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  • Metrics and journals in the history of science, technology and medicine

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    The following statement is being printed in the editorial pages of many of the major journals in science studies: Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology and Medicine Editors We live in an age of metrics. All around us, things are being standardized, quantified, measured. Scholars concerned with the work of…

  • PhD opportunity in literature and science

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    King’s College London / University of Stuttgart PhD-Net “Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period” Application deadline: 15/11/2008 The PhD-Net “Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period” is a bi-national PhD programme run collaboratively by King’s College London and the University of Stuttgart, which aims to forge interdisciplinary connections…

  • Conference: Thomas Beddoes, Doctor of Enlightenment

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    Friday 12 December 2008 at 9:00am Location: Royal Society, Kohn Centre A one-day conference organised in conjunction with the Centre for Life Writing Research, King’s College London. Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of British medicine. Part of a group of radical physicians friendly with Erasmus Darwin…

  • LAUNCH OF THE JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE

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    UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN, CARDIFF, SEPTEMBER 12 THE JLS The Journal of Literature and Science is a new, peer-reviewed, online journal hosted by Glamorgan’s Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, founded in 2006. The Centre directors are Professors Andrew Smith & Jeff Wallace, and Dr Martin Willis, who is also the Journal of Literature and…

  • CFP: Graduate journal issue on Technology and Humanity

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    Technology and Humanity The following is a call for articles for a forthcoming themed issue of eSharp, an established peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality research by postgraduate students. eSharp is pleased to support new and early-career authors, and has actively encouraged emerging academic talent since 2002. The twelfth issue of eSharp will consider the cultural and…

  • Call for Papers – Génétique et Culture Française

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    International Conference: Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, London, Thurs 2 – Fri 3 July 2009. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Jacques Testart, Honorary Research Director of I.N.S.E.R.M;Fay Brauer, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. Difference, whether between individuals, whole populations or discrete organic species, has always been a source of fascination for mankind. The…

  • Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies cfp

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    2009 is both the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species. Victorian Studies will mark the occasion with a special issue on “Darwin and the Evolution of Victorian Studies.” Since the publication of VS’s first Darwin issue in 1959, the study of Darwin and the relationship of his…

  • BSLS panel at RED conference, July 2008

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    The conference organised by the Reading Experience Database will include a guest panel from the BSLS. Titled ‘Scientists Reading Literature’, the panel will feature papers by Gowan Dawson (Leicester), Mary Noble (Princeton) and Stephen Jacyna (UCL) and will be chaired by Alice Jenkins (Glasgow): Gowan Dawson, ‘The novelist puts this and that together’: Richard Owen’s…

  • Medicine and Literature conference: Before Depression

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    BEFORE DEPRESSION: THE REPRESENTATION AND CULTURE OF DEPRESSION IN BRITAIN AND EUROPE, 1660-1800 A three-day conference at The University of Northumbria at Newcastle and the University of Sunderland June 19th to 21st, 2008 Plenary Speakers: MADELEINE DESCARGUES-GRANT (Université de Valenciennes) ELAINE HOBBY (University of Loughborough) PETER SABOR (McGill University) Call for papers This conference seeks…

  • ‘Literature and Science Under the Microscope’ – an informal response

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    Gowan Dawson’s excellent review article in the recent JVC of the ‘state of the union’ of literature and science is especially welcome to all of us committed to the new British Society for Literature and Science, and to me personally as the Society’s Membership Secretary. I hope, indeed, that it brings me a significant amount…

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