Category: News
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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 Essays should be currently unpublished and…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…
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Ordering Knowledge, from Bacon to the Shelleys (Strasbourg)
Ordering knowledge, from Bacon to the Shelleys International conference 16-17 March 2018 University of Strasbourg Organised by Pôle Grand-EST-SEAA XVII-XVIII (Société d’Etudes Anglo-Américaines du XVIIe et XVIIe siècles) in collaboration with IDEA (Interdisiciplinarité dans les Etudes Anglophones, Univ. de Lorraine) and SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone : Représentations, Culture, Histoire, Univ. de Strasbourg). Confirmed keynote speakers:…
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June 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in June 2017 Graham Harman, Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory Marc Flandreau, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: a Financial History of Victorian Britain Somogy Varga, Naturalism, Interpretation and Mental Disorder Suzanne Bailey, Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry Mark Offord,…
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Open-access study of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing
Thanks to Wellcome Trust funding, Martina Zimmermann’s new monograph The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing is fully available through open access. To download the book for free from the publisher’s website, click here.
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BSLS Small Grants and Postgraduate Conference Fund
Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st September 2017. For more information on how to apply and on past awards, please visit our funding page.
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Mediating Climate Change
4 – 6 July 2017 University of Leeds Call for Registration: Mediating Climate Change is an international, multidisciplinary conference taking place at Leeds University, 4th-6th July 2017. This major environmental humanities conference will cross disciplines and periods to analyse the ways in which human beings have tried to make sense of climate change. What difficulties are…
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Excellent Fellowship Opportunity in Australia for Literature and Science Scholars
The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University has extended its application period for Visiting Fellowships under the theme of ‘Imagining Science and Technology 200 Years after Frankenstein’ until 23 June 2017 http://hrc.anu.edu.au/2018-annual-theme
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May 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in May 2017 Barbara K. Seeber, Jane Austen and Animals Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science Stephanie Shirilan, Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy Peter de Bolla, The Architecture of Concepts:…
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Routledge Companion to C19th Literature and Science
The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science has just been published. Edited by John Holmes and Sharon Ruston, with an afterword by Bernard Lightman, it includes 27 chapters by leading experts covering ten literary genres, over a dozen scientific disciplines, and four key contexts for research into literature and science across the nineteenth century. To read…
