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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…

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…

To read the first issue of the Journal of Science & Popular Culture, click here.

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…

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…

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…

Registration now open for 2017: A Clarke Odyssey A Conference Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK Saturday 9 December 2017 Keynote Speakers: Stephen Baxter Professor Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent) Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most important British sf writers of the twentieth century…

Applicants for the NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology may be of any nationality and will have achieved distinction in the field of philosophy, history, religion, astrobiology, astronomy, planetary science, the history of science, paleontology, Earth and atmospheric sciences, geological sciences, ethics, or other related fields. For more information, please go to http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/NASA-astrobiology.html 

This term’s speakers at the Oxford Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century seminars are Dr Helen Cowie (York), Prof Martin Willis (Cardiff) and Prof Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Oxford). Here is the programme for the term: Science, Medicine and Culture seminars