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A one-day symposium exploring how the concept of 'sex' was theorised at the turn of the 20th century.
‘Fin de Sexe?’ is a one-day symposium that explores how sex, broadly construed, was theorised at the turn of the twentieth century. In doing so, it will place particular emphasis on how sexual types and practices emerged from, and between, scientific and ‘non-scientific’ disciplines. Panels will explore the diverse feelings and representations these modes of thinking about sex invited from such writers, those being written about, and their inevitable intersections.
The keynote, delivered by Professor Heike Bauer (Birkbeck, University of London), will explore the intersections between animal history and the modern history of sexuality.
<h3>About the Speaker:</h3>
Heike Bauer is Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History, and Head of Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on literature and the modern history of sexuality, the intersections between queer and animal histories, and the rise of queer and feminist graphic novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, member of the AHRC Peer Review College, advisory group member of Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies (BiGS), co-convenor of the History of Sexuality Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, and member of the editorial boards of Australian Feminist Studies, History of the Human Sciences, and Gender & History.
 
This event is free to attend, but please reserve your space via <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fin-de-sexe-a-symposium-on-sexuality-tickets-893761734407?aff=oddtdtcreator">Eventbrite</a>.
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The volume’s thematic guidelines are coincident with those of the conference, aiming at giving an account of contemporary performing arts and science intersections through a compilation of selected works.
You can find more information about this call here -> <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fl.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftinyurl.com%252Ftheatreaboutscience%253Ffbclid%253DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0fXrdoUS68zmyXOYvSLZ_9Sz5gDrif9UjbJsFHosqw6BECLQBAIMI3gYI_aem_AbFvbDSf93VD1vAdPvTR0QV8PwBUxvvX4dZp53DwiGQiNQhaCONmGbboyhufNB0g5iYTmrGxzKapmhTUR5f0Voif%26h%3DAT1ZwBFGhnKiRa-8Mnj4i7Y8Z9c23QOZaY5pIGvKuoktDMXRG9o2t56vhKX_ms9E1V34o9KhzSZun-Lq1pkCqXjsnTrZBMp8W9HXpg1tNwhEO_3gBwBCSTEoMJKvBhixRVb-WxY%26__tn__%3D-UK-R%26c%5B0%5D%3DAT3QGbrzFez59HyK-fhpCCT4YNqvsrKSmgjX-Of1ZBfF_2m_YgR3BKpD9RNP9_2Bg9seVnq8ry9GIjvZZYEHdkjz1z3OIQn1gJPjh71NiojSjBSaAgp8jBRJVnZr-vo4MkzqGflV7QD6CspDXzTFQBWXoogg5MN1-NUCA_ycdjHzVk4SDRc3sR90fa4jWv6YvsE3JpikUd9f8kE0yxwU8LPdEFOyGXg9TE5ZyFvkXioO89Z6&data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.kistler%40strath.ac.uk%7Cf6925a08182b4a0e728d08dc6e86d94a%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638506774491609520%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nHOIKjI1aQw1Xn2e5EGvQM73xWNVevSYCiR%2Bgu7GNH4%3D&reserved=0">https://tinyurl.com/theatreaboutscience</a>
There will be a two-step review process, in advance of an October 2025 publication:
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The book will be published open access by the University of Coimbra Press.
