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Online Symposium: Climate Change: Stories from the Front Line
The Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit) and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA) are hosting an online symposium on Climate Change: Stories from the Front Line on Saturday 29 November with speakers from countries around the world. To see the programme and register to attend free of charge, please follow this…
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Call for Papers – BSLS Winter Symposium January 30th 2026: Alternate Histories of the Body
In recent years, diverse fields related to literature and science studies, such as the medical humanities, critical neurodiversity studies, and the study of the haptic, have been re-evaluating the human body, its histories, and the impact of those histories today. At the same time, fields such as feminist theory, critical race theory, trans studies, and disability studies have…
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Workshop: Imagining Ethical Horizons (Cambridge, 29 October)
Imagining Ethical Horizons Old Laboratories, Newnham College, Cambridge 29 October, 10 – 4:30 What if we solved the energy crisis and deployed nuclear fusion energy production at scale? What if we could now universally recycle everything we use? What if we solved world hunger by creating a single complete daily nutrition pill? What if we…
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Living with the planet LATE – Thu 9 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 21:30
Tackle big questions and explore bold ideas about the future of our planet in this season’s British Academy LATE. Join us for a vibrant evening of talks, workshops, performances, and exhibits that examine our evolving connection with the natural world – and discover how innovative research in the humanities and social sciences can help us…
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The English Association Webinar for Teachers – The Science of Poetry: Crossing the arts/science divide in schools (23 September 2025, 16:45 – 17:30)
The Humphry Davy Notebooks: Resources for bringing together the English Literature and Science curriculums This webinar will introduce resources on the poetry of famous scientist Sir Humphry Davy, developed through a collaboration between the Humphry Davy Notebooks Project at Lancaster University and STEM Learning. These resources are ideal for teachers to show the cross-curricular links…
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CfP BSLS Conference 2026
The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person). The BSLS invites proposals for twenty-minute papers, or panels of three papers, or roundtables, on any subjects within the field of literature (broadly defined to include theatre, film, and television)…
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CFP: Energy Ecologies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: 1500 to the Present
A special Focus Section for Anglistik (summer 2027, vol. 38, no. 2) edited by Paul Hamann-Rose and Kai Merten At a time of environmental, economic and energetic crisis, humanity’s continuing dependence on fossil fuels has come to the forefront of cultural debate (Mitchell 2011, Boyer 2014, Moore 2015, Malm 2016, Scott 2018). The emerging field…
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BSLS/JLS Essay Prize: Winner Announced
The BSLS and the JLS are very pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s essay prize is Sina Schuhmaier for her essay “Subject Formation in the Early Black Atlantic: Disease Narratives of the Middle Passage”. The panel particularly commends the essay’s balance of scientific and medical history with wider questions about temporality, history,…
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Call for Papers: Poetry and Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment
University of York, 26th-27th June 2026 Keynote: Katie Murphy. Confirmed Speakers include: Liza Blake, Tita Chico, Jonathan Sawday, Helen Smith, Lizzie Swann We invite proposals for the final conference of the AHRC-DFG project, ‘Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, 1580-1750’. From the late 16th and on into…
