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  • BSLS/JLS Essay Prize: Winner Announced

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    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,…

  • Workshop: Imagining Ethical Horizons, Sept 9, University of Strathclyde

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    September 9, 2025, 10am – 4:30pm University of Strathclyde, Glasgow As part of the Collaborative Cultures Programme at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), ‘Imagining Ethical Horizons’ seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore how science fiction can help us imaginatively address global challenges. What if we solved the energy crisis and…

  • Call for Papers: Poetry and Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment

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    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…

  • CfP: Made in Class. Literary Education in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Europe Conference

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    Made in Class. Literary Education in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Europe Conference 3-5 December 2025 Literary and Cultural Studies Research Unit, Arts Faculty, KU Leuven MDRN Research Lab KU Leuven Full CfP here

  • Winter Symposium 2025 – Call for Organisers

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    The British Society for Literature and Science seeks organisers for its annual Winter Symposium. Proposals are invited from PGRs and ECRs for a one-day online event on a discrete theme to take place in or around November 2025. Proposals are due by Friday, July 18, 2025. Previous themes have included: · Fat Fictions (2024/5) ·…

  • Passion for Poison: The real science of Agatha Christie – Event at the Royal Institution

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    Passion for Poison: The real science of Agatha Christie – Monday 23rd June 2025 at the Royal Institution, London Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books, using poisons more accurately than any other crime writer. But how is it that some chemicals in such small quantities…

  • Call for Reviewers

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    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…

  • 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…

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