 
Submit an abstract for a proposal using this form -> <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fl.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftinyurl.com%252FSendproposal%253Ffbclid%253DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2gMRDd8Napg2jSrUnEEPdBDeXRF8NZ7RtVf_HpYhEI5lF9102jOoDXTdE_aem_AbF1HQPhvsDzQRBoNS2UqcachYixA-jHsWLdz7XQGpjkxW29AFl6pXsKMBetMrVjXJg3Qyn1VvmRA9rPikiXx4kX%26h%3DAT012JR-E3WumQBT_sRX0-sMDTVWUYSHDux-zbnDSW7EfR4aE9kOl0h3gxPGOmQ3ciqAiIF8f5T1urnjIOQXMqNwtXHEPWW5AHRSxiPinjzY3KbVuc2zuaWNVfTN5s4RVG87-v0%26__tn__%3D-UK-R%26c%5B0%5D%3DAT3QGbrzFez59HyK-fhpCCT4YNqvsrKSmgjX-Of1ZBfF_2m_YgR3BKpD9RNP9_2Bg9seVnq8ry9GIjvZZYEHdkjz1z3OIQn1gJPjh71NiojSjBSaAgp8jBRJVnZr-vo4MkzqGflV7QD6CspDXzTFQBWXoogg5MN1-NUCA_ycdjHzVk4SDRc3sR90fa4jWv6YvsE3JpikUd9f8kE0yxwU8LPdEFOyGXg9TE5ZyFvkXioO89Z6&data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.kistler%40strath.ac.uk%7Cf6925a08182b4a0e728d08dc6e86d94a%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638506774491633126%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UdnVjzcDpaFmrVvVP6Z6ObmQOixHosLmxVKUdfJico0%3D&reserved=0">https://tinyurl.com/Sendproposal</a>
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<description><![CDATA[The next BioCriticism webinar will take place on the 26th of April at 2 pm CET / 1 pm BST: Jerome de Groot (University of Manchester) will give a talk on "The Biomolecularisation of the Archive". His respondent will be François-Joseph Lapointe (University of Montréal). All are welcome. BioCriticism webinar, 26/04, 2 pm CET […]]]></description>
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“The Biomolecularisation of the Archive”
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Meeting ID: 836 8539 6506 Passcode: 602541
Abstract: New genetic approaches to the material of the archive have wide implications for our conception of the past, our understanding of memory, and our broader sense of what historical information even is. Whilst historical data has regularly been developed and challenged, and historians use a breadth of information, my contention is that the accelerated development of huge datasets that are beyond the reach of ‘historians’ has the potential to transform the discipline. Set within (whilst also driving) a wider biomolecular turn in society, as cultural understanding of the past becomes genetically-informed, this change in the historical approach suggests a shift towards what I call ‘double helix history’.
Professor Jerome de Groot teaches at the University of Manchester. He is the author most recently of Double Helix History which looks at DNA and the past. He is currently working on new projects about FutureArchives and Biomolecular Humanities. 
Professor François-Joseph Lapointe is a biologist and bioartist, teaching at the Université de Montréal. As part of his research, he is interested in phylogenetics, systematics, and the human microbiome. As part of his artistic practice, he draws inspiration from models of molecular biology and genetics.
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<description><![CDATA[Chloe Germaine, The Dark Matter of Children’s ‘Fantastika’ Literature: Speculative Entanglements, Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children’s Literature (Bloomsbury, 2023), 232 pp. £76.50 Hb. £61.20 E-book. ISBN HB: 9781350167018 This is a sophisticated book, which despite being highly theoretical is also very readable. The book is a huge achievement: the culmination of the author’s immersion in a […]]]></description>
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This is a sophisticated book, which despite being highly theoretical is also very readable. The book is a huge achievement: the culmination of the author’s immersion in a field for a significant time. It begins with a number of definitions as the author sets out how key terms are to be understood and used, such as ‘Fantastika’, ‘ecology’, ‘Dark matter’. Thus the book begins rather drily, but it does not continue in this vein despite the number of terms that need to be addressed and incorporated into Germaine’s argument. A number of ‘turns’ are outlined (the material turn, the linguistic turn, the speculative turn, the gothic turn, and the vegetal turn) but they are all beautifully and accessible described and their importance to the book is clear. The argument is set out clearly and its political timeliness is apparent: ‘My claim is that the literatures of Fantastika offer unique responses to, and mediations of, the condition of ecological belonging, a condition that is simultaneously real and speculative, material and imagined’ (1). This is a book that demonstrates the author’s erudition and activism on every page and I am glad to have read it.
