Author: bsls

  • 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 Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal.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…

  • British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2014: Registration Open

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    Registration is now open for the ninth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science, which will take place at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on 10-12 April 2014. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey), Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Professor Mary Orr (University of…

  • PhD studentship at the University of Reading on literature and zoology

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    The University of Reading is offering a PhD studentship to study the relationship between zoology and literature in relation to the Cole Library of Early Medicine and Zoology. The studentship covers full fees and a bursary of £2000 per year. The project will begin in October, and the deadline for applications is 29th March. For the full…

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