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  • Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture

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    Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing, School of English, University of Kent, 9th-10th May 2014 Call for Papers Focusing on the literary and historical representation of irrational emotions or phobias, Fear and Loathing seeks papers on topics and authors from any period, which aim to demonstrate the…

  • AHRC Science in Culture event

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    Applications are now open for an AHRC Science in Culture Theme Ignite event to be held at the Natural History Museum on Wednesday 26th March 2014. The event is an opportunity for Early Career researchers and will showcase the best of interdisciplinary research across the Arts, Humanities and Sciences. Further information about the event, including a call…

  • New journal issue on Space in the Nineteenth Century

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    19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 17 (2013) SpaceThis issue, guest edited by Isobel Armstrong, is dedicated to concepts of space and to nineteenth-century spaces. From the verbal constructions of space that pattern nineteenth-century novels, to the n-dimensional space of philosophic speculation and popular genre fictions, and from astronomy to the spaces…

  • SLSAeu relaunch and conference

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    SLSAeu, the European branch of the international Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, has recently been relaunched. Its executive office is now located at the English Department, University of Basel, Switzerland. To read more about the Society, please visit the website at: http://engsem.unibas.ch/research/research‐projects/slsaeu You can also download a flier for SLSAeu, including details of their next…

  • BSLS Book Prize 2013

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    Nominations are being accepted for the BSLS Book Prize 2013. The prize is made to the best scholarly book on any aspect of literature and science published in the last year. Members and publishers are welcome to nominate books. Members may nominate their own titles, but please note that individual memberships must be current and the publication in question…

  • ELINAS Inaugural Conference cfp

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    Call for Papers for the Inaugural Conference of ELINAS (Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Sciences) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Germany 29.05. – 01.06.2014 Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization Physics, literature, and literary criticism are discourses of knowledge production which have drifted apart considerably in the course of the modern functional differentiation…

  • British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference 2014

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    The BSHS Annual Conference will take place from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 July 2014 at the University of St Andrews. The Programme Committee now invites proposals for individual papers and for sessions from historians of science, technology and medicine, and from their colleagues in the wider scholarly community, on any theme, topic or period.…

  • Lecturer in Literature and Medicine

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    The University of Bristol is inviting applications to a full-time permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in English Literature (Literature and Medicine). If you are interested in applying for this post, click here for the job description and further particulars.

  • Literature and science talks in Oxford this week

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    There are three talks taking place this week on literature and science at Oxford University. Here are the details: Monday 18th November: Victorian Graduate Seminar (History of Book Room, English Faculty): 17.15 onwards. Gowan Dawson (Leicester): ‘“Working the Public Up for Science”: Thomas Henry Huxley and the Problems of Popularization.’ Tuesday 19th November: Oxford Centre…

  • Oxford Literature and Science Seminar, 15 November 2013

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    The Oxford Literature and Science seminar meets on Friday 15 November, 2pm, in Seminar Room A, the English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford. All are welcome. Friday 15 November, 2pm Dr Cathryn Setz (St Anne’s College), ‘Stone Age Science: Contra-Darwinian Discourse in Modernist Magazines.’

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