The amount of theoretical and critical sources that are brought to bear on the author’s own thesis is impressive. All of the texts discussed in this book sound intriguing. Germaine is particularly skilful at this: introducing a book the reader may not have encountered before and giving just enough detail for that not to be an issue, but enough to make us want to read the text itself. After the brief examples mentioned, the introduction sets out the book’s critical context. The importance of writing for young people is clear: the contemporary climate crisis puts young people front and centre. They have agency in the imaginative worlds of these creative works that they do not have in real life. It is interesting to see that Germaine admits to having changed her mind about certain aspects of the work she has been doing for a few years now: ‘I am less optimistic in the present study than in my previous work because the texts I examine take on a real-world urgency in the contexts of a rapidly worsening global and ecological crisis’ (4). The book has a political imperative and rightly so. I found the pages on new materialism to be informative and clear. One thing I would like to challenge is the use of ‘Romanticism’ as the straw man in this theory: there is good current work being published that reads Romantic-period literature within the new materialism lens and that complicates the notion of ‘nature’ as separate from the human world, ‘outside of society and politics’ (159).
Quantum physics and the idea of ‘entanglement’ are particularly productive for Germaine’s readings. Dark Matter has an impressive scope in terms of the genres and number of texts within these genres that are carefully considered. Chapter One reads the ‘occult’ landscapes of post-war children’s fantasy in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising (1973) and Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960). Germaine argues that the novels ‘intimate Jane Bennett’s insistence that human power is really a kind of “thing-power”’ rather than focus, as others have done, on evidence of human subjectivity (40). The second chapter also focuses on fantasy but in texts written in the current century: Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch, Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone, and Melvin Burgess’s The Lost Witch. Two Nigerian American writers and Burgess (who is from Bristol) use magic in their novels to ‘stage encounters between human characters and the more-than-human world’ (66). They gesture towards ‘panpsychist philosophy and animist cosmologies’ in order to ‘provide ethical reflections on being part of a world that is suffused with life’ (66). In this chapter, animism (newly configured as ‘new animism’) is found to be a fruitful counter to Western ideology.
Artificial and animal life are identified as ‘entangled’ in Chapter Four in children’s books The Wild Robot by Peter Brown, Tin by Pádraig Kenny, and Wildspark by Vashti Hardy. The so-called ‘dark matter’ that is consciousness, or the ‘ghost in the machine’, is explored here and a further possibility for undoing the ‘persistent Cartesian dualism that constrains understandings of life and mind’ (122). Chapter Four thinks about the oceans of the ‘ecoweird’ in Frances Hardinge’s Deeplight and Sam Gayton’s The Last Zoo. The alien minds encountered there offer further means for exploring ‘the mystery of consciousness’ (126). The final chapter looks at plant life: ‘the proliferation of plant and fungal life in devastated environments both supports and complicates such narratives of youth agency, entangling children in more-than-human processes of materialization’ (20). The texts covered here are dystopian climate novels: Sita Brahmachari’s Where the River Runs and Lauren James’s Green Rising. In many ways, this chapter is the culmination of all that has gone before. In these novels, ‘the imagined agency of young people on which these hopeful climate futures rely is made possible through characters’ interrelationship with plants, trees, and fungi’ (159). The book is imbued with scientific knowledge and thought. As Germaine puts it: ‘Throughout this book, the concepts of ecology and entanglement entwine, and the readings of Fantastika seek to emphasise the ongoing conditions of violence and vulnerability, intimacy and estrangement, symbiosis and parasitism that are entailed in the making and unmaking of the phenomena, and, concomitantly, of the world’ (25).
Germaine acknowledges an ethical responsibility in writing the book. The way texts are approached enables new possibilities: ‘Paying attention to the entanglements entailed in the worldings of Fantastika is one way of considering this potential, and of imagining new modes of sociability and politics’ (28). Great claims are made for genres brought together under the term Fantastika which are justified in the ensuing discussions: ‘Fantastika has, since the eighteenth century, anticipated the posthuman turn, intimated ecological anxiety, and negotiated the shifts in consciousness of the human-planet relationship prompted by developments in science and industry’ (29). Fantastika ‘itself explores the intersection of science, philosophy, social theory, and politics’ (31). Germaine offers a ‘diffractive reading’ of the texts that follows, using a term more commonly associated with quantum physics.
