Author: bsls

  • BSLS Small Grants Scheme: Call for Applications

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    Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £300 to advance and/or promote the study of literature and science. Examples of things for which the awards might be used are expenses for visiting speakers, seminar series and debates, and other funding to stage events on literature and science.  The scheme is not intended…

  • The Inaugural Fulcrum SouthΔmpton: A Point of Balance Between Science and Art 21-13 March, Nuffield Theatre, University of Southampton

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    The first annual Fulcrum Southampton festival in March is a celebration of science and the arts, with performances, debate, and panel discussions between cultural figures, social commentators and scientists, with work from two of the UK’s most innovative theatre companies. Included in the programme are talks and debates covering everything from rickets to nostalgia and…

  • ISR on Poetry and Science

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    A special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on Poetries and Sciences in the 21st Century has just been published. To take a look at it what covers, and to whet your appetite for the articles, click here.

  • BSLS and JLS Essay Prize reminder

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    Submissions for the British Society for Literature and Science and Journal of Literature and Science prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science are due in four weeks. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. They should be between 6,000 and 8,000…

  • Literature and science at the Cambridge Science Festival

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    Science as the spark: literature inspired by science Anglia Ruskin University, Thursday 20 March, 7:00pm – 8:30pm How has scientific inquiry lead to literary works? Why is the literary presentation of science relevant to scientists and society?  A panel sponsored by the BSLS, including Chris Beckett, Dave Clements, Laura Dietz and Kelley Swain, and chaired by…

  • Order/Disorder

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    The London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group will be meeting to discuss order and disorder at the Dana Centre at the Science Museum in London at 6.30 on 15th April. To read more about this event, and to book a ticket, visit their website. Their next event will be on ‘Blindness’. This will take place on 7th…

  • Jeff Wallace Lecture on ‘Literature and Science’ March 19th Cardiff University

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    Jeff Wallace will be giving an Inaugural Lecture on ‘Literature and Science: Beyond the Two Cultures’ at Cardiff University on March 19th at 5.45pm. For further information see – http://www.uwic.ac.uk/staffemails/lectureseries2014/jeff-wallace.html

  • Theories and Uses of Light postgraduate conference cfp

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    Theories and Uses of Light in British Arts of the 19th and 20th centuries Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, 20-21 June 2014 In a chapter from The Mirror and the Lamp entitled “Newton’s rainbow and the poet’s,” M. H. Abrams draws a genealogy of the critiques levelled by British writers at practitioners of physics and the natural…

  • Journal of Literature and Science call for reviewers

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    The Journal of Literature and Science (http://www.literatureandscience.org) is looking for reviewers to review a wide range of articles in the field literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. To download the call for reviewers, click below: JLS Call for Reviewers

  • Wireless: Oliver Lodge, Science, and Spiritualism

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    Wireless: Oliver Lodge, Science, and Spiritualism Royal Society, London, 24 April 2014 Registration now open Oliver Lodge’s work in telecommunications arose from his life-long interest in the ether.  This workshop explores Lodge’s impact on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century  telecommunications, particularly wireless telegraphy and radio, but situates this alongside his interest in more esoteric etheric phenomena.  Studying Lodge’s…

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