Author: bsls

  • 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…

  • CFP Special Issue: The Literature of the Anthropocene

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    The concept of the Anthropocene, deemed by Bruno Latour “the best alternative we have to usher us out of the notion of modernization”, blurs the distinction between human and geological history (Dipesh Chakrabarty). It speaks, too, to contemporary fiction’s concern with the place of humans on the planet, the ways in which they shape -…

  • 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 Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) Our experience of climate change is always mediated. Its effects are encountered through changing…

  • REMINDER CFP Writing Remains: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature

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    Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Friday 20th January 2017. ‘It’s a kind of literary archaeology: on the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork you journey to a site to see what remains were left behind and to reconstruct the world that these remains imply’. Toni Morrison is not the only…

  • Journal of Literature and Science – Call for Reviewers

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    The latest call for reviewers from the Journal of Literature and Science is available here: JLS CALL FOR REVIEWERS 2016

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