Author: bsls
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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.
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Research Studentships
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…
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BSLS Small Grants Scheme and Postgraduate Conference Fund – Call for Applications
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.…
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Second Call for Papers: Mediating Climate Change
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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CFP Imagining Communities. How learned collectives have formed themselves through literary means
Panel session at the 12th Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science 6-8 April 2017, University of Bristol In Imagined Communities (1983) Benedict Anderson famously argued that the idea of the nation, and national belonging, first developed with the rise of news periodicals and new ways of story-telling in novels. Readers…
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CFP Gut Feeling: Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Culture
An interdisciplinary workshop, 26-27 May 2017, University of Aberdeen Gut health has become a buzzword in contemporary culture. Ground-breaking research is pointing to potential links between the gut and such diverse areas as our mood, weight, and thought processes. The current debates on the digestive system and our physical and mental health, however, are not…
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BSLS Book Prize 2016
Nominations for The British Society for Literature and Science book prize 2016 are now being sought. All nominated books must be dated 2016 and should be academic titles (usually monographs or essay collections) in the area of literature and science (including technology and medicine, in all periods). The prize is not open to creative writing.…
