Author: bsls

  • REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for ‘The Memory of Trees’ Conference hosted by the Literature & Science Hub, University of Liverpool

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    Date: 20th April 2017 Timings: 9.30am – 5.30pm Venue: School of the Arts Library, University of Liverpool, 19-23 Abercromby Square, L69 7ZG Registration is now open for ‘The Memory of Trees’, an interdisciplinary, one-day conference with the Literature and Science Hub on the cultural representation, study, and conservation of trees and woodlands. Our keynote speakers…

  • Victorian literature and the subconscious – Little Atoms Radio Show

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    The Little Atoms radio show is looking for academics to interview about Victorian literature and the subconscious. Please get in touch with Caroline Christie (caroline@89up.org) if interested.

  • Call from Prof. Willard McCarty (KCL) for editors of a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Interdisciplinary Engineering

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    Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (ISR) is a quarterly journal that aims to set contemporary and historical developments in the natural and social sciences, engineering and technology into their social and cultural contexts and to illumine their interrelations with the humanities and arts.   On behalf of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews allow me to issue this call for…

  • CFP – Psychopharmacology and British Literature: 1650 to 1900

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    Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 February 2017 Full name / name of organization: Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer Henke Contact email: natalie.roxburgh@uni-siegen.de, j.henke@uni-bremen.de Psychopharmacology and British Literature, 1650 to 1900, an edited volume to be submitted for consideration in the series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine, is now inviting submissions. This volume’s aim is to…

  • CFP: The Memory of Trees

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    Literature and Science Hub, University of Liverpool, 20th April 2017 An interdisciplinary, one-day conference on the cultural representation, study and conservation of trees and woodlands. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford), author of The Long, Long Life of Trees (2016) Trees are sites of natural, cultural and personalised memory. Their…

  • Doctoral Fellowships in Medicine and the Humanities

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    The newly founded research training group “Life Sciences – Life Writing” (GRK 2015/1), starting April 1, 2017, is advertising Doctoral Fellowships in Medicine and the Humanities (m/f), Reference 797/16. As part of the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded research training group “Life Sciences, Life Writing: Experiences at the Boundaries of Human Life between Biomedical Explanation…

  • CFP Pulse: a History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science Journal

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    The graduate journal Pulse is seeking book reviewers and research papers. Further information on reviewing is available here and on the call for papers here.

  • Research Studentships

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    Three Quintin Hogg Trust PhD studentships in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities is delighted to offer three fully funded Quintin Hogg Trust PhD studentships beginning in September 2017 for projects using the University of Westminster Archive. The Archive holds a wide collection of material on the history…

  • BSLS Small Grants Scheme and Postgraduate Conference Fund – Call for Applications

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    Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st March 2017. BSLS Small Grants Scheme Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £400 to promote the study of literature and science. We are open to all sorts of proposals other than personal conference expenses.…

  • Second Call for Papers: Mediating Climate Change

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    University of Leeds Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017 Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor Alexandra Harris (Liverpool); Professor Mike Hulme (King’s College London); Dr Adeline Johns-Putra (Surrey); Professor Toby Miller (Loughborough); Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) Our experience of climate change is always mediated. Its effects…

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