Author: bsls
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Science and poetry: new review by Peter Middleton
Peter Middleton has written an extended review of Brian Walpert’s Resistance to Science in Modern Poetry, now available on the Reviews pages.
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Symposium: Biomedical Sciences and the Maternal Body
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…
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North American Victorian Studies Association 2015 Conference: Ecology, System, Empire
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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David H. Levy lecturing on astronomy and poetry at the University of Sussex
The world famous astronomer David H. Levy will be giving a talk on ‘Poetry of the Night: Reading the Sky in English Poetry’ at the University of Sussex on 12th November 2014 from 17.00-18.30. The event is open and all are welcome. To read more about it, click on the link below: David H. Levy on astronomy and…
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Call for reviews for the Oxonian Review
Reviews needed for Literature and Science Special Issue of the Oxonian Review: The Oxonian Review is looking for short reviews (1000-2,000 words) of recently published work or essays (also 1000-2,000 words) on new developments in the field for our special issue on Literature and Science, which will be published on 8 December 2014. If you are interested in…
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CFP: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2015
University of Exeter, 20-21 July 2015 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…
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Being Non/Human conference
Being Non/Human is organising a conference for 2015 on the topic of ‘bodily borders’. Being Non/Human is an interdisciplinary group that engages with research on interactions between the human and nonhuman, providing a forum for graduate students and early career researchers to present current research. They invite any postgraduate or early career researcher interested in this…
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‘People Power’ Event on Victorian Citizen Science
A ‘museum late’ at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: this event will showcase the dynamic world of citizen science. Through short talks, quizzes and interactive sessions, visitors can discover how members of the public participate in science today, how they have done so in the past, and how citizen science is changing…
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Reading and Reception Seminar – Science and Literature Series
University College London is launching a new series of Science and Literature talks this term with the following talk: Tuesday, 4th November, 5.30-7.30 pm Reading and Reception Seminar – Science and Literature Series G24, Foster Court, University College London, Malet Place, WC1 Prof Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford) ‘Animal instinct and whispering machines: Science in the Victorian periodical’
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KCL seminars
The Department of English at King’s College London is running a series of research seminars on literature and science this term. For details, click on the link below: Dept research seminar 201415
