Category: News

  • SLSA-EU conference

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…

  • Oxford Literature and Science seminar, November 2013

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    The Oxford Literature and Science seminar resumes activity this term with papers from Dr Andrew Mangham (University of Reading), Dr Cathryn Setz (St Anne’s College), and Dr Peter Fifield (St John’s College). The seminar will be in Seminar Room A, the English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road. Details for this term are: Friday 1…

  • Interdisciplinary Research into the Humanities and Science

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    The University of Reading has launched a new research initiative on Interdisciplinary Research into the Humanities and Science. To launch this theme, we will be holding a public roundtable discussion of Science and Storytelling at the University of Reading’s London Road campus on Wednesday 6 November at 6.30 p.m., preceded by a wine reception from…

  • BSLS Conference 2014: updated 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…

  • Literature and science event at the Geological Society

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    Ask the Mountains Their Story: an evening of science and literature On Friday 18th October the Geological Society of London celebrates different forms of writing that address geology, climate change and scientific discovery with an evening of talks and readings celebrating the links between science and literature. Marking the end of an Arts Council England funded project…

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