Author: bsls
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CFP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 21-23 October 2016 Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science (http://elinas.fau.de/) See the full CFP here: CfP-Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
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BSLS/JLS Essay Prize Winner 2016
The BSLS are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the essay prize jointly awarded with the Journal of Literature and Science is Rachel Murray’s essay titled ‘Vermicular Origins: The Creative Evolution of Samuel Beckett’s Worm’. We offer our many congratulations to Rachel. The judges wrote: “This essay offers a meticulously researched, original account of the…
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Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s
Creating Romanticism Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s Sharon Ruston Paperback edition out June 2016 Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print Paperback 9781349442959 Jun 2016 £19.50 $34.99 Hardback 9781137264282 May 2013 £58.00 $95.00 264 pp 216 mm x 138 mm Introduction Mary Wollstonecraft…
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CFP Writing Remains: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature
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…
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Science meets Poetry, Manchester, 26th July 2016
Science meets poetry is exclusive to EuroScience Open Forum and now celebrates its tenth year. The year 2016 is one of important anniversaries: 400th since the death of Shakespeare and Cervantès, 500th since the publication of More’s Utopia. Manchester, as the birthplace of the industrial revolution, looms large in the poetry of our times. Wordsworth…
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Justin D Edwards (ed) Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics
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…
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‘The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century’ Conference 18 June 2016, Newcastle University
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…
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ANIMALS : Non-Human and Human Alike – University of Bristol 17-26 May
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…
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The Eye’s Mind: Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities
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…
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BSLS 2016 Conference Programme
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.
