'The "Artificial" and the "Natural"' Workshop - Registration still open
Registration the workshop 'The "Artificial" and the "Natural" in the Life Sciences, c. 1850-1950' is open. The event will take place from Thursday 26th to Friday 27th June 2014.
The event will be bring together historians, philosophers and sociologists with an interest in the history of the life sciences, particularly postgraduates, in order to discuss the manner in which particular views of art (and artifice or the artificial) and nature (or the natural) influenced the natural sciences in the pivotal century between 1850 and 1950.
The event is generously supported by the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter, the British Society for the History of Science and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Details of this are on the workshop website located at: http://exeter2014.wordpress.com.
Please email jwel201@ex.ac.uk for additional information.
The conference programme (also available on the website) includes three plenary talks by the following invited speakers: Helen Curry (University of Cambridge), Jon Hodge (University of Leeds), and Joeri Witteveen (Universiteit Utrecht).
Places at the event are limited, so if you wish to attend please register soon. The registration fee is £30 for the whole workshop, and the website to register at is here: http://store.exeter.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=20&prodid=779
If you know of anyone who would be interested in this workshop, please forward this notification on. We would also be grateful if you could post this event on your website.
Thank you,
Tarquin Holmes and James Lowe
Workshop co-organisers
University of Exeter
The event will be bring together historians, philosophers and sociologists with an interest in the history of the life sciences, particularly postgraduates, in order to discuss the manner in which particular views of art (and artifice or the artificial) and nature (or the natural) influenced the natural sciences in the pivotal century between 1850 and 1950.
The event is generously supported by the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter, the British Society for the History of Science and the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Details of this are on the workshop website located at: http://exeter2014.wordpress.com.
Please email jwel201@ex.ac.uk for additional information.
The conference programme (also available on the website) includes three plenary talks by the following invited speakers: Helen Curry (University of Cambridge), Jon Hodge (University of Leeds), and Joeri Witteveen (Universiteit Utrecht).
Places at the event are limited, so if you wish to attend please register soon. The registration fee is £30 for the whole workshop, and the website to register at is here: http://store.exeter.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=20&prodid=779
If you know of anyone who would be interested in this workshop, please forward this notification on. We would also be grateful if you could post this event on your website.
Thank you,
Tarquin Holmes and James Lowe
Workshop co-organisers
University of Exeter