Author: bsls
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JLS/BSLS Early Career Essay Prize
The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science would like to announce the 2023 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. They should be approx. 8,000 words…
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Special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on Literature and Science
The latest issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews brings together papers on literature and science from different countries and using diverse methodologies, mostly presented at the last Commission on Science and Literature conference in Girona in July 2022. To view the issue online, click here. The full contents of the issue are given below. Interfaces: Studies…
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BSLS PGR and ECR funding
The next deadline for BSLS postgraduate and early career researcher funding applications is the 1st of September 2023. Applications are accepted quarterly, by the first of March, June, September, and December. Bursaries may be used towards the cost of presenting research papers at conferences, for archival and research trips, for the attendance of summer school,…
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Lecture: ‘On Dragons and Dinosaurs’, Oxford Museum of Natural History, 5 September 2023
In January 1938, J.R.R. Tolkien gave a Christmas lecture for local children about ‘Dragons and Dinosaurs’. His talk was illustrated with a magic lantern show of slides from the Museum’s collection as well as some of his own hand-painted illustrations. Recent research by long-time BSLS members, John Holmes, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at…
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Call for Organisers: BSLS Winter Symposium 2023
Call for Organisers: BSLS Winter Symposium 2023An Online EventProposals due by 31 July The British Society for Literature and Science seeks organisers for its annual Winter Symposium, a PGR/ECR-led event on a specific theme proposed by the organisers. This year, the BSLS members at the annual conference expressed particular interest in themes of Scale, and Alternate Histories, but we…