It is refreshing to read a book that is determined to show how texts ‘matter’ in all senses of this word. The book contributes to our field by reading ‘literary criticism, philosophy, and science through one another and through the novels’ it encounters (33). I enjoyed reading it very much.
Sharon Ruston, Lancaster University 
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<title>Job: Postdoctoral Fellowship in History & Philosophy of Science</title>
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The Royal Institution in London invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship position in the History & Philosophy of Science – to start between August and October 2024. Location: 21 Albemarle Street, London with the opportunity for some remote working Contract type: 2-year Fixed Term Contract, full-time, 35 hours per week Salary: £39,000 - £40,500 per annum. Additional £1,000 annual discretionary stipend for conference and archival research fees
Application Deadline: 9.00am on Tuesday 14 May 2024 The Fellowship is funded by the Philip Freer Trust and is non-renewable. This is an exciting new opportunity to complete publishable research, integrate into the history of science community and establish a programme of outreach activities. As successful applicant, you must be a researcher from the history of science community. You are eligible if you are a British citizen/national, regardless of where your doctorate was obtained. You may also apply if you have a doctorate from a UK university, but are not a British citizen, if you have the right to work in the UK. You must be of ‘Early Career Status’ meaning that you must apply within 5 years of the date of your successful viva voce examination (between 1 April 2019 and 1 April 2024). Background The Royal Institution (Ri) is an independent charity which has been connecting people with science for over 200 years. The Ri has inspired generations of scientists over the years whose discoveries have helped shape our modern world. In 1825 two lecture programmes were created – CHRISTMAS LECTURES and Friday Evening Discourse, which continue to the present day. Both these programmes are significant, not only for their longevity, but for the role they have played in science communication to audiences since 1825. The CHRISTMAS LECTURES were created specifically for a juvenile audience at a time when there was little scientific education for children. The Discourses were developed, before Peer Reviewing, as a way to highlight new and emerging scientific and cultural developments to the public, with many ‘firsts’ taking place in the Ri lecture as a result (e.g., display of photography, showing of moving images, recording and playback of sound, announcement of the discovery of the electron). While these anniversaries are uniquely the Ri’s, they have also gone beyond our walls. Many of the lectures from both programmes were undertaken by external scientists and figures from UK culture, rather than Ri employees, though the contribution of Faraday was very substantial. The programmes themselves reveal the nature of collaborative science and the need to work across organisations to inform the public about scientific developments. They vividly show the development of the Ri’s unparalleled expertise in public scientific demonstration. The start of the programmes in 1825 is very much the beginning of the story. The scientific and cultural developments that were demonstrated over the subsequent 200 years provide a wealth of material to be investigated, researched, and celebrated. You will: • lead research into the Royal Institution’s two prominent lecturing programmes first established in 1825, the Christmas Lecture and Discourse programmes. • communicate through academic networks and the production of papers/talks the history of science communication at the Royal Institution as part of our celebrations of the 200th anniversary of these lecture programmes. • work with colleagues and partners to assist with the development and implementation of outreach activities centred on these two anniversaries TO APPLY: Please download the job description and personal specification <a href="https://www.rigb.org/about-us/work-us/postdoctoral-freer-fellowship-history-philosophy-science">from the Ri website</a> and email the following to recruitment@ri.ac.uk • an up-to-date CV • Covering letter indicating how your previous experience relates to the role's person specification and the communication of science history. • A plan and proposal for an event/lecture organised to celebrate an aspect of the 200th anniversaries of the Christmas Lectures and Discourses or the history of science communication at the Ri. This plan can be accompanied by a video, not more than 2 minutes long. All written application materials should be in PDF format and all files should be clearly labelled to include your name and title of the document. Application Deadline: 9.00am on Tuesday 14 May 2024 Interviews are planned for: w/c 3 June 2024 If you have any questions you would like to ask before applying for this Fellowship, please contact Charlotte New (cnew@ri.ac.uk).
