Category: News
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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…
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New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course 19 March 2018
University of Leeds Registration is now open for “New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course”. This free two-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Leeds, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will bring together speakers in the humanities and social sciences from Europe, America, and Asia to share new perspectives on…
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BSLS Small Grants Scheme and Postgraduate Conference Fund
Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st March 2018.
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Oxford Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars
There will be three seminars in the Oxford University Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series this term. For details, click below: Oxford Seminars Spring 2018
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December 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in December 2017 Rachel Ablow, Victorian Pain David Thorley, Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain Lena Wånggren, Gender, Technology and the New Woman Chris Danta and Helen Groth (eds), Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and Science of the Mind Megan Coyer, Literature, Medicine and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press:…
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Call for Applications: McCain Postdoctoral Fellow in Romantic & Regency Literature (Winter 2018)
(Subject to Budgetary Approval) The Department of English Literatures at Mount Allison University invites applications for a twelve-month position as the McCain Postdoctoral Fellow in Romantic & Regency Literature, with additional expertise in literature and the environment, eco-criticism, eco-poetics, or a related field. Candidates are required to have a PhD in English Literature and demonstrated…
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Vacancies at the University of Waterloo, Canada
Assistant Professor in Science, Culture, and Writing Department of English Language and Literature The Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a probationary position in Science, Culture, and Writing at the rank of Assistant Professor, with a preferred start date of…
