Author: bsls

  • SLSAeu conference

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    The new website for the SLSAeu conference for 2015 has just been launched. The conference will be on the theme of Scale. It is taking place in Malta in June. For more details, click here to visit the website.

  • (Re)Imagining the Insect: Natures & Cultures of Invertebrates, 1700-1900. Booking now open!

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    Booking is now open for the one day interdisciplinary conference: (Re)Imagining the Insect: Natures & Cultures of Invertebrates, 1700-1900, to be held at The University of Warwick on 7th March 2015. The conference programme and abstracts can be found on our website – https://reimaginingtheinsect.wordpress.com/programme-and-abstracts/

  • New book series on North American Literature and the Environment, 1600-1900

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    Ashgate have just announced a new book series on North American Literature and the Environment, 1600-1900. To read more about it, including how to submit a proposal, click below: New Ashgate Series flyer

  • Oxford literature and science seminars

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    To see this term’s schedule for literature and science seminars at Oxford University, click below: Oxford Literature and Science seminars Spring 2015

  • CFP: Virginia Woolf and illness

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    CFP Virginia Woolf Miscellany Issue #90, Fall 2016 Special Topic: Woolf and Illness Submissions due: 31 March 2016 Virginia Woolf’s 1926 essay “On Being Ill” questions why illness has failed to feature as a prime theme of literature, alongside love, battle, and jealousy. This issue of VWM seeks contributions on Woolf’s exploration of illness in…

  • CFP on Victorian Popular Fiction

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    CFP: The Victorian Popular Fiction Association 7th Annual Conference: Authenticity and Artifice, 13-15 July, 2015, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London This year’s Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference has much to interest science and literature scholars. As well as a keynote lecture from Professor Linda Dryden (“Stevenson and H. G. Wells: Monomaniacs, Duality and…

  • CFP on Aquatic Visions in Art, Science and Literature

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    <strong>Underwater Worlds: Aquatic Visions in Art, Science and Literature</strong> A conference at the <strong>Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)</strong>, University of Oxford, 15-16 September 2015. <a href=”http://underwaterworlds.net/”>underwaterworlds.net/</a> ‘How can I retrace the impression left upon me by that walk under the waters? Words are impotent to relate such wonders!’ – Jules Verne, <em>Twenty Thousand…

  • **Extended deadline** CFP: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2015 University of Exeter, 20-21 July 2015

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    Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Stuart Murray, University of Leeds Dr Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick   Building on the success of last year’s Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, this conference aims to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines in a manner that reflects the broad scope of exciting research being carried out in the…

  • CFP on C19th Medical Periodicals

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    Working with Nineteenth-Century Medical and Health Periodicals St Anne’s College, Oxford, Saturday 30 May 2015 The nineteenth century saw an explosion in the number of medical periodicals available to the interested reader. Publications such as the Lancet and British Medical Journal are familiar names to many of us, still published and widely read today. The…

  • PhD funding on Darwinian medicine

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    Applications are invited for a 3-year fully funded PhD project on ‘Evolution and the Hygienic City: Darwinian medicine in fin-de-siècle Belfast’ to begin October 2015 and based at Queen’s University Belfast. For full details, click here: Darwinian Medicine PhD

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