Category: News
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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…
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Doctoral Fellowships in Medicine and the Humanities
The newly founded research training group “Life Sciences – Life Writing” (GRK 2015/1), starting April 1, 2017, is advertising Doctoral Fellowships in Medicine and the Humanities (m/f), Reference 797/16. As part of the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded research training group “Life Sciences, Life Writing: Experiences at the Boundaries of Human Life between Biomedical Explanation…
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Research Studentships
Three Quintin Hogg Trust PhD studentships in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities is delighted to offer three fully funded Quintin Hogg Trust PhD studentships beginning in September 2017 for projects using the University of Westminster Archive. The Archive holds a wide collection of material on the history…
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BSLS Small Grants Scheme and Postgraduate Conference Fund – Call for Applications
Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st March 2017. BSLS Small Grants Scheme Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £400 to promote the study of literature and science. We are open to all sorts of proposals other than personal conference expenses.…
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Annual BSLS Conference CFP Closing Soon
University of Bristol, 6-8 April 2017 ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACTS! The twelfth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Bristol, from Thursday 6 April until Saturday 8 April 2017. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Professor Robert Mitchell (Duke…
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November 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in November 2016 Anna Henchman, The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature Tommy Dickinson, ‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-74 Gowan Dawson, Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and…
