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  • CFP SLSAeu 2019, Athens, Greece

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    See the full CFP here

  • SLSAeu 2019 cfp

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    The next conference of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, on the theme of SpaceTime, will be held in Athens on 25-18 June 2019. To read the cfp, click below: SLSAeu2019CFP-4

  • Royal Society Symposium on Sleep and Stress

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    Sleep and Stress, Past and Present 7th December 2018 9:00am—5:00pm Kohn Centre, The Royal Society Sleep and Stress Poster A one-day interdisciplinary symposium in the Kohn Centre at the Royal Society, Sleep and Stress, Past and Present brings together expert scientists, medical practitioners, historians and literary critics to discuss the intersections between sleep and stress,…

  • DEADLINE APPROACHING ‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care 1800-1948’

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    University of Nottingham, Humanities Building, Friday 11 January 2019, 10.00 – 16.00. Keynote speaker: Professor Christine Hallett (University of Huddersfield) This one-day workshop seeks to bring together researchers with an interest in the history and representations of healthcare, medicine, nursing, hospitals, and public health in the UK between 1800 and 1948, with a particular focus…

  • CFP: contributors sought for proposed panel on ‘Science in the Literary Garden’ for BSLS 2019 annual conference

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    The garden has long held a significant place in literary discourse, whether the natural garden in receipt books or herbals, for example, or the hypothetical garden, the biblical garden, or the lunar garden occasionally found in the fantastic voyages of the seventeenth century. The garden, too, has taken many forms, whether the cultivated garden, the…

  • BSLS Winter Symposium – Registration Open

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    Registration is now open for the symposium: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsls-winter-symposium-2018-tickets-52160049111 There is also a draft programme on the website.

  • October 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in October 2018   Steven Meyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science Andrew Gaedtke, Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds Matthew Wilson Smith, The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theater Jonathan…

  • CFP: ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference, 4-6 September 2019

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    CALL FOR PAPERS: ASLE-UKI BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2019 4th to 6th September 2019, University of Plymouth The University of Plymouth is delighted to be hosting the 2019 Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland. Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia) David Higgins (University of…

  • Full Moon: A Night of Poetry and Science

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    ***50% discount available to BSLS members***.   An unmissable evening where poetry and science meet and share a stage, a night that will sparkle with readings and short talks, when we will hear the poetry of science and see how the scientific entreprise opens up realms of poetry. Join us on this epic journey of…

  • TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Project between the University of Roehampton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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    Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew’s imperial archive: Cataloguing Economic Botany in the Miscellaneous Reports, 1841-1928 This studentship offers the opportunity to research and study the history, composition and arrangement of a major collection held in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: the…

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