Tag: CFP

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • CFP: 3rd Annual ‘Science & the Public’ Conference

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    Third Annual ‘Science & the Public’ Conference, University of Manchester, 21st and 22nd, June 2008 The past twenty years of scholarly study has demonstrated that science communication is a much more complex process than merely publishing in scientific journals and attending scientific meetings. Today the sciences are linked to society through many different channels of…

  • EVENT: Workshop on Popular Science Books

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    We are looking for contributors for a one-day event on popular science books to be held at Imperial College, London on 22nd Feb 2008. Literary critics, historians, writers, illustrators, publishers, prize-givers, reviewers, readers, booksellers, teachers (and others) are all invited to take part. Contributors will be asked introduce a book, collection, theme, or popular science…

  • BSLS 2008 latest

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    The call for papers for our annual conference is now available. The conference will be held in Keele Hall, a mid-nineteenth century manor now part of Keele University, set in its own magnificent gardens and park. Events planned for the conference include readings by two contemporary poets. Deryn Rees-Jones, recently voted one of the 20…

  • CFP:‘H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy’

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    The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference, Imperial College/Conway Hall, London, 28-29 September 2007 Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited for this year’s H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference will be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September) and by Conway Hall, Red Lion…

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    PATHOLOGIES: Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences August 20-21, 2007 Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK Plenary Speakers: Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday To consider how the body has been pathologized is to ask questions of what it means to be human. As the originating…

  • CFP: ‘New Maps of the Mind: Neuroscience, Microscopy and the Literary Imagination’

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    Dr Vike Martina Plock writes We are looking for one or two delegates to join us on a panel on neuroscience and literary modernism at the MSA 9th Annual Conference “Geographies of Visual and Literary Cultureâ€? in Long Beach, CA (1 – 4 November 2007).

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