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  • Visions of Nature events in Oxford

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    This year the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has been hosting a series of exhibitions, events and residencies under the theme Visions of Nature. In December, BSLS members John Holmes and Janine Rogers will be taking part in three public events at the museum as part of this celebration of art and poetry inspired by…

  • Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Durham University

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    Applications are invited from outstanding candidates who have research and teaching interests in interdisciplinary literary studies, in an area such as (but not restricted to) digital humanities, literature and the environment, literature and visual culture, or cross-media narrative. The successful candidate will be expected to have an excellent research and teaching profile, commensurate with career…

  • CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION: Centre Scientifique de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences in Paris – 74, rue Lauriston Paris 75016

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    October 20-21, 2016  Life sciences: imagination and scientific discourse (late 18th – 19th centuries) Thursday October 20 – 9:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Opening – 9:30 a.m. Professor Marek Więckowski, director of the Académie polonaise des Sciences in Paris Professor Miroslaw Loba, Adam Mickiewicz University Professor Gisèle Séginger, Paris-Est University and Institut Universitaire de France SCIENTIFIC…

  • CFP: BSLS Winter Symposium

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      The Politics of Literature and Science Queen’s Building, University of Exeter, Saturday, 12 November, 2016 Organiser: Corinna Wagner (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 both its broadest sense—considering for example, the politics of the…

  • September 2016 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in September 2016 Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone, Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience Charis Charalampous, Rethinking the Mind-Body Relationship in Early Modern Literature, Philosophy and Medicine Craig Martin, Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History and Philosophy in Early Modern Science A list…

  • Commission on Science and Literature news

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    The Commission on Science and Literature organized two events in the past summer. The workshop ‘Nature, Humans and God(s)’ was held on the island of Syros in Greece on 8-9 July. The 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature was held at Echophysics in Poellau, Austria, on 7-9 September. The proceedings of both meetings are to be published. In…

  • Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars at the University of Oxford

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    This term there will be two seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at Oxford: Wednesday 19 October Dr Andrew Mangham, University of Reading ‘Have ye ever seen a child clemmed to death?’: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Physiology of Starvation 5.30 – 7.00, Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College Wednesday 9 November…

  • Shared Futures Conference – would you like to represent the BSLS?

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    In early July of 2017 the city of Newcastle will host a future of the discipline of English conference called Shared Futures. As I announced at the BSLS conference in April, we have been invited to put together a panel to showcase the work of the Society. The committee feels that the very best way…

  • SLSA in Europe annual conference – Basel 21-24 June – Call for Papers

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    EMPATHIES 2017 www.empathies2017.com Jean Decety | Jackie Leach Scully | Jesse Prinz | Denise Riley Call for Participation – Deadline: 10.12.2016 For a number of years now, empathy has been a central topic of public and academic debate and research. It is the subject of artistic, moral, and psychological reflections and commands interest from the…

  • BSLS Autumn 2016 Newsletter

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    BSLS members are invited to submit items suitable for inclusion in this autumn’s Newsletter by Word attachment to jennihalpin@gmail.com. Please direct them to me by Friday, October 28. Notices referring to the past twelve months’ activities are welcomed. At this time we are also shifting to a quarterly publication. To that end, you can expect…

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