Category: News
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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…
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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.
