Author: bsls
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Call for Papers JLS/CONFIGURATIONS “DOUBLE ISSUE”
THE STATE OF THE UNIONS What are the relations between literature, science and the arts within our field today? This special double issue marks a unique collaboration between the Journal of Literature and Science and Configurations. The first instalment – JLS 10:1 – was published this year and can be read here. We now invite…
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CFP BSLS Winter Symposium: Metaphor in Literature and Science
BSLS Winter Symposium: Metaphor in Literature and Science – King’s College London, Saturday November 4, 2017 Keynote speaker: Professor Alice Jenkins, University of Glasgow The aim of this symposium is to re-examine the role of metaphor in literature and science studies in the light of new developments and questions in the field. The study of metaphor…
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CFP: J.G. Ballard and the Sciences
A one-day international and cross-disciplinary conference exploring the intersections of the work of J.G. Ballard and the sciences. 25 November 2017 LAB 109, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Key Note Speaker: Christopher Priest Hosted by the Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy (CSFF) “Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate…
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JLS: CALL FOR REVIEWERS
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 in the Journal. The list is by no…
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CFP: British Literature and Sociology, 1838-1910
Though Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel are generally regarded as the “founders” of sociology as a discipline, sociological theory was actually rooted in nineteenth-century culture as intellectuals and scientists attempted to make sense of the political, economic, and social dislocations brought about by the Industrial and French Revolutions. Auguste Comte (who coined the term…
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Humphry Davy: Laughing gas, literature and the lamp
BSLS members will remember Professor Sharon Ruston’s excellent plenary lecture on Davy at our 2016 conference in Birmingham. Sharon’s new 4-week MOOC, Humphry Davy: Laughing Gas, Literature, and the Lamp, starts on 30 October. The course draws on her research as co-editor of Davy’s Collected Letters and her work on Romantic-era literature and science, and is…
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BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 11th August 2017
*Reminder* Following the success of the JLS/BSLS essay prize in previous years, The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science would like to announce the 2017 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and…
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BSLS Small Grants and Postgraduate Conference Fund
Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st September 2017. For more information on how to apply and on past awards, please visit our funding page.
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Birds in Literature Exhibition event
Free tickets are still available for this special event at Brighton’s Booth Museum of Natural History on Thursday evening, which marks the opening of a new exhibition on birds in literature. ‘Flying off the Page: Birds in Literature, Victorian Era to the Present’ will explore how birds have been depicted in literature and culture over…
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Mediating Climate Change
4 – 6 July 2017 University of Leeds Call for Registration: Mediating Climate Change is an international, multidisciplinary conference taking place at Leeds University, 4th-6th July 2017. This major environmental humanities conference will cross disciplines and periods to analyse the ways in which human beings have tried to make sense of climate change. What difficulties are…
