Author: bsls
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BSLS Annual Conference 2027: Call for Papers
The twenty-second annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities from Thursday 1st to Saturday 3rd April 2027 (in person). Our keynote speakers will include Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) and Rosalind Powell (University of Amsterdam). The BSLS invites proposals…
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New Book: Innovations in the Modern Arts and Sciences Explaining Lasting Change in Novelty-Driven Cultural Fields By Richard Whitley and Jochen Gläser
Whitley, Richard and Jochen Gläser (2026). Innovations in the Modern Arts and Sciences: Explaining Lasting Change in Novelty- Driven Cultural Fields. Bristol University Press,https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/innovations-in-the-modern-arts-and-sciences [bristoluniversitypress.co.uk]. 2026. DOI: 10.51952/9781529239393. The modern arts and sciences are fields of cultural production in which the creation of original works has become an everyday activity generating a large variety of novel outputs. However,…
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Special Issue Call for Papers – Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies
Special Issue Call for Papers Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies Guest editors: Simona Bartolotta, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen; Adele Guyton, UCLouvain; Ciarán Kavanagh, Ghent University Neohelicon invites article submissions for a special issue on “Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies.” The relationship between aesthetic form and its instrumental functions…
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BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium Call for Papers
Occult Science: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and the Persistence of Wonder 29 January 2027 – Online Despite enduring narratives that cast modern science as the agent of rationalisation, the relationship between scientific knowledge and the occult has never been a simple story of succession or exclusion. In recent years, scholarly discourse has increasingly challenged this presumed binary,…
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2026 Winner of the BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize
Many congratulations to Daniel Bowman, for his winning essay “Coach Dog to Automobile Dog: Canines in Literature and Car Culture.” The essay explores the nonhuman animals at the heart of the transition from horse-drawn carriage to automobile, for whom the arrival of the motorcar marked displacement rather than progress. Scholars of animal studies and the…
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CfP – Theatre About Science: Knowledge, Engagement and Action
CALL FOR PAPERS Theatre About Science: Knowledge, Engagement and Action Co-editors: Mário Montenegro, Fernando Matos Oliveira, Clara Barata, Sara Varela Amaral, Ana Santos Carvalho, Catarina Seabra, João Gaspar, Silvia P. Carballo, Francisca Moreira Following on from the Theatre About Science International Conference 2025, and as in previous years, we are opening a call for papers for…
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Journal of Literature and Science: Call for Reviewers
CALL FOR REVIEWERS: PUBLISH WITH US Journal of Literature and Science The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is looking for reviewers to review various articles published in the last year to 18 months in the field of literature and science. Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for…
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RA Role: Mary Shelley
Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of English is seeking to appoint an outstanding Research Associate to support the project: The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley, edited by Professor Sharon Ruston and Professor Daniel Cook and scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press between 2028 and 2035. This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career researcher with…
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Research Associate: ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 – Present’
Posting on behalf of Dr Francesca Mackenney Research Associate: ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 – Present’ – (9221) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers Manchester Metropolitan University is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral Research Associate in History (full-time, 3 years) to join the team for Dr Francesca Mackenney’s Leverhulme-funded project, ‘The Making of Natural History, 1797 -…
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Postdoc in “Science Narratives”, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg
The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fresh frameworks of thinking for the humanities and social sciences, and works to develop the modern, integrated, and broadly interdisciplinary approach that is…
