Author: bsls
-
CALL FOR REVIEWERS: Journal of Literature and Science
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 in the JLS. The list is by no…
-
BSLS/JLS Essay Prize – The Results
We are delighted to announce that the British Society for Literature and Science and Journal of Literature and Science prize for an essay by an early-career scholar has been won by Kimberley Dimitriadis for her essay “Telescopes in the Drawing-Room: Geometry and Astronomy in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss”. We offer our congratulations to Kimberley for what the…
-
2017: A Clarke Odyssey ~ A Conference Celebrating a Century of Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Registration now open for 2017: A Clarke Odyssey A Conference Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK Saturday 9 December 2017 Keynote Speakers: Stephen Baxter Professor Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent) Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most important British sf writers of the twentieth century…
-
Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, seeking scholars working at the intersection of the sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences
Applicants for the NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology may be of any nationality and will have achieved distinction in the field of philosophy, history, religion, astrobiology, astronomy, planetary science, the history of science, paleontology, Earth and atmospheric sciences, geological sciences, ethics, or other related fields. For more information, please go to http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/NASA-astrobiology.html
-
CFP: The British Society for Literature and Science Thirteenth Annual Conference, Oxford Brookes University, 5-7 April 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS The thirteenth annual conference of the British Society of Literature & Science will take place at Oxford Brookes University, from Thursday 5 April until Saturday 7 April 2018. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Professor Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University). The BSLS invites proposals for 20-minute…
-
Symposium: In the Shadow and Light of the Tavistock Institute’s Archive
You are warmly invited to attend a symposium celebrating 70 years of applied social sciences work at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, and its distinctive contribution to the development of organisational research, business management studies and consultancy. The symposium takes place at the Conway Hall in central London on Thursday 19th October 2017. It is free to…
-
Call for Papers JLS/CONFIGURATIONS “DOUBLE ISSUE”
THE STATE OF THE UNIONS What are the relations between literature, science and the arts within our field today? This special double issue marks a unique collaboration between the Journal of Literature and Science and Configurations. The first instalment – JLS 10:1 – was published this year and can be read here. We now invite…
-
CFP BSLS Winter Symposium: Metaphor in Literature and Science
BSLS Winter Symposium: Metaphor in Literature and Science – King’s College London, Saturday November 4, 2017 Keynote speaker: Professor Alice Jenkins, University of Glasgow The aim of this symposium is to re-examine the role of metaphor in literature and science studies in the light of new developments and questions in the field. The study of metaphor…
-
CFP: J.G. Ballard and the Sciences
A one-day international and cross-disciplinary conference exploring the intersections of the work of J.G. Ballard and the sciences. 25 November 2017 LAB 109, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Key Note Speaker: Christopher Priest Hosted by the Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy (CSFF) “Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate…
-
JLS: CALL FOR REVIEWERS
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 in the Journal. The list is by no…
