Author: bsls
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Nuclear Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theorising the Anthropocene after Quantum Physics
A workshop at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh 29th May 2017 Keynote: Professor Peter Middleton, University of Southampton ‘Poetry at the Frontiers of Physics’ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nuclear-nature-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-theorising-the-anthropocene-after-quantum-physics-tickets-33614562060?aff=ampmlt
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BSLS Book Prize Shortlist announced
The following books have been shortlisted for the BSLS Book Prize for 2016: Gowan Dawson, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (Chicago) Devin Griffiths, The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins (Johns Hopkins) Ursula K. Heise, Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (Chicago) David Thorley, Writing Illness…
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BSLS 2017 Conference Programme
The full programme for the BSLS 2017 conference at the University of Bristol is now available here. For further details, please see the conference website.
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for ‘The Memory of Trees’ Conference hosted by the Literature & Science Hub, University of Liverpool
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…
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Victorian literature and the subconscious – Little Atoms Radio Show
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.
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Call from Prof. Willard McCarty (KCL) for editors of a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Interdisciplinary Engineering
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…
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CFP – Psychopharmacology and British Literature: 1650 to 1900
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…
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CFP: The Memory of Trees
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…
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Doctoral Fellowships in Medicine and the Humanities
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…
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CFP Pulse: a History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science Journal
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.
