Author: bsls

  • Postgraduate Conference Fund award winners

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    The BSLS is pleased to announce that we have made two awards in this year’s Postgraduate Conference Fund competition. Ryan Sweet, a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, has been awarded a bursary towards the cost of presenting his research at the Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies conference at the University of Alberta, Canada. Maria Avxentevskayato…

  • Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century Research Group

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      The next meeting of the Research Group will take place on Wednesday 17 February 2016 at the Lit and Phil Library in Newcastle upon Tyne between 6.00 pm and 7.30 pm. Dr Tricia Cresswell, Public Health doctor and MA student in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, will present a paper and lead a discussion…

  • CFP – Bridging the Divide: Literature and Science

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    Bridging the Divide: Literature and Science 3rd June 2016 hosted at the University of Kent Organised by the Universities of Kent and Sussex Keynote speaker: Dr Pamela Thurschwell – Sussex   ‘Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing’ – Thomas Huxley   The relationship between literature and science has…

  • Call for Papers: Mood – Aesthetic, Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives

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    An Interdisciplinary Two-day Conference at the University of Warwick 6th and 7th May 2016 Keynote speakers: Prof Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Author of Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature (2012), Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (2004) and After 1945 – Latency as Origin of the Present (2013). Prof Giovanna…

  • University of Exeter Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, 2016.

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    Call for Papers Keynotes: Dr Jana Funke (University of Exeter) Dr Mike Mantin (Swansea University) Following on from the success of preceding Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conferences in 2014 and 2015, this interdisciplinary conference aims to reflect the broad and vibrant research of the medical humanities by bringing together postgraduate researchers from across the field. We…

  • 2nd Newsletter for the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science (ELINAS) now available

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    The newsletter can be viewed at the following link   http://elinas.fau.de/newsletter/nov15_eng.html    

  • (Dis)Connected Forms: Narratives on the Fractured Self

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    8th and 9th September 2016 An Interdisciplinary Conference at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation Co-organised by Gul Dag and Sandra Mills University of Hull Discourses concerning the concept of (dis)connection are especially prevalent in contemporary society. The relationship between the mind and the body – whether fractured or in flux…

  • Science Fiction Research Association Conference 2016

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    Science Fiction Research Association Conference 2016 CFP – SFRA 2016 cfp 2.1 Sml  

  • Call for Fellowship Applications from the Library of Congress

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    The Astrobiology Chair is a distinguished senior research position in residence at the Library of Congress for a period of up to twelve months. Using research facilities and services at the Library of Congress, the scholar engages in research at the intersection of the science of astrobiology and its humanistic and societal implications. The appointment…

  • Call for contributors to Teaching Romanticism

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    As part of the ongoing series, ‘Teaching Romanticism’, I am seeking contributions on the topic of Literature and Science. This blog post will consider the opportunities for and challenges of teaching Literature and Science within the Romantic period (broadly defined). Contributors might explore approaches to a particular text, the challenges and advantages posed by interdisciplinary approaches, the use…

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