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Dear BSLS Colleagues: best wishes to you in the ongoing year! Already it is time for me to call for articles for the BSLS newsletter. Please share science and literature news, be it reports on events, calls for papers, publications, degrees conferred, or other wonderful things I have failed to imagine. Send your files to…

The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, “Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World”. In recent years, the history of philosophy has been transformed through the recovery of early modern women philosophers, revaluing the forms they used and contexts in which they operated…

The 2026 edition of the BioCriticism webinar proposes interdisciplinary approaches to “Health Across Scales”. Each 90-120 minute session consists of two or three talks followed by discussion. We continue to meet on zoom at 2 pm Central European Time. Abstracts, links, biographies and information about the webinar are available here. All are welcome. BioCriticism – 2026 – Health…

Nominations for this year’s BSLS Book Prize are now open. Publishers and BSLS Members can nominate any book published in the 2025 calendar year. Nominations are open until 31st December. For more info see our book prize page: https://www.bsls.ac.uk/prizes/bsls-book-prize/

British Society for the History of Science Online Lecture by Hughes Prize Winner Renée Bergland Join us for a special online lecture with Renée Bergland, winner of the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize, as she discusses her award-winning book Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science (Princeton University Press). In Natural Magic, Bergland explores the intertwined…

CFP: Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World Conference at the University of Amsterdam Monday, 15 June 2026 How do material conditions shape how and what we know about the natural world? In this conference, we propose to bring together scholars working in the history of science and literature and science to consider these…

Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850  Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026   Dreams hang on every leaf: unearthly forms Glide through the gloom; and mystic visions swim Before the cheated sense. – Anna Letitia Barbauld, ‘To Mr. C[oleridge]’   Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones,…

The Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit) and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA) are hosting an online symposium on Climate Change: Stories from the Front Line on Saturday 29 November with speakers from countries around the world. To see the programme and register to attend free of charge, please follow this…

In recent years, diverse fields related to literature and science studies, such as the medical humanities, critical neurodiversity studies, and the study of the haptic, have been re-evaluating the human body, its histories, and the impact of those histories today. At the same time, fields such as feminist theory, critical race theory, trans studies, and disability studies have…

Imagining Ethical Horizons Old Laboratories, Newnham College, Cambridge 29 October, 10 – 4:30 What if we solved the energy crisis and deployed nuclear fusion energy production at scale?  What if we could now universally recycle everything we use? What if we solved world hunger by creating a single complete daily nutrition pill? What if we…