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Please join us for the next session of the BioCriticism webinar, “Imagining the Holobiont”, with guest speakers Kristien Hens (ethics and philosophy) and Joana Formosinho (art-science). The 2026 BioCriticism webinar series offers interdisciplinary approaches to “Health across Scales”. Guest speakers discuss how scientists, writers, and artists imagine the networks and dynamics that shape health across scales,…

Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries This project draws on East Anglia’s remarkable entomology collections and archives, which hold exceptional potential for humanities research. The region is of current and historical national significance for entomology because of its historically diverse habitats, yet has also suffered one…

Ahead of the 2026 annual conference in Strathclyde, we are seeking expressions of interest and nominations for two positions on the executive committee: Treasurer and Book Reviews Editor. The Treasurer role must be held by a member living in the UK so that they can become signatory to the society’s bank account. Ideally, we would…

deadline for submissions:  May 4, 2026 (room to negotiate individual extensions of up to 3 months) full name / name of organization:  Science Fiction Foundation contact email:  paulmarchrussell@gmail.com 2026 marks the centenary of Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories, the first anglophone magazine devoted to what Gernsback originally called ‘scientifiction’. To commemorate and critically explore what many…

The 2026 BioCriticism webinar series offers interdisciplinary approaches to “Health across Scales”. Guest speakers will discuss how scientists, writers, and artists imagine the networks and dynamics that shape health across scales, from the microbial to the planetary. Each session consists of two talks followed by discussion. Please join us for the next session with Jim…

Tuesday, Mar 3 from 6 pm to 8 pm (in person) The IAS welcomes Niall Sreenan for the launch of his book Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel. Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction. Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution began a revolution in thought, displacing the human from the centre of the natural order and…

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 By Joseph Fletcher Anthem Press William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake’s wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing. Blake’s poetry and…

Secrecy in Literature and Culture (Edinburgh University Press) Series Editors: Simon Cooke (University of Edinburgh) and Natalie Ferris (University of Bristol) We invite proposals for critical studies exploring the pivotal role of secrecy in literature and culture, with interdisciplinary, international and transhistorical scope. The ‘secret’ is a concept of pivotal importance across a range of disciplines…

See the full call for contributions to this edited volume here.