Category: News
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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…
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Commission on Science and Literature website
The Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit) has launched its new website. Click here to take a look. The website includes the list of the newly elected Officers of the Commission, and the call for papers for the next CoSciLit conference to be held in Pöllau, Austria on 7-9 September 2016.
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EJES special issue: Poetry, Science and Technology
The European Journal for English Studies will be publishing a special issue on Poetry, Science and Technology, edited by Irmtraud Huber (Berne) and Wolfgang Funk (Mainz). The deadline for proposals is 31 Oct 2016; the deadline for completed articles is 31 March 2017. In addition to the Editors’ judgements, EJES follows a rigorous double blind peer-review process. To read the…
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Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century Research Group
The next meeting of the Research Group will take place on Wednesday 17 February 2016 at the Lit and Phil Library in Newcastle upon Tyne between 6.00 pm and 7.30 pm. Dr Tricia Cresswell, Public Health doctor and MA student in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, will present a paper and lead a discussion…
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January 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in January 2016 Evan Gottlieb and Juliet Shields (eds.) Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660–1830: From Local to Global Johan Höglund, The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence Brad Pasanek, Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary Victoria Flanagan, Technology…
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British Library Internships – Science in Society
The British Library are offering 3-month internships to PhD students, and one of the offered positions is in the field of ‘Science in Society’. http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/highered/phd-placement-scheme/science-in-society.pdf
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2nd Newsletter for the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science (ELINAS) now available
The newsletter can be viewed at the following link http://elinas.fau.de/newsletter/nov15_eng.html
