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  • ELINAS Inaugural Conference on Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization

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    ELINAS Inaugural Conference on Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization in Erlangen, Germany, May 29th – June 1st Can physics be poeticized? Is there a specific rhetoric to its language? Physics and literature appear to offer two diametrically opposed ways of viewing and representing the world. Yet in combination they have great potential…

  • BSLS Symposium on Teaching Literature and Science

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    The BSLS has voted to hold an annual one-day symposium in addition to its annual conference. Unlike the conference, the symposium will be on a specific theme each year. The BSLS will make a budget of £500 available to members each year in the first instance to fund the symposium. The theme of each symposium…

  • Literature and Science seminars in Oxford

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    Monday 5 May 2014, 5.15pm Victorian Graduate Seminar: Tatiana Kontou (Oxford Brookes), ‘Florence Marryat’s Kore: Spiritualist and Literary Influences’. LOCATION: History of the Book Room, St Cross Building. Wednesday 7 May 2014, 5pm Astor Visiting Lectures: Professor George Levine, ‘Victorian finance and death: Money in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend’. There will be a drinks reception…

  • Conference on Ageing

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    CALL FOR PAPERS Interdisciplinary Conference 30 and 31 January 2015 University of Bergen (Norway) AGEING: HISTORIES, MYTHOLOGIES, AND TABOOS The Research group “Literature and Science” invites scholars of literature, the arts, and the medical humanities, as well as philosophers, cultural historians, historians of religion, sociologists, and anthropologists to explore the symbolic aspects of ageing and…

  • Alice Jenkins speaking on Euclid at UCL

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    Alice Jenkins, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Glasgow, will be giving a paper entitled “‘Eternal and unchangeable’?: Victorian anti-reception of Euclid” in the UCL Reading and Reception Seminar on May 6 at 5.30 p.m. at G24, Foster Court, Malet Place, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT. Her paper considers Victorian accounts of how to…

  • Modern art, Victorian sculpture and natural history

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    On Thursday evening BSLS Chair John Holmes will be discussing the decorative art of the nineteenth-century Irish stone-carvers James and John O’Shea at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History with the contemporary artist Sean Lynch, whose show A blow by blow account of stonecarving in Oxford inspired by the O’Sheas and their work has…

  • George Levine speaking on Science and Religion

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    George Levine, Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers University, will be speaking on ‘Science and Religion from Herschel to Gould’ at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 29th April at the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, Oxford, and again at 2 p.m. on Wednesday 30th April at the Harborne Lecture Theatre at the University of Reading. Professor Levine is one of…

  • BSLS/JLS Essay Prize Deadline Extended

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    Following a successful annual conference, the British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science would like to announce an extension to the 2014 prize deadline for the best new essay by a postgraduate or an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. The deadline,…

  • George Levine : Astor Visiting Lectureship at the University of Oxford

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    George Levine (Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University) is one of the world’s leading figures in the field of science, literature and culture. His books include Darwin and the Novelists (1988), Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World (2006), Realism, Ethics, and Secularism: Essays in Victorian Literature and Science (2008), and Darwin the Writer…

  • Book Prize winner

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    The Society is delighted to announce that the 2013 BSLS Book Prize goes to Robert Mitchell for Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Congratulations to all four shortlisted authors, and especially to Professor Mitchell on being this year’s winner, for a book of considerable research and erudition…

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