Author: bsls
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CFP: Beastly Modernisms, Glasgow, September 2019
Please click through for links to the full CFP Beastly Moderisms and Call for Poems Beastly Modernisms
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DEADLINE APPROACHING ‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care 1800-1948’
University of Nottingham, Humanities Building, Friday 11 January 2019, 10.00 – 16.00. Keynote speaker: Professor Christine Hallett (University of Huddersfield) This one-day workshop seeks to bring together researchers with an interest in the history and representations of healthcare, medicine, nursing, hospitals, and public health in the UK between 1800 and 1948, with a particular focus…
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BSLS Winter Symposium – Registration Open
Registration is now open for the symposium: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsls-winter-symposium-2018-tickets-52160049111 There is also a draft programme on the website.
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CFP: Global Genetic Fictions, Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds, 25-26 April 2019
As genetic science develops at breakneck speed, cultural representations register in their form and content changing ideas about the self and personhood, consciousness, behaviour and motivation, heredity, and the boundaries of the human body. And yet, ‘western’ science is only one of a number of frameworks that provide explanations for these phenomena. Knowledge, assumptions and…
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Full Moon: A Night of Poetry and Science
***50% discount available to BSLS members***. An unmissable evening where poetry and science meet and share a stage, a night that will sparkle with readings and short talks, when we will hear the poetry of science and see how the scientific entreprise opens up realms of poetry. Join us on this epic journey of…
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TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Project between the University of Roehampton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew’s imperial archive: Cataloguing Economic Botany in the Miscellaneous Reports, 1841-1928 This studentship offers the opportunity to research and study the history, composition and arrangement of a major collection held in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: the…
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‘Men and Beasts’, Seminar with Maureen Duffy, 24th October.
On Wednesday 24th October, Maureen Duffy, D.Litt, King’s Fellow, author and pioneering activist will read several pieces from her own work, followed by a Q and A session. All welcome. 6-7:30pm, S8.08, Department of History, Strand Campus, King’s College London. Further information can be found at – https://animalhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ or by emailing animalhistorygroup@gmail.com No need to book,…
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EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP: BSLS Winter Symposium 2018: Environments of Literature and Science
Date: Saturday 24th November 2018 (10:00 – 18:00) Location: Cardiff University Organisers: Joan Passey (Exeter, jp374@exeter.ac.uk), Louise Benson-James (Bristol, louise.bensonjames@bristol.ac.uk), Jim Scown (Cardiff, scownj@cardiff.ac.uk) Keynote: ‘Biggish Data: Friedrich Engels, Material Ecology, and Victorian Data’ by John Parham, University of Worcester The Environmental Humanities have gained momentum relatively recently, contributing to developing theories of the Anthropocene, responding to rapid changes in climate, and…
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BSLS/JLS ECR Essay Prize 2018 – The Results
We are delighted to announce that the British Society for Literature and Science and Journal of Literature and Science prize for an essay by an early-career scholar has been won by Lara Choksey for her essay “Peripheral Adaptation: Living with Climate Change in Doris Lessing’s The Making of the Representative for Planet 8”. We offer our congratulations to Lara…
