Category: News
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Scientific Polyphony: How Scientific Narratives Configure Many ‘Voices’
Workshop organised by Dr Kim M. Hajek and Prof. Mary S. Morgan 3 June 2019, London School of Economics and Political Science In the history of science, especially of the human and observational sciences, it has often been the case that knowledge-making activities drew upon many ‘voices’—accounts of a storm given by different observers; patient…
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Oxford Science, Culture and Medicine Seminars
The final series of Oxford’s excellent Science, Culture and Medicine seminars is coming up this term. For details of the talks, click below.
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Winter Symposium: A Call for Organisers
Expressions of interest are invited by the 1st of June for the BSLS Winter Symposium in 2019. As members will recall, this is a postgraduate and early career researcher-led event and presents a great opportunity to run a successful event at this stage in your career (with help and support from the BSLS Committee throughout…
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CFP ALLUVIUM JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE JUNE 2019: Global Contemporary: Ecologies of Gender and Class within the Combined and Uneven Anthropocene
C Alluvium is an online journal dedicated to twenty-first-century writing, affiliated with BACLS (British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies) as its Graduate-run journal. It publishes short (2-2500 word) academic articles on fiction as well as twenty-first-century approaches to the literary canon by researchers working at PG, ECR, Lecturer and Senior level. Alluvium encourages contributors to…
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Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health
Conference on 17th May, 2019 at St Anne’s College, Oxford Can literature and narrative improve the lives of young people? We will bring together literary and humanities scholars with service users and practitioners in the field of child and adolescent mental health. Together we will ask questions about the role of literature as a point…
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TAPRA Performance and Science Events, 8 May and 4-6 September 2019
CFP Performance and Science working group at TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) 4 – 6 September Deadline: Monday 8 April 2019 We issue two calls for this year’s TAPRA conference: an open call inviting proposals that might help us map the vast terrain encompassed by ‘performance and science’; and a themed call for a joint session with the Bodies…
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PhD position: ‘Narrating Science as World-making Activity: Sea-level Change in Singapore’
Please see link above for further details.
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February 2019 in BSLS Reviews
Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence Stella Pratt-Smith, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science Sylvain Belluc, and Valérie Bénéjam, eds, Cognitive Joyce Mark Axelrod-Sokolov, Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles Peter Barry and William Welstead, eds, Extending Ecocriticism:…
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BSLS annual book prize – shortlist announced
The BSLS is delighted to announce this year’s shortlist for its annual book prize, celebrating the best work in literature and science published in 2018: Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence (Oxford University Press) John Holmes, The Pre-Raphaelites and Science (Yale University Press)…
