Author: bsls

  • Jay Labinger speaking in Oxford

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    Professor Jay Labinger (California Institute of Technology) is visiting the Oxford English Faculty to speak on “Metaphoric vs. Literal Uses of Science: Entropy as Time’s (Double-Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and other Recent Literature”. His talk will be at 2 p.m. in the Faculty Senior Common Room on 20 October.

  • CFP for conference on the arts and feeling in C19th culture

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    Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck Birkbeck College, University of London July 16-18, 2015 Deadline: January 9, 2015 “The Arts and Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture” Keynote Speakers: Professor Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute of Art, London); Professor Tim Barringer (Yale University); Meaghan Clarke (University of Sussex); Professor Kate Flint (University of Southern California); Professor…

  • Launch of Kelley Swain’s new novel

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    Sunday 28 September, 2pm Double the Stars, a historical novel based on the life and adventures of astronomer Caroline Herschel, written by Kelley Swain (poet and former BSLS Secretary), will be being launched in the Octagon Room of Flamsteed House at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London! All welcome – click here for details.

  • Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century Reading Group

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    The reading group on Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century is a collaborative venture between Newcastle University and the Literary and Philosophical Society. The group is open to scholars, students and researchers as well as members of the public with an interest in nineteenth-century science, pseudoscience and literature. For each session we read a combination…

  • BSLS 2015 conference – call for papers

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    The tenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Liverpool, on 16-18 April 2015. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Keith Barnham (Imperial College London), Dr Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge), and Dr Claire Preston (Queen Mary University of London). The BSLS invites proposals…

  • A Pre-Raphaelite Museum

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    As part of this year’s Oxford Open Doors programme, BSLS Chair John Holmes will be giving a talk explaining how the Pre-Raphaelites became involved in the design of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the 1850s, and how the Museum itself encapsulates in stone, iron, and glass its own scientific conception of the truth…

  • Darwin and FitzRoy by Juliet Aykroyd (part of the Weather, Arts and Music (WAM) festival)

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    Location: Progress Theatre, the Mount, off Christchurch Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5HL  (www.progresstheatre.co.uk) marketing@progresstheatre.co.uk Performance dates: September 8th to 13th, 7.30pm (doors at 7pm) **Please note there will be a gala reception on the final night, where ticket-holders will enjoy a wine and canapé reception, followed by a Conversation with the playwright Juliet Aykroyd, –…

  • (Re)Imagining the Insect: Natures and Cultures of Invertebrates, 1700–‐1900.

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    A One Day Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Warwick. With Keynote Addresses from Dr. Charlotte Sleigh and Dr. Kate Tunstall Saturday 7th March 2015 There are around 800,000 species of insect. From the honey on our breakfast cereal, lice infesting our hair to cockroaches invading our homes: insects are, and always have been, implicated…

  • The ‘Exotic’ Body in 19th-century British Drama

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    The ‘Exotic’ Body in 19th-century British Drama (Oxford, 25-26 September) A full programme and registration details for this conference are now available. Click here to link to the conference page, and here for the booking site. For further information contact Tiziana Morosetti.

  • BSLS Symposium on Teaching Literature and Science

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    British Society for Literature and Science Symposium on Teaching University of Westminster, Regent Street, London – 8th November, 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION Literature and Science is currently gaining popularity amongst undergraduates, but opportunities for discussing how – and why – to teach it remain thin on the ground. This one-day symposium, led by…

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