Author: bsls

  • The Value of the Literary and Historical Study of Biology to Biologists – Scoping Study published

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    What in practice can science learn from the humanities? That is the question that a team of biologists, literary critics and historians at the University of Reading set out to answer in an AHRC-funded project that has generated some new insights into the relationship between the two fields. A workshop, entitled ‘Cultivating Common Ground: Biology and the Humanities’,…

  • British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2013 – Call for Papers

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    The British Society for Literature and Science invites proposals for papers and panels to be delivered at its eighth annual conference to be held in Cardiff, 11-13 April 2013, by Cardiff University and the University of Glamorgan. The BSLS Conference does not have a theme (as it its usual practise) but especially welcomes proposals on the…

  • BSLS and JLS early career essay prize

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    The British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science would like to announce a prize 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 Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal.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 between 6,000 and 8,000…

  • Poetry of science event in Oxford

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    On Thursday 25th October at 7 pm John Holmes from the University of Reading and the poet Lesley Saunders will be reading and discussing poetry and science at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. Admission is free, and all are welcome. For more details, see the poster below, or go to www.mhs.ox.ac.uk.

  • London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group

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    London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group Vision and Images 6-8pm, 22nd January 2013 The Science Museum’s Dana Centre 165 Queen’s Gate South Kensington London Please see http://londoninterdisciplinarydiscussiongroup.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/vision-and-images-22nd-january-2013/ for full details of this event and further information on all the speakers.   At this meeting our speakers Helen Barron, Matteo Farinella, Ludmilla Jordanova, Toby Ward and Lucy Wilford…

  • Post in Victorian Literature and Science

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    The University of South Carolina has recently advertised for an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Victorian Literature and Science. Click here for the application details. The deadline is November 2, 2012.

  • Royal Society History of Science Friday lunchtime lectures

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    The following lectures in our Autumn 2012 programme may be of interest to BSLS members: Friday 28 September, 1pm Prof. Sharon Ruston Natural History and the Rights of Woman During the two-year period of the composition and publication of her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of Mary Shelley and early advocate…

  • The Brain and the Mind

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    Lisa Appignanesi and Lara Feigel are organising a new series of six panel discussions on behalf of the Centre for the Humanities and Health and the English department at King’s College London.  The talks will take place from October 2012-March 2013. The series is called The Brain and the Mind and brings together neuroscientists with writers, artists, philosophers, psychiatrists,…

  • Clare Maniez et al (eds.) Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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    Claire Maniez, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak and Frédéric Dumas (eds.), Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries: From Henry Adams to John Adams (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). Hb xv + 197 pp. £39.99 ISBN 9781443835190 The fourth essay in this collection, by Noëlle Batt, argues for an analogy between the challenge faced…

  • Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize

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    The Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies program at University of California, Riverside welcomes nominations for the SFTS book award. This prize honors an outstanding scholarly monograph that explores the intersection between popular culture and the sciences. We welcome submissions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, the history of science, media studies, and…

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