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  • Special Issue Call for Papers – Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies

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    Special Issue Call for Papers Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies Guest editors: Simona Bartolotta, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen; Adele Guyton, UCLouvain; Ciarán Kavanagh, Ghent University Neohelicon invites article submissions for a special issue on “Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies.” The relationship between aesthetic form and its instrumental functions…

  • BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium Call for Papers

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    Occult Science: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and the Persistence of Wonder 29 January 2027 – Online Despite enduring narratives that cast modern science as the agent of rationalisation, the relationship between scientific knowledge and the occult has never been a simple story of succession or exclusion. In recent years, scholarly discourse has increasingly challenged this presumed binary,…

  • 2026 Winner of the BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize

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    Many congratulations to Daniel Bowman, for his winning essay “Coach Dog to Automobile Dog: Canines in Literature and Car Culture.” The essay explores the nonhuman animals at the heart of the transition from horse-drawn carriage to automobile, for whom the arrival of the motorcar marked displacement rather than progress. Scholars of animal studies and the…

  • CfP – Theatre About Science: Knowledge, Engagement and Action

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    CALL FOR PAPERS Theatre About Science: Knowledge, Engagement and Action Co-editors: Mário Montenegro, Fernando Matos Oliveira, Clara Barata, Sara Varela Amaral, Ana Santos Carvalho, Catarina Seabra, João Gaspar, Silvia P. Carballo, Francisca Moreira Following on from the Theatre About Science International Conference 2025, and as in previous years, we are opening a call for papers for…

  • Journal of Literature and Science: Call for Reviewers

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    CALL FOR REVIEWERS: PUBLISH WITH US Journal of Literature and Science The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is looking for reviewers to review various articles published in the last year to 18 months in the field of literature and science. Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for…

  • RA Role: Mary Shelley

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    Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of English is seeking to appoint an outstanding Research Associate to support the project: The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley, edited by Professor Sharon Ruston and Professor Daniel Cook and scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press between 2028 and 2035. This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career researcher with…

  • Research Associate: ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 – Present’

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    Posting on behalf of Dr Francesca Mackenney Research Associate: ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 – Present’ – (9221) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers Manchester Metropolitan University is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral Research Associate in History (full-time, 3 years) to join the team for Dr Francesca Mackenney’s Leverhulme-funded project, ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 -…

  • Postdoc in “Science Narratives”, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg

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    The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fresh frameworks of thinking for the humanities and social sciences, and works to develop the modern, integrated, and broadly interdisciplinary approach that is…

  • Book Prize Nominations Now Open

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    Dear all – the 2026 BSLS Book Prize is now open for nominations! Since 2007 the BSLS has awarded an annual prize for the best book in the field of Literature and Science. If you have read, or written, a book published in 2026 that you think worthy of consideration for the prize please send…

  • CfP: Science narratives and the public

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    A conference taking place on 20 November 2026 at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG, London 9.30am – 5.00pm Deadline for submissions: Friday 26 June 2026 2026 sees the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough FRS, perhaps the greatest exponent of natural history through television. His work is part of a long…

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