Author: bsls
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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…
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CFP: Space in Time (October 12-13, 2023)
SPACE IN TIME: FROM THE HEAVENS TO OUTER SPACE The Warburg Institute 12–13 October 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS Space in Time is a forum for new work in the long and global cultural history of the space beyond Earth, from the ancient heavens to modern outer space. While space history is a vibrant field of study,…
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CFP: CoSciLit in the Multiverse (Aegina, Greece, July 2023)
Communicatiοn of Science and Literature in the multiverse Aegina, Aegina Island, Greece July 3-5, 2023 The International Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, The Municipality of Aegina, The Association of the Greek Physicists Society, The Science, Technology and Medicine Laboratory of the School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University, The Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic…
