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  • Updated CFP: ‘Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century’

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    The previous call for contributions to a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews entitled ‘Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century’ has been revised; the issue will now appear in 2014.

  • Transforming Objects

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    28-29 May 2012, Northumbria University KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr Sarah Haggarty (Newcastle) and Dr John Holmes (Reading) This two-day conference invites papers that consider the transformation of objects and the transformations effected by objects from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Approaches to this theme are welcomed from established scholars and especially from postgraduate students. Object…

  • Darwin and Gender seminar

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    Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar  Dr Phillipa Hardman Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge on Darwin and Gender 1230-1330, Monday 6 February 2012  Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge  Free entrance – all welcome!

  • Special issue on Victorian Science and Visual Culture

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    Early Popular Visual Culture Themed Issue Now Available: Victorian Science and Visual Culture The latest special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture is now available online on the topic of ‘Victorian Science and Visual Culture’. This new issue contains the following articles: Victorian science and popular visual culture FREE ACCESS Bernard Lightman Virtual reality and…

  • Workshop: Putting the Science in Fiction

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    University of Manchester, UK 9:30-17:00, 25 April 2012 Many people look suspiciously at science in fictional media and may ask themselves: Why don’t the creators of fiction ever talk to real scientists? In fact, those who write novels, craft television scripts, create movies, and produce stage plays do speak with scientists on a regular basis.…

  • BSLS 2012 proposals

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    All those who submitted proposals for the BSLS 2012 conference should have received an email on Wednesday 11 January indicating whether or not their paper was accepted. If you have not, please contact Michael Whitworth on bsls.2012@yahoo.co.uk

  • Biology and Culture

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    BSLS members may be interested to read about the Biology and Culture meeting organised by Angelique Richardson and held at the University of Exeter in September 2011.  The workshop was part of a larger British Academy-funded project on Science and Culture.   One outcome  is a special issue of Critical Quarterly on ‘Essentialism in Science and…

  • Celebrating Science blogspot

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    BSLS members might be interested in the Celebrating Science blogspot on the creative links between literature and science (see in Links too).

  • AHRC funding at the University of Salford

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    The University of Salford has one AHRC doctoral studentship in English available for an October 2012 start. Literature and Science is one of the fields in which they would especially welcome applications. For further details, see here: http://www.salford.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees-and-funding/ahrc-studentships/doctoral-award-in-english

  • Postdocs in Literature and Medicine

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    The University of Edinburgh are advertising for postdocs, including in Literature and  Medicine. Please see the link below: http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.furtherdetails&vacancy_ref=3015150

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