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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…

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…

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…

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…

CFP: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century St Anne’s College, Oxford 10th – 11th September 2016   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: CHRISTOPHER HAMLIN AND LAURA OTIS   In our current ‘Information Age’ we suffer as never before, it is claimed, from the stresses of an overload of information, and the speed of global networks. The…

What does it mean to ‘regenerate’, and what are the scientific, social, cultural and ethical implications of regeneration in its various forms? From biomedical engineering to stem cell therapy, the growth of regenerative medicine in the modern context has the potential to address challenges raised by stretched supplies of organ donors, chronic diseases and ageing…

Science in the Archive Registration   Registration will open on Monday 12th October. Space is limited so sign up early. 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 2015 Organisers: Verity Burke and Clare Stainthorp, at…

The next meeting of the group will be at the Lit and Phil Library, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 28 October between 6.00 pm  and 7.30 pm. Dr. Emily Alder, Edinburgh Napier University, will introduce a session entitled ‘Edith Nesbit’s Dreadful Researches’.   Edith Nesbit is best known for her children’s stories (Five…

Nominations are now being accepted for the BSLS Book Prize 2015. Inaugurated in 2007, the annual British Society for Literature and Science book prize is awarded for the best book in the field of literature and science published that year. Any book is eligible, but can only be considered if it is nominated either by…

Anthony Peake and Katy Price will be giving lectures on ‘J. B. Priestley, Dreams and Time at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London, between 2 – 4pm on Saturday 31 October. To register and book a free place visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jb-priestley-society-annual-lecture-2015. The lectures are free and open to the public as well as…