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  • 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…

  • CFP: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century

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    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…

  • Call for Participants: “Pasts, Presents and Futures of Medical Regeneration” Workshops

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    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…

  • Winter Symposium Update

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    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…

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