Category: News

  • Commission on Literature and Science: updated cfp

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    Here is a new, fuller call for papers for the International Conference on Science and Literature, 10-11 July 2012, Athens, Greece. CALL FOR PAPERS-COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE The call for papers closes on January 31st 2014. For any further questions please send an email to gvlahakis@yahoo.com.

  • Interdisciplinary workshop on reproduction

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    The 9th annual Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction at Cambridge will be held on Friday Nov. 15th from 9AM-7PM. (Registration closes Friday Nov. 8th @ 3PM!) Presentations this year range from oocyte preservation, to the emerging meanings of cells, to the role of motherhood. This year’s aim is to consider how reproduction is constructed and communicated…

  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant Posts: Oxford and Leicester

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    Readers of the BSLS pages may be interested in five Postdoctoral Research Assistant posts which have just been advertised. These are as follows: 1) Research Assistant on the AHRC project ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’, led by Professor Sally Shuttleworth and based at St Anne’s College, Oxford. The focus…

  • British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2014: Final Call for Papers

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    The ninth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on 10-12 April 2014. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey), Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Professor Mary Orr (University of Southampton). The conference will finish with…

  • SLSA-EU conference

    The 8th SLSA-EU Conference, “Life, in Theory” will take place June 3-6, 2014, in Turin, Italy. For details, including the call for papers , see http://litsciarts.eu/. Plenary speakers are Claire Colebrook, Roberto Esposito, Giuseppe Testa, Paolo Vineis, and Cary Wolfe — leading scholars in political philosophy, critical theory, epidemiology, stem cell genetics, media theory, and…

  • Cannibal Modernisms conference

    Cannibal Modernisms King’s College London Programme in Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference,  7th-8th November, 2013. Keynote Speaker: Professor Xudong Zhang, Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University. “Politics of the Flesh:  The Animal in Redefining the Human in Modern Chinese Literature and Ideology”  Cannibal Modernisms will be two-day conference exploring the metaphorical implications…

  • Staging Science

    The Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination at the University of Westminster is holding a two-day event on Staging Science on December 6th and 7th, including a roundtable, a colloquium and a performance of the Pepper’s Ghost Illusion with Charles Dickens’s ‘The Haunted Man’. For more details, and to reserve places, click here: STAGING…

  • Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference

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    Call for papers: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter will be holding an interdisciplinary medical humanities conference for postgraduate researchers on the 24th and 25th July 2014. This conference aims to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines in a manner that reflects the broad scope…

  • New BSLS international officers

    The BSLS executive has appointed two new international officers to sit on the executive committee. We are delighted to announce that Janine Rogers (Mount Allison University) and Folkert Degenring (Universität Kassel) have agreed to take up these new posts. Their role will be to promote the work of the BSLS in fostering research in the field…

  • Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society doctoral studentships

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    The RGS-IBG and the Royal Society have been awarded an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP), which will support three doctoral studentships each year for three years from 2013.  Academics from universities with potential projects, or with an interest in discussing opportunities, please contact Dr Catherine Souch at the RGS-IBG or Keith Moore at the…

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