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  • PhD studentships in Literature and Science at University of Westminster

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    The Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster is pleased to offer two studentships to prospective PhD students to begin in September 2015. In the UK Government’s REF 2014 assessment of research activity, English at Westminster was ranked 28th out of 89 departments in Britain, with 79% of its work…

  • Postdoctoral position at University of Liverpool

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    William Noble Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool For more details please click on the link below- http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/research/r-587941/

  • PhD Studentship at the Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent

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    The Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent, offers a fully-funded PhD to work with Dr Rebekah Higgitt.  Literary angles on the following suggested topics are welcome (the final topic is specifically textual in nature): History of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Royal Greenwich Observatory, especially in the 20th century Science and/or…

  • Lecturer in Medical Humanities

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    The University of Bristol invites applications to a full-time permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in Medical Humanities. Candidates who can demonstrate excellence in the teaching and research of Medical Humanities as it intersects with any area or period of English Literature are eligible to apply. For more information please follow this link.

  • Leviathan and the Air Pump: Thirty Years On

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    Friday 1 May, 5:30 to 7:00pm Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW Robert Boyle’s air-pump experiments in 1659 provoked a lively debate over the possibility of a vacuum. The air-pump, a complicated and expensive device, became an emblem of the new experimental science that was promoted by the Royal Society. However, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes…

  • Reading Group on the Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century

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    The next session of the reading group will take place on Monday 20 April at 6.00pm at the Lit and Phil Library, Newcastle upon Tyne. Everyone is welcome, refreshments provided. Dr. Peter Garratt, Durham University, will introduce two readings on: The Science and Art of Atmosphere   Clouds turn the eye upwards towards the indeterminate,…

  • BSLS 2015 Conference Programme

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    The full programme for the BSLS 10th annual conference in Liverpool is now available here BSLS 2015 Programme.   For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website.

  • CFP: Julia Margaret Cameron: A Bicentenary Conference

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    3-5 July 2015, University of Portsmouth    Keynote Speakers: Professor Joanne Lukitsh (Massachusetts College of Art and Design) Professor Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Surrey) Professor Lindsay Smith (University of Sussex)    The 2015 bicentennial anniversary of Julia Margaret Cameron’s birth is a timely opportunity for a reappraisal of the interdisciplinary significance of her work. The…

  • SLSAeu Conference – Extended Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2015

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    SLSAeu conference in Malta, 15-18 June 2015, extended CFP. Please visit www.scale2015.com

  • Romanticism and the South-West ** Extended Deadline**

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    The English department at the University of Bristol invites submissions for a 1-day conference to be held on the 29th of June, 2015, on the subject of ‘Romanticism and the South-West’. The conference aims to explore the importance of the South-West for Romantic writers, with a particular emphasis on the following topics: 1) ecologically aware…

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