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  • Winter Symposium – Final few places available

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    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…

  • Museums, Collections, and Memory Objects: Literary Intersections

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    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…

  • Commission on Science and Literature – nominations to the Council Board

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    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…

  • BSLS Postgraduate Conference Fund

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    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…

  • BSLS Annual Conference 2016 – Call for Papers

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    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…

  • Natural History Exhibition on Twitter

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    #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…

  • US Job Opportunity – Literature and the Mind

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    Position Title: Tenure-track Assistant Professor Cognitive Literary Studies Employer: University of California Santa Barbara Job Description: We invite applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in cognitive literary studies and/or neuroaesthetics who specializes in any period of British or American literature. The ideal candidate would be able to teach a range of courses that focus on…

  • New Books Sent in for Review

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    Books recently sent in for review include: Shelley Trower, Rocks of Nation: the Imagination of Celtic Cornwall, Manchester University Press John Seamon, Memory & Movies: What Films can Teach Us about Memory, MIT Press Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett, Columbia University Press Patrick Parrinder, Utopian Literature and Science, Palgrave   Please…

  • THE BODY AND PSEUDOSCIENCE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

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    Interdisciplinary Conference 18 June 2016 Newcastle University Call for Papers ‘Sciences we now retrospectively regard as heterodox or marginal cannot be considered unambiguously to have held that status at a time when no clear orthodoxy existed that could confer that status upon them’ (Alison Winter, 1997). The nineteenth century witnessed the drive to consolidate discrete…

  • Newsletter Call for Submissions, 2015

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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 Tuesday, October 27. Notices referring to the past twelve months’ activities are welcomed. I especially encourage you to send: Notices of new books (including monographs and edited volumes) published by…

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