Category: News
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‘Frankenstein at 200’, a Public Event in the city of Lincoln
Venue: the Lincoln Drill Hall, Free School Lane, Lincoln. LN2 1EY Date: 31st October 2018 (9.30am-4pm) Keynote speaker: Professor Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia) Ticket price: £7.50 (including a light lunch). Available from http://lncn.eu/frank In celebration of the bi-centenary of the publication of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the University…
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The Fates of Frankenstein: Edinburgh Napier University, 23-24 November 2018
Brighten those dreary nights in November with a visit to Edinburgh and the lively Fates of Frankenstein conference: this is a 2-day conference about Frankenstein’s legacies in popular culture. We are thrilled to be hosting keynote speakers Dr Daniel Cook, University of Dundee, and Professor Catherine Spooner, University of Lancaster. For the full programme and…
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August 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2018 Paul Stephens, The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Bennett Zon, Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture Robert Lanier Reid, Renaissance Psychologies: Spenser and Shakespeare Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, Frode Helland, and Joanne Tompkins, A Global…
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Call for Papers: MLA International Symposium – Deadline: 21 Sep 2018
https://symposium.mla.org/lisbon/remembering-voices-lost/
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 31st August 2018
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…
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July 2018 in BSLS Reviews
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…
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June 2018 in BSLS Reviews
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…
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CFP: ‘The Disease of Caring’: Medical Professionals and Activism from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
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…
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Call for Reviewers – Journal of Literature and Science
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…
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Postdoctoral position available in Fiction Meets Science Research Group, Oldenburg, Germany.
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,…
