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  • Post Doc Opportunity: Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris)

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    Applications are invited for a two-year FT post doctoral position at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, to research the history of the geology collections at museum, using the archives, libraries, and collections. The position is part of the larger PEPR ‘Origins’ project. Application deadline: 16 December 2024.

  • CFP: Fat Fictions (BSLS Winter Symposium, 25 January 2025)

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    British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 24/25: ‘Fat Fictions’ University of Strathclyde   ‘Fat Fictions’ is a free one-day digital symposium hosted by the British Society for Literature and Science and the University of Strathclyde. The symposium will take place on Saturday 25th January 2025. Participation is encouraged from PGRs and ECRs. Abstracts…

  • CFP Theatre About Science

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    Proposals are invited for the 3rd International Conference Theatre about Science, which will take place in Coimbra, on 23-25 October 2025. Please visit the conference website https://theatreaboutscience.com

  • Fyfe, Aileen and Kidd, Colin (eds), Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914

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    Aileen Fyfe and Colin Kidd (eds), Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023) xii + 273 pp. £85.00 Hb. £24.99 Pb. £24.99 Ebook. ISBN: 9781474493031 David Hume, Adam Smith, Joseph Black, Dugald Stewart, Adam Ferguson, John Leslie, James Hutton, William Cullen, James Watt. These very prominent and influential philosophers, economists,…

  • CFP: Literature and Science in the Public Sphere (deadline 31 March 2025)

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    Public Humanities is a new international open-access, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of humanities scholarship and public life. The journal invites proposals for themed issues that pose urgent questions on contemporary public issues that require rigorous and relevant humanities knowledge. The journal invites submissions for the upcoming themed Issue Literature and Science in the Public…

  • CFP: Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (Exeter, 2-4 June 2025)

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    Call for papers Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges University of Exeter, UK , 2-4 June 2025 The Cultures of Philosophy project at the University of Exeter in the UK invites proposals for their first conference, ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges’. Confirmed speakers: Cassie…

  • October 8th is Ada Lovelace Day at the Royal Institution

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    Ada Lovelace Day Live is back! The Royal Institution’s annual ‘science cabaret’ returns with a fantastic line-up of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), who will share their experiences, insights and expertise. You can join live in the Ri Theatre, or online, to explore leading-edge research covering many and varied scientific specialities, from…

  • 2024 Essay Prize Competition

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    The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science are pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 competition for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. They should be approx.…

  • Call for Organisers: BSLS Winter Symposium 2024/25

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    The British Society for Literature and Science seeks organisers for its annual Winter Symposium. Proposals are invited from PGRs and ECRs for a one-day online event on a discrete theme to take place in or around January 2025. Proposals due by 25 October 2024. Previous themes have included: Queer Ecologies (2023) The Subterranean Anthropocene (2022)…

  • British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2025, Lancaster

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    The twentieth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Lancaster University, on 10th – 12th April 2025 in person. The conference programme is available here. Abstracts and speaker biographies are available here. Keynote talks will be given by: Dr Kanta Dihal (Imperial College London), Sydney Padua (Buckinghamshire New…

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