Category: News
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September 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in September 2017 Laura White, The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World Matthew Escobar, The Persistence of the Human: Consciousness, Meta-body and Survival in Contemporary Film and Literature Karin Koehler, Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams and…
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Sound Talking workshop
SOUND TALKING an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘language describing sound / sound emulating language’ Friday 3 November 2017, Dana Research Centre, London Science Museum Info and registration: Sound Talking is a one-day event at the London Science Museum that seeks to explore the complex relationships between language and sound, both historically and in the present day.…
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Call for Papers JLS/CONFIGURATIONS “DOUBLE ISSUE”
THE STATE OF THE UNIONS What are the relations between literature, science and the arts within our field today? This special double issue marks a unique collaboration between the Journal of Literature and Science and Configurations. The first instalment – JLS 10:1 – was published this year and can be read here. We now invite…
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August 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2017 Katharina Boehm, Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman Janina Wellmann, The Form of Becoming. Embryology and the…
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CFP: J.G. Ballard and the Sciences
A one-day international and cross-disciplinary conference exploring the intersections of the work of J.G. Ballard and the sciences. 25 November 2017 LAB 109, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Key Note Speaker: Christopher Priest Hosted by the Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy (CSFF) “Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate…
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JLS: CALL FOR REVIEWERS
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 Journal. The list is by no…
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Humphry Davy: Laughing gas, literature and the lamp
BSLS members will remember Professor Sharon Ruston’s excellent plenary lecture on Davy at our 2016 conference in Birmingham. Sharon’s new 4-week MOOC, Humphry Davy: Laughing Gas, Literature, and the Lamp, starts on 30 October. The course draws on her research as co-editor of Davy’s Collected Letters and her work on Romantic-era literature and science, and is…
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July 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in July 2017 Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence Gillian Beer, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds.), Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power Andrew…
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BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 11th August 2017
*Reminder* Following the success of the JLS/BSLS essay prize in previous years, The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science would like to announce the 2017 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and…
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CFP: Science Studies and the Blue Humanities
Configurations, the journal of SLSA (The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) is seeking submissions for a special issue on Science Studies and the Blue Humanities, edited by Stacy Alaimo. We are interested in essays, position papers, provocations, and artist statements that explore the significance of science studies for the development of the blue…
