Month: September 2010
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Grace Stebbing
We have been asked to alert the membership to the research potential of writings by Victorian writer, Grace Stebbing. Her work has yet to receive any form of scholarly attention and very little is known about her. Indeed, despite her numerous volumes (many of which are listed on Google Books), few if any are currently in print. It is thought that Stebbing was the daughter of Henry…
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BSLS Book Prize 2010
The British Society for Literature and Science is pleased to invite nominations for the annual BSLS Book Prize. The prize of £150, together with a year’s free membership of the BSLS, will be awarded for the best book published in English in 2010 in the field of literature and science. Monographs, edited volumes, editions and books…
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Ahearn, Edward J., Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001
Edward J. Ahearn, Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001: European Contexts, American Evolutions (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), ix+236 pp. £55 hb. ISBN 978- 0754668824. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) Aside from its invocation of two critical and violent years, the title of this book is not enticing, yet what lies…
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CFP: The Virus (special issue of Excursions: The Postgraduate Journal for Interdisciplinary Research)
Call for Papers: The logic of the virus has become endemic. Viral ads mirror contagion to convey their message. Computers and systems are struck down by infections. Pigs and birds are transformed into sinister hosts. Terrorists form cells and virulent covert networks, globalisation becomes a creeping homogenisation attacking the idiosyncratic, and media rapidly evolve to…
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CFP – Lost and Found: In Search of Extinct Species
Explora International Conference 31 March–1 April 2011 CAS (EA – 801) / Toulouse Natural History Museum Extinction has always fascinated and intrigued men, be they men of science or men of letters. The history of the Earth has been marked by five major mass extinctions, the most famous being undoubtedly the one that saw the…
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Medicine at the Margins
Friday, April 15th 2011, University of Glamorgan Medicine at the Margins is the RCLAS Conference 2011, organised in partnership with the Glamorgan History Research Unit. Conference sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and by the International Gothic Association. Plenary Speaker: Dr Lauren Kassell, Pembroke College Cambridge Throughout the history of medicine there have always been knowledges…
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Selling Culture?: Cultural Identities in the Victorian Periodical Press
20 – 21 November 2010 (in association with the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions) Keynote Speaker: Dr Jim Mussell (Birmingham University) Roundtable Session: advice for postgraduates and early career researchers You are invited to contribute proposals on the theme of “Cultural Identities in the Victorian Periodical Press”,…
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Isis Focus Section – History of Science and Literature and Science: Convergences and Divergences
BSLS members might be interested in the Focus section of the latest issue of Isis. It’s free to access, at the following links: James J. Bono, Making Knowledge: History, Literature, and the Poetics of Science Colin Milburn, Modifiable Futures: Science Fiction at the Bench Laura Otis, Science Surveys and Histories of Literature: Reflections on an…
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Yi, Dongshin, A Genealogy of Cyborgothic
Dongshin Yi, A Genealogy of Cyborgothic: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Posthumanism(Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), 164pp. Hb £55.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-0039-4. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) Fearing the advent of cyborgs and genetically crafted organisms, opponents of technoscience typically shift their objections from rational bases to aesthetic ones: computers may one…
