Author: bsls

  • Neuroscience and Modern Fiction cfp

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    Modern Fiction Studies Call for Papers: Upcoming Special Issue Neuroscience and Modern Fiction Guest Editor: Stephen J. Burn Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2014 The Editors of MFS seek essays that consider how modern fiction has evolved in dialogue with the neuroscientific revolution. In the aftermath of the so-called “Decade of the Brain” (the 1990s),…

  • Where science and literature can clash

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    “Dear Hilda R., I`m sorry but I just can`t stand biographical novels. For the historian, they are a pollution, plain and simple. So I do not see I can be of any help to you. Sincerely, —-”   I received the above email from a Freud expert when I approached him for help with my research…

  • Nature’s Verse

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    John Holmes will be launching the paperback of his book Darwin’s Bards with a reading and discussion of poems on evolution from across the last two centuries at the Natural History Museum in London on Monday 11th November at 2.30. For more details, click here.

  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant Posts: Oxford and Leicester

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    Readers of the BSLS pages may be interested in five Postdoctoral Research Assistant posts which have just been advertised. These are as follows: 1) Research Assistant on the AHRC project ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’, led by Professor Sally Shuttleworth and based at St Anne’s College, Oxford. The focus…

  • British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2014: Final Call for Papers

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    The ninth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science 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 Southampton). The conference will finish with…

  • SLSA-EU conference

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    The 8th SLSA-EU Conference, “Life, in Theory” will take place June 3-6, 2014, in Turin, Italy. For details, including the call for papers , see http://litsciarts.eu/. Plenary speakers are Claire Colebrook, Roberto Esposito, Giuseppe Testa, Paolo Vineis, and Cary Wolfe — leading scholars in political philosophy, critical theory, epidemiology, stem cell genetics, media theory, and…

  • Cannibal Modernisms conference

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    Cannibal Modernisms King’s College London Programme in Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference,  7th-8th November, 2013. Keynote Speaker: Professor Xudong Zhang, Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University. “Politics of the Flesh:  The Animal in Redefining the Human in Modern Chinese Literature and Ideology”  Cannibal Modernisms will be two-day conference exploring the metaphorical implications…

  • Workshop on women’s scientific travelling to 1850

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    Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, UK 27-28 June 2014 Speakers to include: Professor Barbara Gates (University of Delaware), Professor Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University), and Professor Ann Shteir (York University, Ontario, Canada) Scholars have long been familiar with the scientific endeavours of late 19th-century women travellers…

  • ESHS conference update

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    The deadlines on the call for papers for the European Society for the History of Science conference in Lisbon in September 2014 have been extended as follows: Symposia Submission (theme and rationale of symposium and abstract of papers) – 10 Jan 2014 Decision regarding accepted symposia – 10 February 2014 Abstract Submission for stand-alone papers)–…

  • Science Museum poetry reading

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    A group of poets will be reading at the Science Museum in London on Wednesday 30th October from 7.30 in the evening. Join Simon Barraclough, Lorraine Mariner, Mick Delap, Sarah Westcott, Richard Barnett, Dominic McLoughlin, Malene Engelund, and Kelley Swain to explore space and science through verse. For more details, click here.

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