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  • 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…

  • Special issue Launch – Palgrave Communications on Shakespeare

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    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…

  • NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiology Chair

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    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…

  • August 2016 in BSLS Reviews

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    Gavin Budge

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    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,…

  • PHD Studentship – Performing Science in the 19th Century

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    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

  • Poetic Botany Exhibition

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    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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