Author: bsls

  • Justin D Edwards (ed) Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics

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    Justin D Edwards (ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics (London: Routledge 2015) 198 pp. Hb £90. ISBN: 978-1-138-79719-2 Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture is a bold new attempt to answer questions of how the Gothic has evolved to manifest itself within multiple technologies and various media. In its own…

  • ‘The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century’ Conference 18 June 2016, Newcastle University

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    Registration is now open for this FREE interdisciplinary conference. ‘The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century’ Conference 18 June 2016, Newcastle University ‘Sciences we now retrospectively regard as heterodox or marginal cannot be considered unambiguously to have held that status at a time when no clear orthodoxy existed that could confer that status…

  • ANIMALS : Non-Human and Human Alike – University of Bristol 17-26 May

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    The Wild Within – Harriet Ritvo Public Lecture. 17th May 2016 5.15pm, The Peel Lecture Theatre, Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, BS8 1SS. Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, will be giving the opening Public Lecture to a…

  • The Eye’s Mind: Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities

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    A conference will take place at UEA next month, organised by Matthew MacKisack (Exeter Medical School), which will explore ideas about the role of imagination and imagery in science and culture: https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/research/neuroscience/theeyesmind/conference/ An international conference at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 21 – 22 May 2016 The visual imagination is one…

  • BSLS 2016 Conference Programme

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    The full programme for the 2016 BSLS conference at the University of Birmingham is now available BSLS 2016 – Provisional Programme 2nd edn. For details of how register to attend the conference, please see this link.

  • CFP: Who Do They Think They Are? Cultures of Climate Scepticism, Anti-Environmentalism, and Conservative Environmentalism

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    Call for Papers/Expressions of Interest Who Do They Think They Are? Cultures of Climate Scepticism, Anti-Environmentalism, and Conservative Environmentalism Symposium, June 6-8 2016, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada   Environmentalists know who climate sceptics are: oil company shills, religious fundamentalists and neoliberal cheerleaders. The questions asked at this symposium are: who do they think they are? What kinds of…

  • CALL FOR REVIEWERS: Journal of Literature and Science

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    Dear BSLS Members,   The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is once again looking for reviewers to review various articles in the field of literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. Just to remind members, the JLS is unique in reviewing journal articles rather than books in the fields of…

  • CFP: Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind

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    Call for Papers Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind 15-16 July 2016, University of Bristol   The AHRC-funded network, ‘Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind’, seeks to investigate the historical and discursive links between literary modernism, medical discoveries, and clinical practice, in dialogue with the insights of visual artists and art historians, dancers and dance…

  • 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…

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