Author: bsls

  • Workshop on women scientific travellers

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    This is a reminder that the deadline for papers for the workshop on Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850 to be held in London in June is the end of this month. To read the call for papers, click here.

  • Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture

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    Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing, School of English, University of Kent, 9th-10th May 2014 Call for Papers Focusing on the literary and historical representation of irrational emotions or phobias, Fear and Loathing seeks papers on topics and authors from any period, which aim to demonstrate the…

  • AHRC Science in Culture event

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    Applications are now open for an AHRC Science in Culture Theme Ignite event to be held at the Natural History Museum on Wednesday 26th March 2014. The event is an opportunity for Early Career researchers and will showcase the best of interdisciplinary research across the Arts, Humanities and Sciences. Further information about the event, including a call…

  • Conference on Victorian Sustainability

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    Victorian Sustainability   British Association for Victorian Studies conference  University of Kent Canterbury September 4-6, 2014 Call for Papers From emerging ideas about the perils of environmental degradation to the establishment of the National Trust, the concept of sustainability began to take on a new importance in the Victorian period that remains relevant in 21st-century…

  • New journal issue on Space in the Nineteenth Century

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    19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 17 (2013) SpaceThis issue, guest edited by Isobel Armstrong, is dedicated to concepts of space and to nineteenth-century spaces. From the verbal constructions of space that pattern nineteenth-century novels, to the n-dimensional space of philosophic speculation and popular genre fictions, and from astronomy to the spaces…

  • SLSAeu relaunch and conference

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    SLSAeu, the European branch of the international Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, has recently been relaunched. Its executive office is now located at the English Department, University of Basel, Switzerland. To read more about the Society, please visit the website at: http://engsem.unibas.ch/research/research‐projects/slsaeu You can also download a flier for SLSAeu, including details of their next…

  • BSLS Book Prize 2013

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    Nominations are being accepted for the BSLS Book Prize 2013. The prize is made to the best scholarly book on any aspect of literature and science published in the last year. Members and publishers are welcome to nominate books. Members may nominate their own titles, but please note that individual memberships must be current and the publication in question…

  • ELINAS Inaugural Conference cfp

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    Call for Papers for the Inaugural Conference of ELINAS (Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Sciences) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Germany 29.05. – 01.06.2014 Physics and Literature: Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization Physics, literature, and literary criticism are discourses of knowledge production which have drifted apart considerably in the course of the modern functional differentiation…

  • BSLS/JLS Essay Prize

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    The British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science would like to announce a prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. They should be between 6,000 and 8,000…

  • BSLS conference deadline

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    A quick reminder, the call for papers for the BSLS conference closes this Friday. Proposals of no more than 250 words, together with the name and institutional affiliation of the speaker, should be sent in the body of messages (not in attachments) to g.tate@surrey.ac.uk. For full details, click here.

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