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The summer 2012 round of the BSLS small grants scheme has been won by Professor Laurence Talairach-Vielmas of the University of Toulouse.  The grant will support Exhibiting Human Remains (Hunterian Museum, 4 June 2013), the third in a series of conferences in France and Britain on ‘History and Cultural Representations of Human Remains.’  The cfp…

Two exploratory projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Science in Culture initiative have recently held workshops and launched new websites offering ideas and opportunities for collaborations between literary scholars and biologists. Here are links to their websites: Beyond the Gene (University of Southampton) Cultivating Common Ground: Biology and the Humanities…

Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Material Culture is a one-day symposium to be held at Oxford Brookes on Saturday 22nd September 2012. It will reflect on, and respond to, the current materialist turn in Victorian Studies and Thing Theory. Nineteenth-century literature is crowded with objects, but traditional methods of interpretation have directed us to focus on…

We are pleased to inform you of the publication of a special issue of L’Esprit Créateur (Summer 2012, Vol. 52, No. 2) guest edited by Louise Lyle and Douglas Morrey, on ‘Genetics and French Culture’. Table of Contents below: 1 Louise Lyle — Introduction: Genetics and French Culture 10 Valérie Narayana — Zola et le…

Three conferences on the history and cultural representations of human remains are taking place in France and the United Kingdom.  The three interdisciplinary conferences will examine the relationship between anatomical knowledge and practice and their cultural representations so as to offer an overview of the cultural reception of the exhibition of human remains. Medical Museums…

UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN Senior Lecturer in English Literature – (Ref: FBS110) £38,140 – £44,166 per annum Applications are invited for a Senior Lectureship in English Literature in either the early modern period and/or the long eighteenth century. The research specialism is open but applications from those with expertise in Literature and Science or Welsh Writing…

Guest speakers: Professor Jennifer Richards and Dr Anne Whitehead (Newcastle University), Professor David Knight (Durham University), and Dr Peter Garratt (Northumbria University) The North East Postgraduate Research Group for the Long Nineteenth Century (NENC) invites proposals for a one-day postgraduate symposium held on Wednesday 12 September 2012. The theme of the symposium reflects two parallel…

Beckett and Brain Science One day Symposium Birkbeck, University of London Friday 22 June 2012 This AHRC-funded project brings together literary scholars, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, cognitive neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, and philosophers to explore the ways in which historical and contemporary models of the brain and mind can contribute to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s work. The project…

 RECONNECTING SLOANE: TEXTS, IMAGES, OBJECTS Applications are invited for TWO AHRC Collaborative PhD studentships, commencing in autumn 2012, on the theme of Reconnecting Sloane: Texts, Images, Objects 1.       Collecting and Correspondence: Sloane’s Papers and Scientific Networks (Supervised by Dr Arnold Hunt, British Library and Dr Anne Goldgar, King’s College London) 2.       Putting Nature in a…