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  • SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 31st August 2018

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    For those intending to submit an entry for this year’s essay prize, the JLS website is currently unavailable for technical reasons and is unlikely to be back online before the 31st August deadline. If you would like to view sample essays which have won the prize in previous years you may do so through the following…

  • July 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in July 2018   Peter J. Bowler, A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov Debra Hawhee, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation D. Harlan Wilson, J.G. Ballard Ursula K. Heise, Imagining Extinction: The…

  • June 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in June 2018   Naomi Rokotnitz, Trusting Performance: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama Heather Tilley, Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing Lana Lin, Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer Clare Brant, Balloon…

  • CFP: ‘The Disease of Caring’: Medical Professionals and Activism from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

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    Friday 26 October 2018 School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London Supported by the Birkbeck/Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund and the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies Keynote speaker: Dr Anne Hanley (Birkbeck) In In Darkest London (1891), Margaret Harkness’s popular novel about activism to alleviate poverty conditions in late nineteenth-century London, a doctor practising…

  • Call for Reviewers – Journal of Literature and Science

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    The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is once again looking for reviewers to review various articles in the field of literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for review. The list is by no means definitive; there’s…

  • Postdoctoral position available in Fiction Meets Science Research Group, Oldenburg, Germany.

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    The Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, invites applications for a three-year position commencing on September 1, 2018 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salaries are based on the German public service pay scale 13 TV-L. The position can be adapted for doctoral (completion of Ph.D.) or postdoctoral work,…

  • Call for Reviewers

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    Call for Reviewers The BSLS Reviews site, <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/>, which publishes c 120 reviews a year, is looking for suitably qualified reviewers for some books that have come in recently, listed on <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/currently-seeking-reviewers/>. Reviews are c 1000w, and are generally due within three months. If you are interested, please contact the acting Reviews Editor, Gavin Budge,…

  • Change of Air: Atmosphere, Health, and Locality in the Romantic Era, 1760-1840

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    Change of Air: Atmosphere, Health, and Locality in the Romantic Era, 1760-1840 14th September 2018 University of Oxford, Radcliffe Humanities Building, 3rd Floor Seminar Room. The pursuit of a ‘change of air’, and its supposed effects on mental and physical health, is one of the most recognisable forms of environmental awareness in the long eighteenth…

  • BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 31st August 2018

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    Following the success of the JLS/BSLS essay prize in previous years, The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science would like to announce the 2018 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by…

  • PhD Studentships at the University of Leuven

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    The MDRN research lab at the University of Leuven (Belgium) is launching a new research programme on “Literary Knowledge, 1890-1950: Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe”. Six competitive, full-time doctoral scholarships will be awarded within this programme supervised by Sascha Bru. A call for applications can be found on: http://mdrn.be/news/call-applications-mdrn-award-6-doctoral-scholarships The deadline for applying is…

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