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  • ScienceHumanities International Summer School

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    SCIENCEHUMANITIES INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UK MONDAY 30 APRIL – FRIDAY 4 MAY 2018 Keynote Speaker: Professor N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University) In 2018 Cardiff University’s ScienceHumanities research group will host a week-long International Summer School dedicated to the examination of the relations between the humanities and the sciences. The Summer School programme features…

  • Science and Performance Conference

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    The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University presents Imagineers in Circus and Science: Scientific knowledge and creative imagination Tuesday 3 – Thursday 5 April 2018   Scientists seek to investigate the ways in which nature works and to ask how humanity can best comprehend different aspects of the universe. By challenging conventional wisdom,…

  • April 2017 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in April 2017 Devin Griffiths, The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins Jonathan Strauss, Human Remains: Medicine, Death and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris Evaldas Nekrašas, The Positive Mind: Its Development and Impact on Modernity and Postmodernity Sam Solnick, Poetry…

  • BSLS Book Prize Winner 2016

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    The winner of the 2016 Book Prize is Ursula K. Heise’s Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (University of Chicago Press). This remarkable, lucid examination of how contemporary culture produces understandings of imperilled nature breaks new ground in its thinking about environmental crisis — local and global — and, particularly, the terms in…

  • Collective Knowledge: Museums, Scientific Inquiry, and Literature

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    This trans-Atlantic, 2-panel event pairs a panel at the British Society of Literature and Science (BSLS) in Bristol in April 2017 with a roundtable at the annual conference of the Association of Community College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) at the Congress of Learned Societies in Toronto in May 2017.   Four papers were…

  • Nuclear Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theorising the Anthropocene after Quantum Physics

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    A workshop at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh 29th May 2017 Keynote: Professor Peter Middleton, University of Southampton ‘Poetry at the Frontiers of Physics’ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nuclear-nature-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-theorising-the-anthropocene-after-quantum-physics-tickets-33614562060?aff=ampmlt 

  • New book series on Literature and Science

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    We are delighted to announce the launch of a new series of books entitled Explorations in Science and Literature, to be published by Bloomsbury. Here is the call for proposals: Explorations in Science and Literature We look forward very much to hearing your ideas for exciting new books in our field that speak to audiences across literary scholarship and the…

  • Oxford Science, Medicine and Culture seminars

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    Here is the schedule for this term’s seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at St Anne’s College, Oxford: Wednesday 10 May 2017, 5.30 – 7.00 Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College. Professor Ursula Martin, University of Oxford – Ada Lovelace in her Mathematical Context Wednesday 25 May 2017, 5.30 – 7.00…

  • March 2017 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in March 2017 Rosalind Ridley, Peter Pan and the Mind of J M Barrie: An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness Karen Bourrier, The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel Laura Marcus, Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema Deborah Lupton,…

  • Collective Knowledge: Museums, Scientific Inquiry, and Literature

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    This year at the BSLS Annual Conference in Bristol members of the society will be part of an experimental format linking panels, conferences, learned societies and countries. The panel “Collective Knowledge: Museums, Scientific Inquiry, and Literature” (Friday, April 7 at 9am) is part of a trans-Atlantic, 2-panel event that pairs a panel at the British…

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