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  • SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 31st August 2018

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    For those intending to submit an entry for this year’s essay prize, the JLS website is currently unavailable for technical reasons and is unlikely to be back online before the 31st August deadline. If you would like to view sample essays which have won the prize in previous years you may do so through the following…

  • CFP: ‘The Disease of Caring’: Medical Professionals and Activism from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

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    Friday 26 October 2018 School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London Supported by the Birkbeck/Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund and the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies Keynote speaker: Dr Anne Hanley (Birkbeck) In In Darkest London (1891), Margaret Harkness’s popular novel about activism to alleviate poverty conditions in late nineteenth-century London, a doctor practising…

  • Call for Reviewers – Journal of Literature and Science

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    The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is once again looking for reviewers to review various articles in the field of literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for review. The list is by no means definitive; there’s…

  • Postdoctoral position available in Fiction Meets Science Research Group, Oldenburg, Germany.

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    The Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, invites applications for a three-year position commencing on September 1, 2018 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salaries are based on the German public service pay scale 13 TV-L. The position can be adapted for doctoral (completion of Ph.D.) or postdoctoral work,…

  • BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 31st August 2018

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    Following the success of the JLS/BSLS essay prize in previous years, The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science would like to announce the 2018 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 Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by…

  • Frankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies

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    CALL FOR PAPERS Arts University Bournemouth Frankenstein Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring Mary Shelley and Gothic Legacies Dates: Wednesday 31 October and Thursday 1 November 2018 Venues: Conference – St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth Keynote Speakers: Sir Christopher Frayling, Chancellor, Arts University Bournemouth Professor Elaine Graham, University of Chester Professor Sir Peter Cook, CRAB Studios (TBC)…

  • PhD Studentships at the University of Leuven

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    The MDRN research lab at the University of Leuven (Belgium) is launching a new research programme on “Literary Knowledge, 1890-1950: Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe”. Six competitive, full-time doctoral scholarships will be awarded within this programme supervised by Sascha Bru. A call for applications can be found on: http://mdrn.be/news/call-applications-mdrn-award-6-doctoral-scholarships The deadline for applying is…

  • Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities 2018

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    We are looking forward to over 120 presentations at The Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities conference at the University of Kent. The conference schedule and schedule of panel presentations are now online at our website:  https://research.kent.ac.uk/cognitivefutures2018/schedule-programme/   Registration Rates (3-day attendance, refreshments and lunch included):   Full rate Delegates: £230.00 Students: £170.00  …

  • BSLS Winter Symposium in 2018 – Call for expressions of interest

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    Expressions of interest are invited by 1 June in respect of the BSLS Winter Symposium in 2018. As members will remember, this is now a postgraduate and early career researcher-led event and presents a great opportunity to run a successful event at this stage in your career (with help and support from the BSLS Committee…

  • Registration open for Mathematics + Modern Literature Conference, 3-4th May, University of Manchester

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    Registration for the conference is now open and that it closes on the 1st May. The link to registration is here: https://mathematicsandmodernliterature.wordpress.com/register/ There is also a public event on the 3rd May inspired by the conference which is free of charge. It is called ‘In Conversation with Emily Howard: Exploring Mathematics, Music and Literature’, and includes a live…

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