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<title>Being Human Festival 2024: Call for Applications (deadline: 12 April)</title>
<link>https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/03/being-human-festival-2024-call-for-applications-deadline-12-april/</link>
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Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Each year researchers and staff from universities and research organisations are invited to take part in our by organising a public engagement event or activity, rooted in humanities research.
This year’s festival will take place 7–16 November, with the theme ‘<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beinghumanfestival.org%2Fnews%2Flandmarks&data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.kistler%40strath.ac.uk%7Ca2f07b321e2146d443c608dc42a8d029%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638458540019387556%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MANwNxf37QXgfc3hEBvSyrDM0%2F5HUTDjNjbqMApbFzk%3D&reserved=0">Landmarks</a>’. The festival have funding grants on offer to enable public engagement activities to take place as part of the festival. Applicants based at UK Higher Education Institutions and AHRC-recognised independent research organisations are eligible to apply for this funding. All festival activities need to involve a <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beinghumanfestival.org%2Fget-involved%2Ffaqs%23what-do-you-mean-by-039professional-researcher039-and-why-does-every-event-need-to-have-one&data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.kistler%40strath.ac.uk%7Ca2f07b321e2146d443c608dc42a8d029%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638458540019399242%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nVLyijgy9yMcNKbmKHV%2Ba2WUR6IzGhD4Lb9JOqmMATk%3D&reserved=0">professional humanities researcher</a> in both the planning and delivery.
Funded pathways 
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<li>Institutional grants: £4,000–£8,000 to organise a Festival Hub (Deadline: Friday 12 April) </li>
<li>Festival Event grants: up to £4,000 to organise a single event or multiple events (Deadline: Friday 12 April)</li>
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Unfunded pathway
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<li>Festival Event: organise a festival event that does not require funding from Being Human (Deadline: Friday 7 June) </li>
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Further details, guidance, and answers to some frequently asked questions, are available on the festival's website: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beinghumanfestival.org%2Fget-involved&data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.kistler%40strath.ac.uk%7Ca2f07b321e2146d443c608dc42a8d029%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638458540019410413%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2%2FvyIERpK5%2BnvB7WqXcffNOUD4G5ZTeI7ck3J6C7yN4%3D&reserved=0" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="2">https://www.beinghumanfestival.org/get-involved</a>
Applying to Being Human Festival 2024 Webinar 
You can find out more about applying to the festival by watching the recording of our online information session ‘Applying to Being Human 2024’: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beinghumanfestival.org%2Fget-involved%2Fwebinar-2024&data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.kistler%40strath.ac.uk%7Ca2f07b321e2146d443c608dc42a8d029%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638458540019417754%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=23rt0FqIZF3b8MCgnLEFVxc3KYgqRHqaZ0Pf7h3C69g%3D&reserved=0" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="3">https://www.beinghumanfestival.org/get-involved/webinar-2024</a>
 
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<title>Call for Chapters: Romantic Trees</title>
<link>https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/03/call-for-chapters-romantic-trees/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 08:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum, 1740-1840 Edited by Anna Burton and Amanda Blake Davis (University of Derby) The editors invite chapters on individual tree species that are non-native to the British Isles, and also conceptual chapters that address Romantic trees beyond a single identifiable species. They are keen to include chapters by BIPOC authors; postgraduate […]]]></description>
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Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum, 1740-1840
Edited by Anna Burton and Amanda Blake Davis (University of Derby)
The editors invite chapters on individual tree species that are non-native to the British Isles, and also conceptual chapters that address Romantic trees beyond a single identifiable species. They are keen to include chapters by BIPOC authors; postgraduate and early researchers; and chapters that address Global Romantic texts and themes. Interested authors are encouraged to get in touch with any questions.
