form and provisional programme here. For more details, including advice on travel and accommodation, please visit the conference website hosted by Cardiff University. BSLS Conference 2013 Registration…

  • 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…

  • Elections to the BSLS Executive Committee

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    At the next BSLS conference, all five of the posts on the Executive Committee will be due for re-election, as the present incumbents have now served a three-year term of office. Any member of the society wishing to stand for election to the posts should let me know by 16 March 2009, and should also…

  • Sci-Talk: website for connecting writers with scientists

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    BSLS members and readers of this website may be interested in SciTalk, a website facility run by Dr Ann Lingard and designed to offer “a way for scientists to communicate their expertise and their enthusiasm to writers, and a way for writers to find out about science and how scientists ‘work’ — through personal contact…

  • CFP: British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, 2009

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    The BSHS Annual Conference will take place at Stamford Hall, University of Leicester from 2 – 5 July 2009. The Programme Committee invites papers or sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine and their colleagues in the wider scholarly community on any theme, topic or period. The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for sessions or…

  • Biocentre: Arts & Technology symposium

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    People Power for the Third Millennium:Technology, Democracy and Human Rights BioCentre is pleased to announce the fourth symposium of the series: Arts & Technology: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Policy Making, Tuesday 14th October 2008 at the National Theatre, Southbank, 2-5pm, followed by drinks reception. When it comes to developments in science and…

  • CFP: Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question

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    Science Museum and Tate Modern, London, 23-24 January 2009 On 7 May 1959, C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture in Cambridge on the subject of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. A failed scientist and a moderately successful novelist, C. P. Snow drew on his experience as a Civil Service Commissioner to consider…

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