Author: bsls
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PhD position – Fiction Meets Science
The Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, invites applications for the three-year position of a Research Fellow in English / Anglophone Literatures commencing on June 1, 2018 or as soon as possible thereafter. The working hours comprise 25.87 hours a week and the salary is based on the German public service…
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Shortlist for the BSLS Book Prize Announced
The following books have been shortlisted for the BSLS Book Prize for 2017: Melissa Bailes, Questioning Nature: British Women’s Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830 (U of Virginia Press) Mary Fairclough, Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 (Palgrave Macmillan) Katherine Hayles, Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (U of Chicago Press) Benjamin Morgan, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics…
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BSLS Conference 2018 Programme
A provisional programme for the BSLS annual conference 2018 at Oxford Brookes can be viewed here.
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Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850-1950
Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850-1950 deadline for submissions: April 2, 2018 full name / name of organization: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK contact email: sciencesofthemindconference@gmail.com 17-18 July, 2018 – University of Kent Keynote Speakers:Professor Helen Small, Pembroke College, University of Oxford Professor Priscilla Wald, Duke University This…
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BSLS 2018 Conference Registration now open
Registration is now open for the British Society of Literature & Science at Oxford Brookes, 5-7 April 2018. Registration will remain open until Monday 26th March. Please make sure you select the right option – there are two booking sites – one for postgraduate students/unwaged and the other the full standard option for those of us…
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PERSONIFICATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES An interdisciplinary conference at Durham University September 17-19, 2018
***EXTENDED DEADLINE FEBRUARY 23, 2018*** Humans have a flair for attributing intentions, traits, agency, emotions and mental states to beings or things – either real or imagined. Whether anthropomorphising natural or abstract shapes, playing with imaginary companions, (re) constructing fictional characters and dialoguing with gods or hallucinatory presences, the attribution of an agentive mentality…
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CFP: Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850-1950
17-18 July, 2018 – University of Kent Keynote Speakers:Professor Helen Small, Pembroke College, University of Oxford Professor Priscilla Wald, Duke University This conference aims to stimulate a wide-ranging discussion about the interactions between British and American literature, education, and the sciences of the mind between 1850-1950. We welcome paper and panel proposals on any aspect…
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New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course 19 March 2018
University of Leeds Registration is now open for “New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course”. This free two-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Leeds, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will bring together speakers in the humanities and social sciences from Europe, America, and Asia to share new perspectives on…
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FAO ECRs: 13th Forum Literature and Science History, Berlin
29 June 2018, 10:00–18:00 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in collaboration with the Institute for German and Dutch Philology and Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of the Free University of Berlin, invites early career scholars to take part…
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CFP Reminder – special issue of Foundation devoted to the cultural legacy of Frankenstein.
For further information, see: http://www.sf-foundation.org/node/233