Abstracts of 200 words should be emailed to the the editors: Anna Burton (<a href="mailto:a.burton@derby.ac.uk">a.burton@derby.ac.uk</a>) and Amanda Blake Davis (<a href="mailto:a.davis2@derby.ac.uk">a.davis2@derby.ac.uk</a>) by 29 April 2024. First drafts of complete essays of 6000-7000 words, including notes and references, will be due 27th January 2025.
Collection Prospectus:

Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum, 1740-1840 will explore literary responses to a range of individual trees and tree species and the network of international contexts within which they were viewed. The Romantic-period focus of this edited collection will culminate in 1840 with the opening of the first public arboretum, Derby Arboretum. The arboretum, though a man-made space that groups trees formally, is also an environment in which more can be understood about the biodiversity and individuality of all trees on an interconnected, global scale. Grounded in the literature of the Romantic period, this project proposes that the ‘arboretum’, a term coined by John Claudius Loudon in 1838, is implicit within Romantic writers’ interest in specific trees. Rather than concentrating on an author-specific and/or particular thematic approach, our ‘arboretum’ will form a collection of essays, each one focussing on the significance and cultural history of a particular tree species, during this period.
Whilst the Romantic ideation of ‘Nature’ is a heavily traversed, broad-ranging topic, the arboreal lens of The Literary Arboretum will offer a new way of thinking about Romanticism and nature specifically through literary responses to trees in literature of the Romantic period (c.1740-1840). This collection will build upon existing studies that explore the significance of particular tree specimens for notable Romantic writers; see, for example, Tim Fulford’s study of William Wordsworth’s ‘Yew-trees’ (1995), Fiona Stafford’s analysis of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Only Tree’, the Birch (2021), Frederike Middelhoff’s study of ‘Romantic poplar writing’ (2022), and Peter Dale and Brandon C. Yen’s attention to Wordsworth’s trees (2022). In response to landmark works on arboreal ecology by Suzanne Simard and Peter Wohlleben (2021, 2016), much of the current scholarship in the newly burgeoning field of the arboreal humanities values the community and interconnectedness of trees. This collection will foster such a perspective in the field of Romantic Studies by thinking about arboreal biodiversity and individuality in the Romantic imagination through the ‘literary arboretum’.
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<title>Postdoc: Women Poets Inspired by the Sciences (University of Lille)</title>
<link>https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/03/postdoc-women-poets-inspired-by-the-sciences-university-of-lille/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 08:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position from 2 September 2024 to develop the research project WISE (Women Poets Inspired by the Sciences since the Romantic Era), funded by the University of Lille’s “Initiative d’Excellence”. The closing date for applications is 22 April 2024. Candidates selected for interviews who do not reside in France may […]]]></description>
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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position from 2 September 2024 to develop the research project WISE (Women Poets Inspired by the Sciences since the Romantic Era), funded by the University of Lille’s “Initiative d’Excellence”.
The closing date for applications is 22 April 2024. 
Candidates selected for interviews who do not reside in France may request online interviews. We anticipate that interviews will take place between 10 and 18 June 2024.
 
Further Particulars: 

Job Type: Postdoctoral Researcher
Contract type: Temporary
Academic Discipline: English Literature 
Required Qualifications: A PhD in English Studies
Employer: Université de Lille (<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finternational.univ-lille.fr%2Fen%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cjordan.kistler%40strath.ac.uk%7Ca30b5330c5d64e188e3808dc4292600a%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638458443646034422%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FAKPs8xvvOpGkdiAbF43LIPhBPCE%2BGzg8i9oTgm86nw%3D&reserved=0">https://international.univ-lille.fr/en/</a>)
Location: Campus Pont de Bois, Villeneuve d’Acsq, France
Salary: Based on the salary scale of French universities: “brut salary” between 2360 € and 2834 € per month.
Hours: Full Time
Starting Date: 2 September 2024
The successful candidate will be appointed full-time for twelve months, renewable once, and will be affiliated to the CÉCILLE research centre (https://cecille.univ-lille.fr/). 
