Category: News
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Special issue on Victorian literature and science
Critical Survey Deadline: October 1, 2014 The journal Critical Survey seeks submissions of completed 4000-5000 word articles exploring literary engagements with Victorian sciences. From Darwin, to physiology, to pre-Freudian psychology, to engineering and technology, and beyond, Victorian Britain experienced rapid change – but often seemed ambivalent about whether, as Robert Browning’s Andrea del Sarto puts…
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Time and Temporality Network
The second meeting of the Time and Temporality Network will take place at the University of Warwick on Friday 13th June 2014. It will be a one-day workshop focusing on temporality in relation to medicine and what might be called disorderd or atypical experiences of the body and mind. Speakers and respondents include: John Fletcher (English, University of Warwick) Ulrika…
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Carolyn Burdett speaking on psychology and aesthetics at the fin de siecle
Dr Carolyn Burdett will be giving a paper entitled ”Shareability and contagion: psychology and aesthetics at the fin de siecle” at the UCL seminar on Science and Literature at 5.30pm on Tuesday 3rd of June. As part of our series of seminars on Science and Literature, this event is taking place in UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology.Directions to this building can be…
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“Evolution and C19th Theatre”: Literature and Science seminar, Oxford, Friday 23 May
The final Oxford Literature and Science seminar of the academic year will be at 2pm, Friday 23 May, in Seminar Room A, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Oxford. Our speaker is one of the convenors of the seminar series, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, and her paper “Evolution and Nineteenth-Century Theatre” derives from her recent major research project.
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BSLS Symposium on Teaching Literature and Science
The BSLS has voted to hold an annual one-day symposium in addition to its annual conference. Unlike the conference, the symposium will be on a specific theme each year. The BSLS will make a budget of £500 available to members each year in the first instance to fund the symposium. The theme of each symposium…
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Alice Jenkins speaking on Euclid at UCL
Alice Jenkins, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Glasgow, will be giving a paper entitled “‘Eternal and unchangeable’?: Victorian anti-reception of Euclid” in the UCL Reading and Reception Seminar on May 6 at 5.30 p.m. at G24, Foster Court, Malet Place, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT. Her paper considers Victorian accounts of how to…
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George Levine speaking on Science and Religion
George Levine, Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers University, will be speaking on ‘Science and Religion from Herschel to Gould’ at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 29th April at the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, Oxford, and again at 2 p.m. on Wednesday 30th April at the Harborne Lecture Theatre at the University of Reading. Professor Levine is one of…
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BSLS/JLS Essay Prize Deadline Extended
Following a successful annual conference, the British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science would like to announce an extension to the 2014 prize deadline for the best new essay by a postgraduate or an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. The deadline,…
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George Levine : Astor Visiting Lectureship at the University of Oxford
George Levine (Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University) is one of the world’s leading figures in the field of science, literature and culture. His books include Darwin and the Novelists (1988), Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World (2006), Realism, Ethics, and Secularism: Essays in Victorian Literature and Science (2008), and Darwin the Writer…
