Author: bsls

  • Call for papers for a collection of essays “Can It Be?”: Representations of Science in 21st-Century Fiction

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    As the third millennium progresses, science and technology more than ever govern human lives, and the topic of science and/in fiction shows no signs of decline, neither in terms of artistic production nor as an area of critical inquiry. As several critical accounts of the field of 21st century literature note, writers address contemporary issues…

  • CFP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference

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    University of Bristol, 6-8 April 2017 ONE MONTH LEFT TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACTS! The twelfth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Bristol, from Thursday 6 April until Saturday 8 April 2017. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Professor…

  • 2017: A Clarke Odyssey

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    A Conference Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK Saturday 9 December 2017 Keynote Speakers: Stephen Baxter Dr Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge) Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most important British sf writers of the twentieth century – novelist, short-story writer, scriptwriter, science populariser, fan,…

  • PhD Studentship on literature and science (nuclear literature)

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      Fully Funded PhD Studentship on  Nuclear Literature and Culture (School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University) http://www4.ntu.ac.uk/research/ntu_doctoral_school/studentships/index.html Closing date is 12 noon on Friday 9 December. For informal discussion regarding the project, please contact: daniel.cordle@ntu.ac.uk   We invite applications from prospective PhD students wishing to work on nuclear literature and culture under the…

  • Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Durham University

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    Applications are invited from outstanding candidates who have research and teaching interests in interdisciplinary literary studies, in an area such as (but not restricted to) digital humanities, literature and the environment, literature and visual culture, or cross-media narrative. The successful candidate will be expected to have an excellent research and teaching profile, commensurate with career…

  • CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION: Centre Scientifique de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences in Paris – 74, rue Lauriston Paris 75016

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    October 20-21, 2016  Life sciences: imagination and scientific discourse (late 18th – 19th centuries) Thursday October 20 – 9:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Opening – 9:30 a.m. Professor Marek Więckowski, director of the Académie polonaise des Sciences in Paris Professor Miroslaw Loba, Adam Mickiewicz University Professor Gisèle Séginger, Paris-Est University and Institut Universitaire de France SCIENTIFIC…

  • Cultures of Anxiety: A two-day interdisciplinary conference

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    8 & 9 June 2017 Clifton Hill House Function Foyer Although it is notoriously difficult to define, anxiety has long been theorized in a variety of fields, from philosophy to psychology, theology to neuroscience. Since 1980, when DSM-III separated anxiety neurosis into ‘panic disorder’ and ‘generalized anxiety disorder’, our understanding of and response to anxiety…

  • CFP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference

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    University of Bristol, 6-8 April 2017 The twelfth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Bristol, from Thursday 6 April until Saturday 8 April 2017. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Professor Robert Mitchell (Duke University), and Professor Ralph…

  • NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiology Chair

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    About the Program The Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiology Program establishes a focus in the nation’s capital for the exploration of issues surrounding life’s future in the universe, for humans and other species, on Earth and beyond. The program encourages discussion and reflection on the potential impacts of discovering whether there is life…

  • Call for Papers, ACLA 2017: Race Theory and Literature

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      American Comparative Literature Association// Utrecht University, Netherlands// July 6-9 2017 Emerging out of the practices of colonialism, imperialism, and slavery/slave trade, race theory has seen renewed and reinvigorated interest in the last sixteen years. Recent scholarship has started to examine the relationship between these varying theories on race from philosophical, philological, theological, historical, biological, and other…

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