Category: News
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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…
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Shortlist for the BSLS Book Prize Announced
The following books have been shortlisted for the BSLS Book Prize for 2017: Melissa Bailes, Questioning Nature: British Women’s Scientific Writing and Literary Originality, 1750-1830 (U of Virginia Press) Mary Fairclough, Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840 (Palgrave Macmillan) Katherine Hayles, Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (U of Chicago Press) Benjamin Morgan, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics…
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Conference on narrative and mental health
Mind Reading: The Role of Narrative in Mental Health 18th-19th June 2018 University of Birmingham Do clinicians and patients speak the same language? How might we bridge the evident gaps in communication? How can we use narrative to foster clinical relationships? Or to care for the carers? KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dame Professor Sue Bailey, Professor Sally…
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BSLS Conference 2018 Programme
A provisional programme for the BSLS annual conference 2018 at Oxford Brookes can be viewed here.