 
Please submit
(1) A CV
(2) A cover letter in connection with the WISE project (3 pages max.) 
(3) A copy of your PhD degree
(4) A short example of individual written work (article, chapter, &c)
All documents must be sent in one PDF to the following addresses: <a href="mailto:sophie.musitelli@univ-lille.fr">sophie.musitelli@univ-lille.fr</a> and <a href="mailto:bruno.legrand@univ-lille.fr">bruno.legrand@univ-lille.fr</a>
 
Required Skills: 
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<li>Doctoral qualification in anglophone literature; applications are particularly encouraged from those whose work involves poetry and/or British literature. </li>
<li>Excellent written and spoken skills in English and in French.</li>
<li>The ability to conduct field research (archives, interviews &c). </li>
<li>Experience in the digital processing of collected data, or willingness to train in this area. </li>
</ul>
 
Description of the Project:
WISE explores the contact areas between poetic writing and scientific discourse through the perspectives of women, who were long deprived of a formal scientific education. It focuses on the intensely imaginative and creative engagement British women poets have had with the objects, methods and languages of the sciences, and with their philosophical and political implications. It ranges from late 18th-century poetesses to contemporary voices that perpetuate the questionings opened during the Romantic Era, an age of political, scientific and aesthetic revolutions when disciplinary boundaries were redrawn. The project takes Britain as its epicenter, but also aims to draw a series of comparisons with women poets from other anglophone countries, in order to examine the ways in which the aesthetic possibilities awakened by these revolutions rippled across the English-speaking world through complex filiations. It will develop along four lines: (1) the relationship to scientific authority and power, (2) the imagination of the gendered body in a creative and often subversive dialogue with the life sciences, (3) the material practices and technologies available to women, and (4) writing in the Anthropocene.
 
The successful applicant will be expected to work in collaboration with the project coordinator on the following aspects of the project: 
(1) complement and stabilize the corpus of primary sources – in particular locate and digitalize some of the unpublished or unavailable material in the main corpus (poems) as well as additional primary sources (letters, journals, field notes…) – and conduct interviews with poetesses; 
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<li>This will involve research trips for which the successful candidate will be allocated a research grant. </li>
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(2) review secondary sources; 
(3) analyze the poems, the complementary material and the interviews. This will provide the basis for the creation of a database of digitized poems and additional resources (letters, field notes, diaries, etc.).
(4) contribute to the organization of scientific events in connection with the project.
 

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<title>BSLS Executive Committee Vacancies</title>
<link>https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/03/bsls-executive-committee-vacancies/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The BSLS Executive Committee will have vacancies in the following roles: Chair, Secretary, Membership Secretary, Member at Large, and Overseas Representative (North America). Contact the current chair (jennihalpin at gmail dot com) with queries. Send nominations to the current chair and to the treasurer (bsls.treasurer at gmail dot com), ideally by 31 March.]]></description>
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The BSLS Executive Committee will have vacancies in the following roles: Chair, Secretary, Membership Secretary, Member at Large, and Overseas Representative (North America). Contact the current chair (jennihalpin at gmail dot com) with queries. Send nominations to the current chair and to the treasurer (bsls.treasurer at gmail dot com), ideally by 31 March.
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<title>One week left to register to attend the BSLS conference in person</title>
<link>https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/03/one-week-left-to-register-to-attend-the-bsls-conference-in-person/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The deadline for registration to attend the International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science on 10-12 April at the University of Birmingham in person is 17 March. To download the provisional programme, follow this link. You can register via the website or directly here. Online registration will remain open for a few more […]]]></description>
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The deadline for registration to attend the International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science on 10-12 April at the University of Birmingham in person is 17 March. To download the provisional programme, follow this <a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/events/2024/international-conference-of-three-societies-on-literature-and-science">link</a>.
You can register via the website or directly <a href="https://shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-arts-law/school-of-english-drama-american-canadian-studies/international-conference-of-three-societies-on-literature-and-science">here</a>.
Online registration will remain open for a few more weeks.
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