Category: News

  • Ordering Knowledge, from Bacon to the Shelleys (Strasbourg)

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    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:…

  • June 2017 in BSLS Reviews

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    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,…

  • Open-access study of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing

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    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.

  • BSLS Small Grants and Postgraduate Conference Fund

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    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.

  • Mediating Climate Change

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      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…

  • Excellent Fellowship Opportunity in Australia for Literature and Science Scholars

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    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

  • May 2017 in BSLS Reviews

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    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:…

  • Routledge Companion to C19th Literature and Science

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    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…

  • Medical Humanities Postgrad Workshop

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    Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Medical Humanities Research Workshop for PGRs Thursday 7th September, University of Leeds, 11am – 6pm We warmly invite participants for a one-day workshop addressing the scholarly challenges and collaborative opportunities surrounding postgraduate research in the medical humanities. Increasing numbers of postgraduate students from a wide range of disciplines are undertaking work on human…

  • Commission on Science and Literature – Workshop July 2017

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    2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN THE FRAMEWORK OF “HERMOUPOLIS SEMINARS”, SYROS, 5-8 JULY 2017 “Beyond Nature in Science and Literature” The International Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, the Hellenic Open University and the Institute of Historical Research/ National Hellenic Research Foundation organize a two-days’ workshop to study “Beyond Nature in Science and Literature”. The CoSciLit workshop is…

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