Author: bsls

  • CFP Imagining Communities. How learned collectives have formed themselves through literary means

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    Panel session at the 12th Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science 6-8 April 2017, University of Bristol   In Imagined Communities (1983) Benedict Anderson famously argued that the idea of the nation, and national belonging, first developed with the rise of news periodicals and new ways of story-telling in novels. Readers…

  • CFP Gut Feeling: Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Culture

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    An interdisciplinary workshop, 26-27 May 2017, University of Aberdeen Gut health has become a buzzword in contemporary culture. Ground-breaking research is pointing to potential links between the gut and such diverse areas as our mood, weight, and thought processes. The current debates on the digestive system and our physical and mental health, however, are not…

  • BSLS Book Prize 2016

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    Nominations for The British Society for Literature and Science book prize 2016 are now being sought. All nominated books must be dated 2016 and should be academic titles (usually monographs or essay collections) in the area of literature and science (including technology and medicine, in all periods). The prize is not open to creative writing.…

  • Call for papers for a collection of essays “Can It Be?”: Representations of Science in 21st-Century Fiction

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    As the third millennium progresses, science and technology more than ever govern human lives, and the topic of science and/in fiction shows no signs of decline, neither in terms of artistic production nor as an area of critical inquiry. As several critical accounts of the field of 21st century literature note, writers address contemporary issues…

  • CFP: The British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference

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    University of Bristol, 6-8 April 2017 ONE MONTH LEFT TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACTS! The twelfth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Bristol, from Thursday 6 April until Saturday 8 April 2017. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Professor…

  • 2017: A Clarke Odyssey

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    A Conference Marking the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK Saturday 9 December 2017 Keynote Speakers: Stephen Baxter Dr Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge) Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most important British sf writers of the twentieth century – novelist, short-story writer, scriptwriter, science populariser, fan,…

  • PhD Studentship on literature and science (nuclear literature)

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      Fully Funded PhD Studentship on  Nuclear Literature and Culture (School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University) http://www4.ntu.ac.uk/research/ntu_doctoral_school/studentships/index.html Closing date is 12 noon on Friday 9 December. For informal discussion regarding the project, please contact: daniel.cordle@ntu.ac.uk   We invite applications from prospective PhD students wishing to work on nuclear literature and culture under the…

  • Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Durham University

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    Applications are invited from outstanding candidates who have research and teaching interests in interdisciplinary literary studies, in an area such as (but not restricted to) digital humanities, literature and the environment, literature and visual culture, or cross-media narrative. The successful candidate will be expected to have an excellent research and teaching profile, commensurate with career…

  • CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION: Centre Scientifique de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences in Paris – 74, rue Lauriston Paris 75016

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    October 20-21, 2016  Life sciences: imagination and scientific discourse (late 18th – 19th centuries) Thursday October 20 – 9:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Opening – 9:30 a.m. Professor Marek Więckowski, director of the Académie polonaise des Sciences in Paris Professor Miroslaw Loba, Adam Mickiewicz University Professor Gisèle Séginger, Paris-Est University and Institut Universitaire de France SCIENTIFIC…

  • Cultures of Anxiety: A two-day interdisciplinary conference

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    8 & 9 June 2017 Clifton Hill House Function Foyer Although it is notoriously difficult to define, anxiety has long been theorized in a variety of fields, from philosophy to psychology, theology to neuroscience. Since 1980, when DSM-III separated anxiety neurosis into ‘panic disorder’ and ‘generalized anxiety disorder’, our understanding of and response to anxiety…

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