Category: News
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Lecturer in Medical Humanities
The University of Bristol invites applications to a full-time permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in Medical Humanities. Candidates who can demonstrate excellence in the teaching and research of Medical Humanities as it intersects with any area or period of English Literature are eligible to apply. For more information please follow this link.
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Reading Group on the Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century
The next session of the reading group will take place on Monday 20 April at 6.00pm at the Lit and Phil Library, Newcastle upon Tyne. Everyone is welcome, refreshments provided. Dr. Peter Garratt, Durham University, will introduce two readings on: The Science and Art of Atmosphere Clouds turn the eye upwards towards the indeterminate,…
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BSLS and JLS Essay Prize
The British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science would like to announce our annual prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. The deadline for this year’s prize will be 19th June, in order to give…
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BSLS 2015 Conference Programme
The full programme for the BSLS 10th annual conference in Liverpool is now available here BSLS 2015 Programme. For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website.
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Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The Royal Society invites entries for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. The 2015 prize will celebrate the best of outstanding popular science books from around the world. This prestigious prize is open to authors of science books that are accessible and compelling accounts of the world around us or inside us,…
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Tuberculosis workshop
‘Tuberculosis as a Romantic Disease: Artistic, Historical & Literary Perspectives’ A Workshop funded by the Leverhulme Trust Thursday, 18 June 2015, 4.00 – 6.30pm Room 2.21, Research Beehive, Old Library Building (Level 2), Newcastle University Speakers: Dr Helen Bynum (Historian), ‘Tuberculous Lives – Conforming to the Stereotype?’ Anna Dumitriu (Artist) ‘The Romantic Disease: An Artistic…
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Thomas Hardy Arts and Creative Technology PhD studentship
Fully-funded three-year AHRC Research and Enterprise in Arts and Creative Technology (REACT) Collaborative PhD Studentship: Thomas Hardy and Heritage Based at Dorset County Museum and the University of Exeter (Centres for Literature and Archives and for Victorian Studies, College of Humanities), this studentship will be focused on Thomas Hardy and his correspondents. The letters to…
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Effects of the Scientific Imaginary workshop
The workshop ‘Effects of the Scientific Imaginary’ will take place at the SPH Centre in Bordeaux-Montaigne University on June 11th & 12th 2015. The workshop aims at discussing the examining the effects of scientific thought-experiments and fantasies from a variety of disciplinary angles. For example: do stories of brain transplantation and swamp-people import conceptual assumptions…
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BSLS Executive Committee Postitions
Several positions on the BSLS Executive Committee will be either vacant or up for renewal this April 2015: Chair, Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Book Reviews Officer*, Member at Large and a new role of Member at Large – for a postgraduate or early career researcher without a permanent post*. If you are interested in any of…
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Oxford Science, Medicine and Culture seminars
The programme for next term’s seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at Oxford University has been announced. The speakers are Lee Macdonald, Matthew Paskins and Rachel Bowlby. Click on the link below to see who is speaking when: http://diseasesofmodernlife.org/category/events/
