Category: News
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Shared Futures Conference – would you like to represent the BSLS?
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…
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SLSA in Europe annual conference – Basel 21-24 June – Call for Papers
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…
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BSLS Autumn 2016 Newsletter
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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Special issue Launch – Palgrave Communications on Shakespeare
Special issue launch Shakespeare: explorations over time and across disciplines Palgrave Communications is a multi-disciplinary open access journal publishing peer-reviewed original research across all areas of the humanities & the social sciences. To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Palgrave Communications is pleased to announce the launch of a special issue on Shakespeare studies. This special issue presents…
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NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiology Chair
About the Program The Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiology Program establishes a focus in the nation’s capital for the exploration of issues surrounding life’s future in the universe, for humans and other species, on Earth and beyond. The program encourages discussion and reflection on the potential impacts of discovering whether there is life…
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August 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2016 Mark Frost, The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás (eds), Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire J P Telotte & Gerald Duchovnay, eds, Science Fiction,…
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PHD Studentship – Performing Science in the 19th Century
The University of Westminster’s department of English is offering a fully-funded 3 year Full-Time PhD studentship on the topic of performing science in the nineteenth century. Full details can be found at https://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/research-areas/social-sciences-and-humanities/research-studentships/performing-science-in-the-19th-century
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Poetic Botany Exhibition
BSLS member Sam George at Hertfordshire been involved in a collaboration with New York Botanical Gardens for an exhibition on Poetic Botany in the Eighteenth Century. The exhibition can now be seen live at http://www.nybg.org/poetic-botany/.
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JLS/CONFIGURATIONS “DOUBLE ISSUE” CALL FOR PAPERS
THE STATE OF THE UNIONS What are the relations between literature, science and the arts within our field today? This special double issue marks a unique collaboration between the Journal of Literature and Science and Configurations. Across two years – 2017 in the JLS and 2018 in Configurations – we aim to enable scholars of…
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Journal of Literature and Science – Call for Reviewers
The latest call for reviewers from the Journal of Literature and Science is available here: JLS CALL FOR REVIEWERS 2016
