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CFP | Theatre About Science 2027 Every odd year, the community of people working in and interested in the connections between theatre and the sciences gather in Coimbra, Portugal, to share and learn about what they have been doing. It’s a very specific thematic niche that brings together a diverse group of participants, including theatre…

Byung-Chul Han and Contemporary Culture Online symposium · 19 March 2027 https://byungchulhanstudies.org/call-for-papers/ Deadline for abstracts: Monday 18 January 2027 Byung-Chul Han’s slim volumes of philosophy now circulate widely in English, with more than twenty books translated since 2015. These books offer a cosmopolitan account of a digital age in which technology allows power to seduce…

Discarded Biological Ideas in Scientific Fiction, c. 1825-c. 1925: From Poe to Gernsback   Edited by Edward Guimont (Bristol Community College) and Patrick Prominski (Grand Rapids Community College)   The period of the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century was one in which the human understanding of life in all its forms—microscopic and…

Whitley, Richard and Jochen Gläser (2026). Innovations in the Modern Arts and Sciences: Explaining Lasting Change in Novelty- Driven Cultural Fields. Bristol University Press,https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/innovations-in-the-modern-arts-and-sciences [bristoluniversitypress.co.uk]. 2026. DOI: 10.51952/9781529239393. The modern arts and sciences are fields of cultural production in which the creation of original works has become an everyday activity generating a large variety of novel outputs. However,…

Special Issue Call for Papers Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies Guest editors: Simona Bartolotta, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen; Adele Guyton, UCLouvain; Ciarán Kavanagh, Ghent University Neohelicon invites article submissions for a special issue on “Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies.” The relationship between aesthetic form and its instrumental functions…

CALL FOR PAPERS Theatre About Science: Knowledge, Engagement and Action Co-editors: Mário Montenegro, Fernando Matos Oliveira, Clara Barata, Sara Varela Amaral, Ana Santos Carvalho, Catarina Seabra, João Gaspar, Silvia P. Carballo, Francisca Moreira Following on from the Theatre About Science International Conference 2025, and as in previous years, we are opening a call for papers for…

CALL FOR REVIEWERS: PUBLISH WITH US Journal of Literature and Science The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is looking for reviewers to review various articles published in the last year to 18 months in the field of literature and science. Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for…

Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of English is seeking to appoint an outstanding Research Associate to support the project: The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley, edited by Professor Sharon Ruston and Professor Daniel Cook and scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press between 2028 and 2035. This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career researcher with…

Posting on behalf of Dr Francesca Mackenney Research Associate: ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 – Present’ – (9221) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers Manchester Metropolitan University is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral Research Associate in History (full-time, 3 years) to join the team for Dr Francesca Mackenney’s Leverhulme-funded project, ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 -…

The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fresh frameworks of thinking for the humanities and social sciences, and works to develop the modern, integrated, and broadly interdisciplinary approach that is…