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  • 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…

  • ‘Men and Beasts’, Seminar with Maureen Duffy, 24th October.

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    On Wednesday 24th October, Maureen Duffy, D.Litt, King’s Fellow, author and pioneering activist will read several pieces from her own work, followed by a Q and A session. All welcome. 6-7:30pm, S8.08, Department of History, Strand Campus, King’s College London. Further information can be found at – https://animalhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ or by emailing animalhistorygroup@gmail.com No need to book,…

  • EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP: BSLS Winter Symposium 2018: Environments of Literature and Science

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    Date: Saturday 24th November 2018 (10:00 – 18:00) Location: Cardiff University Organisers: Joan Passey (Exeter, jp374@exeter.ac.uk), Louise Benson-James (Bristol, louise.bensonjames@bristol.ac.uk), Jim Scown (Cardiff, scownj@cardiff.ac.uk) Keynote: ‘Biggish Data: Friedrich Engels, Material Ecology, and Victorian Data’ by John Parham, University of Worcester The Environmental Humanities have gained momentum relatively recently, contributing to developing theories of the Anthropocene, responding to rapid changes in climate, and…

  • CFP: The British Society for Literature and Science Fourteenth Annual Conference, Royal Holloway (University of London), 4-6 April 2019

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    CALL FOR PAPERS The fourteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Thursday 4 April until Saturday 6 April 2019. Keynote speakers will include Professor Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway) and Professor Angelique Richardson (Exeter). The BSLS invites proposals for 20-minute papers, panels…

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