Author: bsls

  • BSLS Book Prize

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    Nominations are now being accepted for the BSLS Book Prize 2015. Inaugurated in 2007, the annual British Society for Literature and Science book prize is awarded for the best book in the field of literature and science published that year. Any book is eligible, but can only be considered if it is nominated either by…

  • ESSE 2016 Seminar: CFP Narrated Science/Scientific Storytelling

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        Please click on this link CfP MEYER ROSSINI Extended Hnet for the full cfp.

  • Science Fiction and Medical Humanities Workshop 27th November 2015

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    The Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project at the University of Glasgow are holding their first workshop, Science Fiction and Public Engagement with Medicine, to be held on Friday the 27th of November 2015 at the University of Glasgow. Our invited speakers are Jenny Kitzinger of Cardiff University and David Lawrence of the Costumed Visions of Enhanced Bodies project.  Those…

  • University of Pennsylvania English Department Assistant Professor in Literature and Science before 1900

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    University of Pennsylvania Literature and Science, Pre-1900 The English Department invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in literature and science before 1900. Conferral of Ph.D. by July 1, 2016 is expected. All applicants working in the medieval, early modern, long eighteenth-century, Romantic, and Victorian periods will be…

  • Call for Reviewers – The Journal of Literature and Science

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    The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is once again looking for reviewers to review various articles in the field 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 literature and science and the…

  • Call for Papers: Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities (Journal Issue – BMJ Medical Humanities). Deadline 1 March 2016.

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    Science Fiction and the Medical HumanitiesAs part of the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities’, the BMJ Group journal Medical Humanities will be publishing a special issue.We invite papers of broad interest to an international readership of medical humanities scholars and practising clinicians on the topic ‘Science Fiction and the Medical…

  • Texts and Contexts: The Cultural Legacies of Ada Lovelace

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    Texts and Contexts: The Cultural Legacies of Ada Lovelace “That brain of mine is more than merely mortal; as time will show.” A workshop for graduate students and early career researchers Tuesday 8th December 2015 Mathematics Institute and St Anne’s College, Oxford   The mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), daughter of poet Lord Byron, is celebrated…

  • ‘Hardy and the Scientific Imagination’ Tuesday 2nd June 2015

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    You are warmly invited to join us on Tuesday 2 June, when Professor Angelique Richardson (Exeter) will be addressing our Seminar with her paper entitled: ‘Hardy and the Scientific Imagination’. We begin at 5:30pm in Room G24, Foster Court, University College London, Malet Place, London WC1. Directions to this building can be found here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps Professor Angelique Richardson’s paper will…

  • Romanticism and the South West

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    Registration is now open for a one-day conference on the subject of ‘Romanticism and the South West’, a conference which re-assesses the importance of the South West in Romantic thought and writing. The conference aims to explore the importance of the South West for Romantic writers, with a particular emphasis on the following topics: Ecologically…

  • People-powered science: citizen science in the 19th and 21st centuries, The Royal Society, Thursday 21 May 2015

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    Explore the humble beginnings of the citizen science movement From classifying the cosmos to tracking British bees, citizen science has captivated the imagination of the British public; online platforms such as Zooniverse have over 1 million participants. But, you might be surprised to hear that this isn’t a new thing. Long before the internet put data at…

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