Author: Peter Middleton

  • Nominations for Executive Committee Posts

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    Two posts on the BSLS Executive Committee will become vacant this April 2016: Secretary (Peter Middleton is standing down), and International Officer (Folkert Degenring is standing down). If you are interested in taking on either of these posts or have questions about them, please do contact me, or any member of the committee. The sections…

  • J.B. Priestley Society Annual Lecture 2015 – ‘J. B. Priestley, Dreams and Time’

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    Anthony Peake and Katy Price will be giving lectures on ‘J. B. Priestley, Dreams and Time at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London, between 2 – 4pm on Saturday 31 October. To register and book a free place visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jb-priestley-society-annual-lecture-2015. The lectures are free and open to the public as well as…

  • ESSE 2016 – Call for papers – Panel on literature & medical discourse in 20th & 21st centuries

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    ESSE 2016, Galway, 22nd – 26th August Further details of ESSE at http://www.esse2016.org/ CFP: In her 1930 essay ‘On Being Ill’ Woolf noted how “strange” it was “that illness ha[d] not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.” Does  Woolf’s comment still hold? A number of scholars…

  • Walpert, Bryan, Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry

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    Bryan Walpert, Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2011), 220pp.  $141. ISBN 978-0415893348 Despite the rapid expansion of scientific research after the second world war into every corner of the world, animal, vegetable, mineral and human, studies of the impact of this growing scientific control of knowledge on poetry remain scarce. This is…

  • Miller, Sean, Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary

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    Sean Miller, Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2013), 256pp. $50. ISBN 978-0-472-11866-3.   O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht gibt. Sie wußtens nicht und habens jeden Falls – sein Wandeln, seine Haltung, seinen Hals, bis in des stillen Blickes…

  • BSLS Small Grant Scheme 2015

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    Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £400 to promote the study of literature and science. We are open to all sorts of proposals other than personal conference expenses. Examples of activities for which the awards might be used are expenses for a visiting speaker, a seminar series or a symposium. Applications…

  • 2015 BSLS Symposium – Call for Proposals

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    BSLS members are invited to send in proposals to host the second BSLS one-day symposium in November or December 2015. At the AGM, the BSLS membership voted again to support, in addition to the annual conference, a one-day symposium in November or December 2015 on any theme related to the recent conference or the research…

  • BSLS Executive Committee 2015 – 2016

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    At the 2015 AGM several members of the Executive Committee came to the end of their tenure, and new members were elected. This is the membership of the Executive Committee for 2015-2016. Chair: Martin Willis (University of Westminster) – M.Willis@westminster.ac.uk Secretary: Peter Middleton (University of Southampton) – p.middleton@soton.ac.uk Treasurer: Michael Whitworth (Merton College, University of…

  • BSLS Executive Committee Postitions

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    Several positions on the BSLS Executive Committee will be either vacant or up for renewal this April 2015: Chair, Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Book Reviews Officer*, Member at Large and a new role of Member at Large – for a postgraduate or early career researcher without a permanent post*. If you are interested in any of…

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