Category: News
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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…
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Call for reviewers
The BSLS Reviews site, <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/>, which publishes c 60 reviews a year, is looking for suitably qualified reviewers for some books that have come in recently, listed on <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/currently-seeking-reviewers/>. Reviews are c 1000w, and are generally due within three months. If you are interested, please contact the Reviews Editor, Gavin Budge, on <G.Budge@herts.ac.uk>, with some…
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COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on SCIENCE & LITERATURE 2-4 July 2018 Paris, France
First call for papers Following the successful two International Conferences on Science and Literature which took place in Athens and Poellau this Conference is the third to be organized under the aegis of the Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST. The third International Conference will be co-organized by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie -…
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November 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in November 2017 Michael Lundblad (ed.), Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human Maureen Tuthill, Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine Paul Budra and Clifford Werier (eds), Shakespeare and Consciousness Michael Burke and Emily…
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CFP: BSLS 2018 at Oxford Brookes
CALL FOR PAPERS The thirteenth annual conference of the British Society of Literature & Science will take place at Oxford Brookes University, from Thursday 5 April until Saturday 7 April 2018. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Professor Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University). The BSLS invites proposals for 20-minute…
