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  • BSLS Executive Committee elections

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    BSLS Executive Committee posts Several posts on the BSLS Executive Committee will either be vacant or up for renewal this April 2012: Chair, Treasurer, IT Officer, Membership Secretary, and two Members at Large. If you are interested in any of these posts and have questions please do contact us, or any member of the committee.…

  • BSLS 2012: Online booking now open

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    Online booking for the BSLS 2012 conference is now available here: http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=1086&modid=1&compid=1 Please note that if you wish to book for the conference dinner at Merton, you must do so by Friday 30th March. (Because of the Easter break, the college needs notice of numbers far in advance.) Please note also that the price of…

  • Masters and PhD funding, University of Aberdeen

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    A number of financial awards for study towards the Mlitt and PhD are available at The University of Aberdeen under the Research Project Awards Scheme (RPAS) under the umbrella theme ‘The Emergence of a Scientific Culture’. For further details, see here: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/chpstm/prospective/costs-and-financial-support/ The closing date for applications is Friday 6 April 2012.

  • Lecture, Friday 23 March: Fossils, monsters, and the Sydenham Crystal Palace dinosaurs

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    Dr Claire McKechnie will speak on ‘Fossils, monsters, and the Sydenham Crystal Palace dinosaurs: imagining extinct animals in Victorian science’ on Friday 23rd March, 6-7pm, in the University of St Andrews, Bute Medical Building, Lecture Theatre D.  The lecture will be followed by a reception at the Bell Pettigrew Museum.

  • BSLS Small Grants Scheme, Spring 2012

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    Applications are invited for BSLS small grants to advance and/or promote the study of literature and science. Examples of things for which the awards might be used are expenses for visiting speakers, seminar series and debates, and other funding to stage events on literature and science. The scheme is not intended for individual conference travel,…

  • Research Fellowship in Biology and the Humanities

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    The University of Reading is recruiting a Research Fellow in Biology and the Humanities for four months starting from May. Here are the details of the job. Job title : Research Fellow Job reference : RS12015 Application closing date : 11/04/2012 Location : Whiteknights Campus Salary : Grade 6 £27,578 to £30,122 pro-rata, per annum…

  • Cognitive Futures in the Humanities Symposium

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    Cognitive Futures in the Humanities: A One-Day Symposium funded by  the AHRC Saturday 28 April 2012 Northumbria University,  Newcastle How have the arts and humanities responded to the cognitive science  revolution? How far have we evolved new knowledge and models in areas such as  literary, aesthetic and historical analysis in connection with cognitive  paradigms? What…

  • BSLS Book Prize for 2011 Shortlist

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    The shortlist for the BSLS prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2011 is as follows: Frederique Ait-Touati, Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century (U of Chicago P) Tamara Ketabgian, The Lives of the Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture…

  • Evolution in the Nineteenth Century

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    Saturday 17th March at St John’s College Library, Cambridge A day of special events looking at evolution in the nineteenth century. All events are free and all are welcome. ‘Evolution: The Race to Understanding’ (Old Library, 11am-5pm) – This special exhibition charts the development of evolutionary thought through the nineteenth century using a range of…

  • Darwin and Human Nature, Thursday 19 April – Friday 20 April 2012

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    CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), Alison Richard Building, 
7 West Road, Cambridge A series of intersecting boundaries have defined the human from the mid-19th century to the present: human/animal, civilized/savage, woman/man, mind/machine, and nature/culture. This conference will examine how different disciplines have constructed and contested these boundaries, and will…

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