Author: bsls

  • New SF poetry anthology

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    Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UK Edited by Russell Jones   Blasting into the future, across alien worlds and distant galaxies, fantastic technologies and potential threats to humanity, Where Rockets Burn Through brings science fiction and poetry together in one explosive, genre-busting collection. Discover an array of poems by more…

  • CFP: Neo-Victorian Experiments

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      CFP: ‘Neo-Victorian Experiments’ Special Issue of Victoriographies (Edinburgh University Press, Autumn 2014)   If the nineteenth century has been characterised by the important scientific discoveries made at the time, it is hardly surprising that these innovations shaped the imagination of writers and artists of the period. What is perhaps less easy to understand is…

  • AHRC Science in Culture Theme

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    The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council has recently launched a new website for its Science in Culture Theme. There is a web page for each of the Exploratory Awards, Research Networks and Fellowships which have received funding to date, together with news of further grant awards and events. To visit the website, go to www.sciculture.ac.uk.

  • A Cathedral to Nature

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    John Holmes will be giving a talk on the Natural History Museum in London as a work of art and architecture at 2.30 on Monday 24th June as part of the Museum’s Nature Live series. The talk will be being streamed live from the Museum’s website. To tune in and find out about how the…

  • 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…

  • Poetry and pathology

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    Kelley Swain, poet and one-time BSLS Secretary, has recently hosted a celebration of the possibilities of poetry and pathology at the Gordon Museum of Pathology at King’s College London. A selection of poems from Kelley’s new work Opera di Cera, a verse drama inspired by the pathological models at the Museo La Specola in Florence, have…

  • New books on literature and science at a discount

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    We are pleased to be able to offer BSLS members and other users of this website a discount on two books on literature and science. Sharon Ruston’s Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s is being published this month by Palgrave Macmillan. John Holmes’s Darwin’s Bards: British and American Poetry in…

  • Fractured Histories: Discovering Women Scientists in the Archive

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    The Women in Science Research Network is holding a workshop at the Royal Society on 16th July on the use of archival research to identify women working in science from 1830 to the present. To see the full details of the workshop, with instructions on how to register, click here. FRACTURED_HISTORIES_Final_Workshop_Call

  • Conference on Motion

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    Registration for in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion on 27th June at the University of Birmingham is now open at http://pgculturalmodernity.wordpress.com/. The event is free and open to all who are interested. If you would like any further information, please email pgculturalmodernity@contacts.bham.ac.uk. in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham  

  • Discovering John Lubbock

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    ‘Discovering John Lubbock’ Saturday 1st June 2013, 11am — 1pm, Bromley Museum ‘Discovering John Lubbock’ is a unique event at Bromley museum marking the centenary of Sir John Lubbock, 1st Lord Avebury. Marie Louise Kerr will be in conversation with Lyulph Lubbock, the great grandson of John Lubbock and Dr. Janet Owen, author of Darwin’s…

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