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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  …

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 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…

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…

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…

A provisional programme for the BSLS annual conference 2018 at Oxford Brookes can be viewed here.

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…

***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…