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University of Bristol, 6-8 April 2017 ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACTS! The twelfth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Bristol, from Thursday 6 April until Saturday 8 April 2017. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Professor Robert Mitchell (Duke…

Merveilles Électriques Invention littéraire, vulgarisation et circulation médiatique Colloque internationalOrganisé par Claire Barel-Moisan (CNRS. ENS-Lyon. UMR IHRIM), Delphine Gleizes (Université Lyon 2. UMR IHRIM) Les XVIIIe et XIXe siècles constituent une période essentielle dans l’histoire des découvertes sur le magnétisme et l’électricité. Elle se caractérise par l’élaboration d’hypothèses scientifiques viables, par la mise en place de procédures expérimentales à même de…

BSLS Winter Symposium The Politics of Literature and Science   Queen’s Building, University of Exeter, NOW, DUE TO DEMAND, ON Saturday, 3 December, 2016 Organiser: Corinna Wagner & James Green (Department of English, Exeter University)   This BSLS Winter Symposium will explore relationships between politics, science, medicine, literature and visual culture. We will take ‘politics’ in…

  The Politics of Literature and Science Queen’s Building, University of Exeter, Saturday, 12 November, 2016 Organiser: Corinna Wagner (Department of English, Exeter University)   This BSLS Winter Symposium will explore relationships between politics, science, medicine, literature and visual culture. We will take ‘politics’ in both its broadest sense—considering for example, the politics of the…

In early July of 2017 the city of Newcastle will host a future of the discipline of English conference called Shared Futures. As I announced at the BSLS conference in April, we have been invited to put together a panel to showcase the work of the Society. The committee feels that the very best way…

EMPATHIES 2017 www.empathies2017.com Jean Decety | Jackie Leach Scully | Jesse Prinz | Denise Riley Call for Participation – Deadline: 10.12.2016 For a number of years now, empathy has been a central topic of public and academic debate and research. It is the subject of artistic, moral, and psychological reflections and commands interest from the…

Special issue launch Shakespeare: explorations over time and across disciplines  Palgrave Communications is a multi-disciplinary open access journal publishing peer-reviewed original research across all areas of the humanities & the social sciences. To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Palgrave Communications is pleased to announce the launch of a special issue on Shakespeare studies. This special issue presents…

The University of Westminster’s department of English is offering a fully-funded 3 year Full-Time PhD studentship on the topic of performing science in the nineteenth century. Full details can be found at https://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/research-areas/social-sciences-and-humanities/research-studentships/performing-science-in-the-19th-century

BSLS member Sam George at Hertfordshire been involved in a collaboration with New York Botanical Gardens for an exhibition on Poetic Botany in the Eighteenth Century. The exhibition can now be seen live at http://www.nybg.org/poetic-botany/.

THE STATE OF THE UNIONS  What are the relations between literature, science and the arts within our field today? This special double issue marks a unique collaboration between the Journal of Literature and Science and Configurations. Across two years – 2017 in the JLS and 2018 in Configurations – we aim to enable scholars of…