Category: News

  • Literature and Science Seminars at Trento

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  • Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health

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    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…

  • TAPRA Performance and Science Events, 8 May and 4-6 September 2019

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    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…

  • PhD position: ‘Narrating Science as World-making Activity: Sea-level Change in Singapore’

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    Please see link above for further details.

  • February 2019 in BSLS Reviews

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    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:…

  • BSLS annual book prize – shortlist announced

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    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)…

  • Registration for 2019 BSLS annual conference at Royal Holloway, 4-6 April

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    The Royal Holloway Online Shop for this year’s BSLS annual conference is open to all until 5pm (GMT) THIS FRIDAY 8th March: https://onlinestore.rhul.ac.uk/product-catalogue/events-and-conferences/department-of-english/bsls-annual-conference The four main options distinguish between residential and non-residential registration for the waged and the unwaged.  Choose one of these options. The fifth option concerns the conference dinner. Any problems with the online…

  • BAVS CONFERENCE 2019: VICTORIAN RENEWALS.

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    SCVS is delighted to be co-hosting the British Association of Victorian Studies 2019 conference at the University of Dundee, 28-30 August 2019, on the theme ‘Victorian Renewals.’ The CFP has now been released (PDF below), and we are accepting paper proposals for a deadline of 1 March 2019. Confirmed keynote speakers include Prof Jo McDonagh, University of Chicago; Prof Heather Shore,…

  • Children’s Literature and Science

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    A half day conference on Children’s Literature and Science at Edinburgh Napier University, 22 February 2019. To attend please contact em.alder@napier.ac.uk

  • CFP: 14TH FORUM IN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE HISTORY

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    5 July 2019, 10:00–19:00 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin The Institute for German and Dutch Philology and Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of the Free University of Berlin, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, invite early career scholars to take part in the…

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