Author: bsls
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BSLS Book Prize 2018
Nominations are now being accepted for the BSLS Book Prize 2018. Inaugurated in 2007, the annual British Society for Literature and Science book prize is awarded for the best book in the field of literature and science published that year. Any book is eligible, but can only be considered if it is nominated either by…
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‘Humphry Davy: Laughing gas, literature and the lamp’
Free online course (MOOC) starting 29 October 2018 – Open to all Sign up today at http://www.futurelearn.com/courses/humphry-davy The MOOC is intended for anyone with an interest in Humphry Davy, or early nineteenth-century literature, science, or history. It will explore some of the most significant moments of Davy’s life and career, including his childhood in Cornwall,…
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‘Frankenstein at 200’, a Public Event in the city of Lincoln
Venue: the Lincoln Drill Hall, Free School Lane, Lincoln. LN2 1EY Date: 31st October 2018 (9.30am-4pm) Keynote speaker: Professor Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia) Ticket price: £7.50 (including a light lunch). Available from http://lncn.eu/frank In celebration of the bi-centenary of the publication of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the University…
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CFP ‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care 1800-1948’
‘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) For further details see the CfP
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The Fates of Frankenstein: Edinburgh Napier University, 23-24 November 2018
Brighten those dreary nights in November with a visit to Edinburgh and the lively Fates of Frankenstein conference: this is a 2-day conference about Frankenstein’s legacies in popular culture. We are thrilled to be hosting keynote speakers Dr Daniel Cook, University of Dundee, and Professor Catherine Spooner, University of Lancaster. For the full programme and…
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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,…
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Call for Papers: MLA International Symposium – Deadline: 21 Sep 2018
https://symposium.mla.org/lisbon/remembering-voices-lost/
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 31st August 2018
For those intending to submit an entry for this year’s essay prize, the JLS website is currently unavailable for technical reasons and is unlikely to be back online before the 31st August deadline. If you would like to view sample essays which have won the prize in previous years you may do so through the following…
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CFP: ‘The Disease of Caring’: Medical Professionals and Activism from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Friday 26 October 2018 School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London Supported by the Birkbeck/Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund and the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies Keynote speaker: Dr Anne Hanley (Birkbeck) In In Darkest London (1891), Margaret Harkness’s popular novel about activism to alleviate poverty conditions in late nineteenth-century London, a doctor practising…
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Call for Reviewers – Journal of Literature and Science
The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is once again looking for reviewers to review various articles in the field of literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for review. The list is by no means definitive; there’s…
