Author: bsls

  • Book prize 2014: nominations

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    Nominations for The British Society for Literature and Science book prize 2014 are now being sought. All nominated books must be dated 2014 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.…

  • CfP: Abnormality and the Abnormal in the Nineteenth Century

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    Abnormality and the Abnormal in the Nineteenth Century, 7 May 2015, Durham University This one-day interdisciplinary conference, organised by the Postgraduate Representatives for the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at Durham University, aims to explore categorisations, explanations, and implications of abnormality in the long nineteenth century, asking what the abnormal can tell us about long nineteenth…

  • 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

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    The Royal Society is pleased to announce that entries for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books are now being accepted. The 2015 prize will celebrate the best of outstanding popular science books from around the world. This prestigious prize is open to authors of science books that are accessible and compelling accounts…

  • Oxford C19th Science, Medicine and Culture seminars

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    The programme for next term’s seminar series at Oxford University on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century has been announced. For details, visit the website of the Constructing Scientific Communities project.

  • BSLS 2015 cfp – deadline approaching

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    This is a reminder that the deadline for the call for papers for next year’s BSLS conference, to be held at the University of Liverpool on April 16-18, is approaching. Please can you send your proposals to Greg Lynall at Liverpool by Friday 5th December. Here are the full details, from our earlier post: The…

  • David Amigoni speaking on Galton and Pearson

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    The next seminar in the UCL Science and Literature Seminar Series will be given by Prof David Amigoni of Keele University on ‘Francis Galton, Karl Pearson and the Biographical Laboratory’. Date, time and place: Tuesday, 2nd December, 5.30-7.30pm. G24 Foster Court, UCL – all welcome. Abstract: This talk will explore Francis Galton’s use of biography;…

  • Michael Whitworth on Poetry and Science

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    Michael Whitworth, Chair of the BSLS from 2009 to 2012, has recently given a talk on Poetry and Science in the 1920s and 1930s at the Oxford Literature and Science seminar. To watch Michael’s talk on video, click here.

  • Science and poetry: new review by Peter Middleton

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    Peter Middleton has written an extended review of Brian Walpert’s Resistance to Science in Modern Poetry, now available on the Reviews pages.

  • Symposium: Biomedical Sciences and the Maternal Body

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    One day free symposium organised by the Postgraduate Contemporary Women’s Writing Network with kind support from The British Society for Literature and Science. When engaging new audiences in contemporary women’s writing, an increasing awareness of the importance of interdisciplinary methods has served to draw attention to the ways in which literary expertise can be used…

  • North American Victorian Studies Association 2015 Conference: Ecology, System, Empire

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    NAVSA Annual Conference 2015 Honolulu, Hawaii July 9-12, 2015 Deadline: November 21, 2014 “Ecology, System, Empire” Organizers: Nathan Hensley (Georgetown) and Philip Steer (Massey) The cataclysmic fact of global warming has brought to the fore notions of interconnection, supraindividual agency, and transhuman timescales, challenging scholarship to ask how systems, ecological networks, and even entire worlds…

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