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  • 16th May BioCriticism webinar – The biodiversity of neglected spaces in poetry and art curation

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    Please join us for the next BioCriticism webinar:   The biodiversity of neglected spaces in poetry and art curation 16th of May 2025 at 14-15:30 Central European Time (13-14:30 British Time) a BioCriticism webinar with Jonathan Skinner, Martin Grünfeld and Simone Cecilie Pedersen Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84523330019?pwd=NDCbZZV8GsF9cCsmjz7gAd0cBl29ll.1 Meeting ID: 845 2333 0019 Passcode: 982651 First…

  • 25th April BioCriticism webinar – Can participatory art and science help us see biodiversity?

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    Please join us for the next BioCriticism webinar on participatory performances and citizen cyberscience: Can participatory art and science help us see biodiversity? 25th of April 2025 at 14-15:30 Central European Time a BioCriticism webinar with Eliane Beaufils and Shannon Lambert Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83110973753?pwd=fbEJsj4tAyLKK9hahWeCoLA7XeaHqK.1 Meeting ID: 831 1097 3753 Passcode: 187669   Speaker 1. Prof. Eliane…

  • Call for entries: 2025 BSLS/JLS Essay Prize

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    The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science are pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 competition for the best new essay by an early career scholar or postgraduate student on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. Starting…

  • Call for Crowdsourcing Participants: Picturing Pennant

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    Would you like to help the Curious Travellers project create an innovative online edition of arguably the most important travel books ever written about Wales and Scotland? ‘Picturing Pennant’ is a crowdsourcing project, run in collaboration with the National Library of Wales crowdsourcing team and the University of Glasgow. Focusing on Thomas Pennant’s eighteenth-century tours in Wales and…

  • Neglected Biodiversity in Kitchens and Fictions – March 28th BioCriticism webinar

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    The 2025 BioCriticism webinar proposes interdisciplinary approaches to “Biodiversity and Neglect in Art and Science”. Each 90-minute session consists of two twenty-minute talks followed by discussion. Please join us for the first session on Neglected biodiversity in kitchens and fictions  on 28 March 2025 at 14-15:30 Central European Time First speaker: Prof. Marko Rohlfs (Chemical…

  • CFP: Aesthetics of the Clinic (11 June 2025, Cambridge)

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     This one-day symposium draws together scholars working at the intersection of literature, aesthetics and mental health to prompt a discussion on the relationship between psychiatric institutions and the production of literature. We ask: how does the space of the psychiatric clinic and innovations in psychiatry generate new literary and aesthetic production and how does that production respond to, reproduce or contest psychiatric space,…

  • CFP: Women’s Scientific Literatures (Anglia Ruskin, 26-27 June)

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    Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy   26–27th June 2025, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Deadline for submissions: Monday 3rd March 2025 Contact email: WomensScientificLiteratures@gmail.com   The international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Anglia Ruskin University; University of…

  • New Members of the BSLS Executive Committee Wanted!

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    We are seeking to fill at least three impending vacancies on the Executive Committee at the April Annual General Meeting, including: Communications Officer Member at Large Overseas Representative(s) (Europe and/or elsewhere—we are open to suggestion) Any member of the BSLS is eligible to be nominated for (and serve in) an open post, except that it…

  • New Seminar Series: Crude Representation: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil

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    We are delighted to share details of Crude Representation: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, an online seminar series that will run from February to April 2025. Each event will feature three speakers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. All events are free to attend. You can register to attend via Eventbrite. Crude Representations Seminar 1:…

  • BioCriticism webinar 2025 – Biodiversity and Neglect in Art and Science

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    The 2025 edition of the BioCriticism webinar proposes interdisciplinary approaches to “Biodiversity and Neglect in Art and Science”. Each 90-minute session consists of two twenty-minute talks followed by discussion. We continue to meet on zoom at 2 pm Central European Time. Abstracts, biographies and information about the webinar are available here. The zoom link will be…

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