Author: bsls

  • ASLE-UK conference 2015 on Green Knowledge

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    CALL FOR PAPERS: ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, UK AND IRELAND, (ASLE UK-I) BIENNIAL CONFERENCE: Green Knowledge ** New Submission Deadline 1st March 2015** Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge 2-4th September 2015 Plenary Speakers: Professor Ursula K. Heise (UCLA), Roger Harrabin (BBC), and Professor Louise Westling (University of Oregon) In…

  • Workshop on mimicry in medicine and culture

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    The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) is holding an interdisciplinary workshop on Reading and Replicating Bodies: Mimicry in Medicine and Culture, 1790-1914 on 26 March 2015. To read more about it, and to register, click here.

  • BSLS 2015 conference

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    Booking for the BSLS 2015 conference is now open here. Online registration will close on 20th March, and the venue requires confirmation of delegate numbers by this date. Late bookings won’t be accepted unfortunately. Delegates need to be members of the BSLS, and the booking form includes the option to join/renew. There is also the…

  • 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…

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