Author: bsls
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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 Essays should be currently unpublished and…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…
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Animal Utterance: 25th – 26th May 2017, University of Bristol
The cognitive biologist, W. Tecumseh Fitch begins The Evolution of Language (2010) with the Persian tale of the ‘elephant in the dark house’: each villager touches a different part of the animal and tries to describe what its shape is ‘like’, but none can see, or comprehend, the whole. This parable, as Fitch suggests, raises…
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Science Fiction Foundation
The Science Fiction Foundation began in 1971 at the former North East London Polytechnic with the joint aim of promoting academic research into sf and greater public understanding of the genre. It has since become a UK-wide network of academics, critics and professional writers with its nominal base at the University of Liverpool, home to…
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BSLS Book Prize Winner 2016
The winner of the 2016 Book Prize is Ursula K. Heise’s Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (University of Chicago Press). This remarkable, lucid examination of how contemporary culture produces understandings of imperilled nature breaks new ground in its thinking about environmental crisis — local and global — and, particularly, the terms in…
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Collective Knowledge: Museums, Scientific Inquiry, and Literature
This trans-Atlantic, 2-panel event pairs a panel at the British Society of Literature and Science (BSLS) in Bristol in April 2017 with a roundtable at the annual conference of the Association of Community College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) at the Congress of Learned Societies in Toronto in May 2017. Four papers were…
