Category: News
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Posts Available for Assistant Editors for BSLS Book Reviews
Assistant review editors are wanted to join an expanded reviews team for BSLS Reviews, the reviews section of the British Society for Literature and Science website, <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/> We aim at comprehensive coverage of the literature and science field, and related areas, with reviews published within ten months of book publication date, and updates on at…
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Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities
CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 5 2018 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities 2018 University of Kent, 1-4 July Keynote Speakers Maaike Bleeker, Utrecht University Margrethe Bruun Vaage, University of Kent Eric Clarke, Oxford University Amy Cook, Stony Brook University Organisers: Melissa Trimingham and Nicola Shaughnessy, in association with the Centre for Cognition, Kinaesthetics…
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Poetry and Neuroscience event in Oxford
Helen Mort and Jason Taylor will be hosting an evening event of poetry and neuroscience at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on 2nd December. Click below for details: Oxford University Museum Poetry Event
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Potential Panels for BSLS 2018
Dr Emily Alder (Napier University) is in the process of putting together two panels for BSLS 2018 and invites proposals for either of the following topics: 1. Gothic and science (fairly broadly, to promote BSLS/ International Gothic Association links – if you are like me both a BSLS and IGA member it would be particularly good…
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Thomas Hardy, Victorian Studies, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies – fully-funded studentship
The studentship is one of four Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs) offered this year by the SWW Consortium. Successful students will take up their awards in September 2018. Potential students should contact the academic supervisor listed below in the first instance, with a view to submitting their application as part of the open competition for a SWW…
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Journal of Science & Popular Culture 1.1 Now Available
To read the first issue of the Journal of Science & Popular Culture, click here.
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October 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in October 2017 Peter Garratt (ed), The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture J D Fleming, The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character John Holmes and Sharon Ruston (eds), The Routledge Research Companion to…
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CALL FOR REVIEWERS: Journal of Literature and Science
The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is once again looking for reviewers to review various articles in the field of literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for review in the JLS. The list is by no…
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BSLS/JLS Essay Prize – The Results
We are delighted to announce that the British Society for Literature and Science and Journal of Literature and Science prize for an essay by an early-career scholar has been won by Kimberley Dimitriadis for her essay “Telescopes in the Drawing-Room: Geometry and Astronomy in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss”. We offer our congratulations to Kimberley for what the…
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Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities 2018
University of Kent, 1-4 July Keynote Speakers Maaike Bleeker, Utrecht University Margrethe Bruun Vaage, University of Kent Eric Clarke, Oxford University Amy Cook, Stony Brook University Call for Papers Organisers: Melissa Trimingham and Nicola Shaughnessy, in association with the Centre for Cognition, Kinaesthetics and Performance. Building on the conferences associated with the network…
