Author: bsls

  • CFP Special Issue: The Literature of the Anthropocene

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    The concept of the Anthropocene, deemed by Bruno Latour “the best alternative we have to usher us out of the notion of modernization”, blurs the distinction between human and geological history (Dipesh Chakrabarty). It speaks, too, to contemporary fiction’s concern with the place of humans on the planet, the ways in which they shape -…

  • Call for Papers: Mediating Climate Change

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    University of Leeds Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017 Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor Alexandra Harris (Liverpool); Professor Mike Hulme (King’s College London); Dr Adeline Johns-Putra (Surrey); Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) Our experience of climate change is always mediated. Its effects are encountered through changing…

  • REMINDER CFP Writing Remains: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature

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    Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Friday 20th January 2017. ‘It’s a kind of literary archaeology: on the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork you journey to a site to see what remains were left behind and to reconstruct the world that these remains imply’. Toni Morrison is not the only…

  • Journal of Literature and Science – Call for Reviewers

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    The latest call for reviewers from the Journal of Literature and Science is available here: JLS CALL FOR REVIEWERS 2016

  • CFP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab

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    Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 21-23 October 2016 Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science (http://elinas.fau.de/) See the full CFP here: CfP-Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab

  • BSLS/JLS Essay Prize Winner 2016

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    The BSLS are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the essay prize jointly awarded with the Journal of Literature and Science is Rachel Murray’s essay titled ‘Vermicular Origins: The Creative Evolution of Samuel Beckett’s Worm’. We offer our many congratulations to Rachel. The judges wrote: “This essay offers a meticulously researched, original account of the…

  • Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s

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    Creating Romanticism Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s  Sharon Ruston  Paperback edition out June 2016    Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print Paperback 9781349442959 Jun 2016 £19.50 $34.99 Hardback 9781137264282 May 2013 £58.00 $95.00 264 pp 216 mm x 138 mm   Introduction Mary Wollstonecraft…

  • CFP Writing Remains: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Archaeology and Literature

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      Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Friday 20th January 2017. ‘It’s a kind of literary archaeology: on the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork you journey to a site to see what remains were left behind and to reconstruct the world that these remains imply’. Toni Morrison is not the…

  • Science meets Poetry, Manchester, 26th July 2016

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    Science meets poetry is exclusive to EuroScience Open Forum and now celebrates its tenth year. The year 2016 is one of important anniversaries: 400th since the death of Shakespeare and Cervantès, 500th since the publication of More’s Utopia. Manchester, as the birthplace of the industrial revolution, looms large in the poetry of our times. Wordsworth…

  • Justin D Edwards (ed) Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics

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    Justin D Edwards (ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics (London: Routledge 2015) 198 pp. Hb £90. ISBN: 978-1-138-79719-2 Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture is a bold new attempt to answer questions of how the Gothic has evolved to manifest itself within multiple technologies and various media. In its own…

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