Category: News
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Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities 2018
We are looking forward to over 120 presentations at The Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities conference at the University of Kent. The conference schedule and schedule of panel presentations are now online at our website: https://research.kent.ac.uk/cognitivefutures2018/schedule-programme/ Registration Rates (3-day attendance, refreshments and lunch included): Full rate Delegates: £230.00 Students: £170.00 …
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May 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in May 2018 Simon Smith, Jacqueline Watson and Amy Kenny (eds), The Senses in Early Modern England 1558-1660 Claire Hanson, Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin (eds), Katherine Mansfield and Psychology James Whitehead, Madness and the Romantic Poet: A Critical History Chris…
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BSLS Winter Symposium in 2018 – Call for expressions of interest
Expressions of interest are invited by 1 June in respect of the BSLS Winter Symposium in 2018. As members will remember, this is now a postgraduate and early career researcher-led event and presents a great opportunity to run a successful event at this stage in your career (with help and support from the BSLS Committee…
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April 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in April 2018 Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture Matthew Griffiths, The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World Michael R. Finn, Figures from the Pre-Freudian Unconscious from Flaubert to Proust Rebecca…
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Registration open for Mathematics + Modern Literature Conference, 3-4th May, University of Manchester
Registration for the conference is now open and that it closes on the 1st May. The link to registration is here: https://mathematicsandmodernliterature.wordpress.com/register/ There is also a public event on the 3rd May inspired by the conference which is free of charge. It is called ‘In Conversation with Emily Howard: Exploring Mathematics, Music and Literature’, and includes a live…
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Experimental Forms: Writing, Science and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
Conference, Friday 8 June, Birkbeck, London Experiment can describe both strict testing and speculative ‘trying out’, both proof and exploration; it can also refer to the process, the object, and the material apparatus of these activities. Experiment can have connotations of system or method, as is often prominent in the scientific context, or uncontrolled rule-breaking.…
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Science in Public – Conference CFP
The 2018 Science in Public conference is taking place at Cardiff University on December 17-19th, with the theme of Intersecting Science. The CFP is now open, and more details can also be found on the conference website at https://www.sip2018cardiff.com: Abstract Submission We are now accepting abstracts for SiP2018. Abstracts for regular papers should be no more than…
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March 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in March 2018 Robert T Tally Jr (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space Lorna Hutson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 Amanda Jo Goldstein, Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life Molly Farrell,…
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Iggy McGovern in conversation with Nessa O’Mahony
Physicist and poet Iggy McGovern, previously mentioned on the Arts Blog for his work on William Rowan Hamilton, is interviewed by poet Nessa O’Mahony for The Attic Sessions.
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PhD position – Fiction Meets Science
The Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, invites applications for the three-year position of a Research Fellow in English / Anglophone Literatures commencing on June 1, 2018 or as soon as possible thereafter. The working hours comprise 25.87 hours a week and the salary is based on the German public service…
