Author: bsls
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Call for Crowdsourcing Participants: Picturing Pennant
Would you like to help the Curious Travellers project create an innovative online edition of arguably the most important travel books ever written about Wales and Scotland? ‘Picturing Pennant’ is a crowdsourcing project, run in collaboration with the National Library of Wales crowdsourcing team and the University of Glasgow. Focusing on Thomas Pennant’s eighteenth-century tours in Wales and…
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Neglected Biodiversity in Kitchens and Fictions – March 28th BioCriticism webinar
The 2025 BioCriticism webinar proposes interdisciplinary approaches to “Biodiversity and Neglect in Art and Science”. Each 90-minute session consists of two twenty-minute talks followed by discussion. Please join us for the first session on Neglected biodiversity in kitchens and fictions on 28 March 2025 at 14-15:30 Central European Time First speaker: Prof. Marko Rohlfs (Chemical…
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CFP: Aesthetics of the Clinic (11 June 2025, Cambridge)
This one-day symposium draws together scholars working at the intersection of literature, aesthetics and mental health to prompt a discussion on the relationship between psychiatric institutions and the production of literature. We ask: how does the space of the psychiatric clinic and innovations in psychiatry generate new literary and aesthetic production and how does that production respond to, reproduce or contest psychiatric space,…
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New Members of the BSLS Executive Committee Wanted!
We are seeking to fill at least three impending vacancies on the Executive Committee at the April Annual General Meeting, including: Communications Officer Member at Large Overseas Representative(s) (Europe and/or elsewhere—we are open to suggestion) Any member of the BSLS is eligible to be nominated for (and serve in) an open post, except that it…
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BioCriticism webinar 2025 – Biodiversity and Neglect in Art and Science
The 2025 edition of the BioCriticism webinar proposes interdisciplinary approaches to “Biodiversity and Neglect in Art and Science”. Each 90-minute session consists of two twenty-minute talks followed by discussion. We continue to meet on zoom at 2 pm Central European Time. Abstracts, biographies and information about the webinar are available here. The zoom link will be…
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BSLS PGR and ECR funding – next deadline 30th of January
The next deadline for BSLS postgraduate and early career researcher funding applications is the 30th of January 2025. For details see https://www.bsls.ac.uk/funding/
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CFP: Aquatic Life, 23-25 September, Clermont-Ferrand
This international symposium will explore representations of aquatic life in literature, the arts and the humanities in general, building on recent thinking such as writing the ocean through “thalassopoetics”, a concept coined by Isabelle de Vendeuvre, or following on from the EASLCE “Sea More Blue” congress held in Perpignan in 2024. The symposium thus investigates…
