Category: News
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March 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in March 2016 Daniel Brown, The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense Mary Thomas Crane, Losing touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England Allen MacDuffie, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination Christina Walter, Optical Impersonality: Science,…
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Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries
The closing date for the next round of the Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries scheme is 1st April 2016. This scheme is for small and medium-scale research projects based on library or archive collections supported by the Wellcome Trust. Projects must focus either on Wellcome Library holdings or on any collection supported by a previous Wellcome Trust Research Resources grant,…
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BSLS 2016 Conference Programme
The full programme for the 2016 BSLS conference at the University of Birmingham is now available BSLS 2016 – Provisional Programme 2nd edn. For details of how register to attend the conference, please see this link.
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February 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in February 2016 Eckart Voigts, Barbara Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (eds.), Reflecting on Darwin Jen E Boyle, Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature Larry Duffy, Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge Mona Narain and Karen Gevirtz (eds.), Gender and Space in British…
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BSLS & JLS Early Career Essay Prize 2016
Following the success of the JLS/BSLS essay prize in previous years, The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science would like to announce the 2016 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not…
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CALL FOR REVIEWERS: Journal of Literature and Science
Dear BSLS Members, The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is once again looking for reviewers to review various articles in the field of literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. Just to remind members, the JLS is unique in reviewing journal articles rather than books in the fields of…
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BSLS Book Prize Shortlist
The Society is pleased to announce that the following books have been shortlisted for the 2015 Book Prize. The winner will be announced at the annual Conference in Birmingham from 7th-9th April. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors. Peter Capuano, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body (U of Michigan Press) Markus…
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Nominations for Executive Committee Posts
Two posts on the BSLS Executive Committee will become vacant this April 2016: Secretary (Peter Middleton is standing down), and International Officer (Folkert Degenring is standing down). If you are interested in taking on either of these posts or have questions about them, please do contact me, or any member of the committee. The sections…
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Postgraduate Conference Fund award winners
The BSLS is pleased to announce that we have made two awards in this year’s Postgraduate Conference Fund competition. Ryan Sweet, a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, has been awarded a bursary towards the cost of presenting his research at the Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies conference at the University of Alberta, Canada. Maria Avxentevskayato…
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The Eye’s Mind: Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities
An international conference at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 20 – 22 May 2016 Many fields of culture, especially art and literature, religion and science, rely on the visual imagination. Its importance for our mental life has long made it a subject of interest to philosophers, and more recently…
