Category: News
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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.
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DARWIN’S PLOTS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
To mark the 35th anniversary of the publication of Professor Dame Gillian Beer’s ground-breaking study of the relations between science and literature, the British Society for Literature and Science is sponsoring an afternoon’s discussion with Gillian Beer, the BSLS President, at the Natural History Museum in Oxford on Saturday April 7th. Venue: Lecture Theatre,…
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BSLS 2018 Conference Registration now open
Registration is now open for the British Society of Literature & Science at Oxford Brookes, 5-7 April 2018. Registration will remain open until Monday 26th March. Please make sure you select the right option – there are two booking sites – one for postgraduate students/unwaged and the other the full standard option for those of us…
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February 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in February 2018 Melissa Bailes, Questioning Nature. British Women’s Scientific Writing & Literary Originality 1750-1830 David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach (eds), Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity Leif Weatherby, Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx Kenneth Asher,…
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January 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in January 2018 Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge, and the Spectacle of Invisibility Anna Katharina Schaffner, Exhaustion: A History Chad Luck, The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession A David Redish, The…
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PERSONIFICATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES An interdisciplinary conference at Durham University September 17-19, 2018
***EXTENDED DEADLINE FEBRUARY 23, 2018*** Humans have a flair for attributing intentions, traits, agency, emotions and mental states to beings or things – either real or imagined. Whether anthropomorphising natural or abstract shapes, playing with imaginary companions, (re) constructing fictional characters and dialoguing with gods or hallucinatory presences, the attribution of an agentive mentality…
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Elections to BSLS Executive Committee Posts – consider standing!
BSLS Executive Committee Positions Six positions on the BSLS Executive Committee will be either vacant or up for renewal in April: Chair, Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Book Reviews Officer, Member at Large, and Early Career Member at Large. Present incumbents in two of the positions (Treasurer & Early Career Member at Large) are seeking to continue…
