{"id":187,"date":"2014-02-14T22:31:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2014-02-14T22:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T22:32:26","slug":"british-society-for-literature-and-science-conference-2014-registration-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2014: Registration Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Gregory Tate writes with more details of this year&#8217;s BSLS conference, including information about speakers, trips and how to register:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Registration is now open for the ninth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science, which will take place at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on 10-12 April 2014. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey), Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Professor Mary Orr (University of Southampton). The conference will finish with an opportunity to visit Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, on the afternoon of Saturday 12 April.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Accommodation: please note that those attending the conference will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation. Information on local hotels is available on the conference website.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Membership: conference delegates will need to register as members of the BSLS (annual membership: \u00a325 waged \/ \u00a310 unwaged). It will be possible to join the BSLS when registering for the conference.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">To register for the conference please visit the University of Surrey online store at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/p92lleg\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #006a80; font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/p92lleg<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">. The deadline for registration is 27 March 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Information about how to get to the University of Surrey is available here:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surrey.ac.uk\/about\/visitors\/travel\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #006a80; font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/www.surrey.ac.uk\/about\/visitors\/travel\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #006a80; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">For further information and updates about the conference, please contact Gregory Tate (<\/span><a href=\"mailto:g.tate@surrey.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #006a80; font-size: medium;\">g.tate@surrey.ac.uk<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">) or visit the conference website at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pp6ubz5\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #006a80; font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pp6ubz5<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory Tate writes with more details of this year&#8217;s BSLS conference, including information about speakers, trips and how to register: \u00a0 Registration is now open for the ninth annual conference&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=187\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}