Tag: CFP

  • 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…

  • CFP: British Society for Literature and Science conference 2009

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    The 4th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Reading on 27th-29th March, 2009. Keynote speakers will include Dame Gillian Beer, formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge; Patrick Parrinder, Professor of English at the University of Reading; and Simon Conway Morris,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Science and the Public conference, 21-22 June 2008

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    University of Manchester, UK Today the sciences are linked to society through many different channels of communication. The public interfaces with science during controversies that involve scientists as well as journalists, politicians and the citizenry as a whole. This interdisciplinary conference brings together diverse strands of academia in order to consider science, technology and medicine…

  • CFP: Special issue of Victorian Studies on Darwin

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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.�? The study of Darwin and the relationship of his life and work to Victorian culture has become an industry.…

  • 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…

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