Category: News
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Winter Symposium at Storify
The recent BSLS Winter Symposium, Science in the Archives, held at Reading and hosted by Verity Burke and Claire Stainthorp, was extensively tweeted before and during the event. Verity and Claire have now captured those tweets on Storify, for those who can and those who cannot access Twitter. You can follow the narrative of the…
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Science Fiction Research Association Conference 2016
Science Fiction Research Association Conference 2016 CFP – SFRA 2016 cfp 2.1 Sml
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Call for Fellowship Applications from the Library of Congress
The Astrobiology Chair is a distinguished senior research position in residence at the Library of Congress for a period of up to twelve months. Using research facilities and services at the Library of Congress, the scholar engages in research at the intersection of the science of astrobiology and its humanistic and societal implications. The appointment…
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Call for contributors to Teaching Romanticism
As part of the ongoing series, ‘Teaching Romanticism’, I am seeking contributions on the topic of Literature and Science. This blog post will consider the opportunities for and challenges of teaching Literature and Science within the Romantic period (broadly defined). Contributors might explore approaches to a particular text, the challenges and advantages posed by interdisciplinary approaches, the use…
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Winter Symposium – Final few places available
There remain a few places left for the next Winter Symposium – do sign up quickly if you wish to attend. The event is free. Science in the Archive Registration Sign up is taking place through Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-in-the-archives-bsls-winter-symposium-tickets-18860410997 Event Details: Location: Museum of English Rural Life and University of Reading’s Special Collections Date: Saturday 14th November…
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Museums, Collections, and Memory Objects: Literary Intersections
Proposed Panel at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Conference, at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Calgary Alberta, 28-31 May 2016. Museums, Collections, and Memory Objects: Literary Intersections Call for Papers: This panel, inspired by the recent intersections of literary and material culture studies, invites proposals that…
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Commission on Science and Literature – nominations to the Council Board
The Commission on Science and Literature is seeking nominations for the Council Board by Friday 30th October. We have received nominations for President, Treasurer and Secretary, and for the regional officers for Asia, Australasia and South America. We would especially welcome nominations for the Webmaster, the PhD student member of the council, and the regional officers for…
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BSLS Postgraduate Conference Fund
The BSLS is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for postgraduate student members. The Postgraduate Conference Fund will offer two bursaries of £200 for BSLS postgraduate members toward the cost of presenting research papers at conferences (this excludes the BSLS annual conference, which has its own postgraduate bursary scheme). In addition to funding attendance…
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BSLS Annual Conference 2016 – Call for Papers
The eleventh annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Birmingham, from Thursday 7 April until Saturday 9 April 2016. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Harriet Ritvo (MIT), Professor Sharon Ruston (University of Lancaster), and Professor Alice Roberts (University of Birmingham). The BSLS invites…
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Natural History Exhibition on Twitter
#ColeEx: A Twitter Exhibition of Twentieth-Century Natural History and Zoology at the Cole Museum of Zoology, UK This upcoming exhibition is based on a collaborative mini-project between the University of Reading’s Museums and Special Collections (@UniRdg_SpecColl), the Cole Museum of Zoology (@ColeZoology), and the Centre for Collections-based Research. The project involved the creation of a…
