Report on the British Society of Rheology mid-winter meeting on The Rheology of Foams and Emulsions, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London 10th - 11th December 2007

S.J. Cox, S. Neethling and H. Wilson (2008) British Society of Rheology mid-winter meeting on The Rheology of Foams and Emulsions. Applied Rheology 18:93-95

Public religions and civil society: the case of London Methodism

Amendments to secularization theory have brought the issue of public religions to the fore in recent years. In particular, the work of Casanova and Beyer has maintained the importance of functional differentiation whilst pointing to the flow of religious discourses across social boundaries. These issues, however, have received little ethnographic attention, such that many of the problems associated with theories of differentiation and globalization have not been engaged in a sustained manner. Research within black majority London Methodist congregations is drawn upon to suggest ways in which these theories can be reconsidered. Three related issues are focused upon: the continued importance of the nation-state (including national stratifications); the importance of a practical approach to religion, such that discourses are understood as ‘practical discourses’; and the importance of not privileging religion by reifying it in functional terms. These considerations have ramifications not only for secularization theory, but the general field of the sociological study of religion.

Studying Gender in Conference Talks -- data from the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society

We present a study on the gender balance, in speakers and attendees, at the recent major astronomical conference, the American Astronomical Society meeting 223, in Washington, DC. We conducted an informal survey, yielding over 300 responses by volunteers at the meeting. Each response included gender data about a single talk given at the meeting, recording the gender of the speaker and all question-askers. In total, 225 individual AAS talks were sampled. We analyze basic statistical properties of this sample. We find that the gender ratio of the speakers closely matched the gender ratio of the conference attendees. The audience asked an average of 2.8 questions per talk. Talks given by women had a slightly higher number of questions asked (3.2$\pm$0.2) than talks given by men (2.6$\pm$0.1). The most significant result from this study is that while the gender ratio of speakers very closely mirrors that of conference attendees, women are under-represented in the question-asker category. We interpret this to be an age-effect, as senior scientists may be more likely to ask questions, and are more commonly men. A strong dependence on the gender of session chairs is found, whereby women ask disproportionately fewer questions in sessions chaired by men. While our results point to laudable progress in gender-balanced speaker selection, we believe future surveys of this kind would help ensure that collaboration at such meetings is as inclusive as possible.

Printed books in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Bound with: Printed books in the library of Antiquaries of London, 1887.

Philosophical collections : containing an account of such physical, anatomical, chymical, mechanical, astronomical, optical, or other mathematical and philosophical experiments and observations as have lately come to the publishers hands, as also an account of some books of this kind lately published.

Mode of access: Internet.

Mathematics, from the points of view of the mathematician and of the physicist. An address delivered to the Mathematical and Physical Society of University College, London,

Cover title.

Transactions and proceedings of the Japan Society, London.

English title preceded by title in Japanese.

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Title from caption.

Monograph on the constitution of coal (based on a paper read before the London section of the Society of chemical industry).

Mode of access: Internet.

The old constitutions belonging to the ancient and honourable society of Free and accepted masons of England and Ireland. : Four reprints of the first editions published in London, 1722, 1723, ms. 1726, Dublin, 1730 /

Each reprint has special t.-p. and separate paging.

Letters of Isaac Penington : son of Alderman Penington of London, and an eminent minister of the gospel in the Society of Friends, which he joined about the year 1658.

Mode of access: Internet.

A letter to a Friend in London : on certain improprieties of expression used by some of the Society of Friends.

Mode of access: Internet.

Lectures on polarized light : delivered before the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and in the Medical School of the London Hospital.

Publisher's catalog comprises last 32 pages.

A concise view of the origin, constitution, and proceedings of the Honorable Society of the Governor and Assistants of London of the New Plantation in Ulster : within the realm of Ireland, commonly called the Irish Society /

Includes index.