Category: News
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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…
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Electrical Marvels – Conference in Lyon (language of delivery: French)
Merveilles Électriques Invention littéraire, vulgarisation et circulation médiatique Colloque internationalOrganisé par Claire Barel-Moisan (CNRS. ENS-Lyon. UMR IHRIM), Delphine Gleizes (Université Lyon 2. UMR IHRIM) Les XVIIIe et XIXe siècles constituent une période essentielle dans l’histoire des découvertes sur le magnétisme et l’électricité. Elle se caractérise par l’élaboration d’hypothèses scientifiques viables, par la mise en place de procédures expérimentales à même de…
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PhD Studentship on literature and science (nuclear literature)
Fully Funded PhD Studentship on Nuclear Literature and Culture (School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University) http://www4.ntu.ac.uk/research/ntu_doctoral_school/studentships/index.html Closing date is 12 noon on Friday 9 December. For informal discussion regarding the project, please contact: daniel.cordle@ntu.ac.uk We invite applications from prospective PhD students wishing to work on nuclear literature and culture under the…
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October 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in October 2016 David Spanagel, DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York Tina Young Choi, Anonymous Connections: The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren, and Kamillea Aghtan (eds), Corporeality and…
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Winter Symposium – **NEW DATE**
BSLS Winter Symposium The Politics of Literature and Science Queen’s Building, University of Exeter, NOW, DUE TO DEMAND, ON Saturday, 3 December, 2016 Organiser: Corinna Wagner & James Green (Department of English, Exeter University) This BSLS Winter Symposium will explore relationships between politics, science, medicine, literature and visual culture. We will take ‘politics’ in…
