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  • CFP: Women’s Scientific Literatures (Anglia Ruskin, 26-27 June)

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    Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy   26–27th June 2025, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Deadline for submissions: Monday 3rd March 2025 Contact email: WomensScientificLiteratures@gmail.com   The international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Anglia Ruskin University; University of…

  • New Members of the BSLS Executive Committee Wanted!

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    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…

  • New Seminar Series: Crude Representation: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil

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    We are delighted to share details of Crude Representation: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, an online seminar series that will run from February to April 2025. Each event will feature three speakers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. All events are free to attend. You can register to attend via Eventbrite. Crude Representations Seminar 1:…

  • BioCriticism webinar 2025 – Biodiversity and Neglect in Art and Science

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    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…

  • BSLS PGR and ECR funding – next deadline 30th of January

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    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/

  • CFP: Aquatic Life, 23-25 September, Clermont-Ferrand

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    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…

  • CFP: Unquiet shores: coastal acoustics and the terpsichorean ocean

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    18-20 June 2025, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, and online deadline for proposals: Monday 10 February 2025. The Haunted Shores and Macabre Danse networks welcome proposals for papers, panels, or workshops on anything relating to sound or hearing on the shore, in coastal waters, or inland coastal regions, from any time period, form, media, genre, or…

  • CfP SLSAeu 2025

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    The CFP for the SLSAeu conference 2025, to be held in London, is now online, with the abstracts due by the 20th of January 2025. The conference is a joint SLSAeu/SAACY event: “The Lifespan: Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course from the Medical Humanities, the Health Sciences and Age Studies” The conference website is…

  • Post Doc Opportunity: Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris)

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    Applications are invited for a two-year FT post doctoral position at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, to research the history of the geology collections at museum, using the archives, libraries, and collections. The position is part of the larger PEPR ‘Origins’ project. Application deadline: 16 December 2024.

  • CFP: Fat Fictions (BSLS Winter Symposium, 25 January 2025)

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    British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 24/25: ‘Fat Fictions’ University of Strathclyde   ‘Fat Fictions’ is a free one-day digital symposium hosted by the British Society for Literature and Science and the University of Strathclyde. The symposium will take place on Saturday 25th January 2025. Participation is encouraged from PGRs and ECRs. Abstracts…

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