Category: News
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BSLS Book Prize Shortlist announced
The following books have been shortlisted for the BSLS Book Prize for 2016: Gowan Dawson, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (Chicago) Devin Griffiths, The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature between the Darwins (Johns Hopkins) Ursula K. Heise, Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (Chicago) David Thorley, Writing Illness…
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BSLS 2017 Conference Programme
The full programme for the BSLS 2017 conference at the University of Bristol is now available here. For further details, please see the conference website.
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for ‘The Memory of Trees’ Conference hosted by the Literature & Science Hub, University of Liverpool
Date: 20th April 2017 Timings: 9.30am – 5.30pm Venue: School of the Arts Library, University of Liverpool, 19-23 Abercromby Square, L69 7ZG Registration is now open for ‘The Memory of Trees’, an interdisciplinary, one-day conference with the Literature and Science Hub on the cultural representation, study, and conservation of trees and woodlands. Our keynote speakers…
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Victorian literature and the subconscious – Little Atoms Radio Show
The Little Atoms radio show is looking for academics to interview about Victorian literature and the subconscious. Please get in touch with Caroline Christie (caroline@89up.org) if interested.
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BSLS Elections to the Executive Committee
BSLS Executive Committee Positions Three positions on the BSLS Executive Committee will be either vacant or up for renewal in April: International officer (North America), Communications officer, and Member at Large. Present incumbents in two of the positions (Communications officer, and Member at Large) are seeking to continue in their roles, but all three posts…
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February 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in February 2017 Miriam Wallraven, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches Kathleen Frederickson, The Ploy of Instinct: Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance Ayesha Ramachandran, The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early…
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Collaborative Doctoral Project on Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Where Art and Science Meet: Art and Design at Oxford University Museum of Natural History (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award) Level of Study: Doctoral research Subject area: History of Art Nationality: EU, UK Type of Award: Research Council Deadline for applying: 24/03/2017 Award Description The Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University…
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January 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in January 2017 Wyatt Bonikowski, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age Richard D Fulton and Peter H Hoffenberg…
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Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars at the University of Oxford
Here are the details of this term’s seminars in the Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series at Oxford: Wednesday 1 February 2017 Professor Barbara Taylor, Queen Mary University of London Pathologies of Solitude 5.30 – 7.00, Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College Drinks will be served after the seminar. All welcome, no…
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December 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in December 2016 Anne Green, Changing France: Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire Will Tattersdill, Science, Fiction and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines A list of books for…
