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  • Scale of Nature conference

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    Scale of Nature: Long Nineteenth-Century Culture and the Great Chain of Being One-Day Conference Saturday 18 March 2017 Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and Centre for Visual Arts and Culture https://www.dur.ac.uk/cncs/conferences/scaleofnature/ CFP Deadline: Friday 25 November 2016 Durham University, UK Keynote Address: Professor Peter Bowler (Queen’s University, Belfast) CALL FOR PAPERS Amongst the paradigms current in nineteenth-century…

  • October 2016 in BSLS Reviews

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    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…

  • Winter Symposium – **NEW DATE**

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    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…

  • 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…

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