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We are delighted to announce that the first joint British Society for Literature and Science and Journal of Literature and Science prize for an essay by an early-career scholar has been won by Rachel Crossland for her essay ‘”Multitudinous and minute”: Early Twentieth-Century Scientific, Literary and Psychological Representations of the Mass’. Out of a strong field, this…

The BSLS is delighted to announce that three of our members are among the ten academics chosen by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as New Generation Thinkers for 2013. Very many congratulations to Sarah Dillon, Alice Hall and Gregory Tate. To read about their work, and the rest of the…

Proposals are invited for a special issue of Gothic Studies exploring intersections between the Gothic and medical humanities. Gothic studies has long grappled with suffering bodies, and the fragility of human flesh in the grip of medical and legal discourse continues to be manifest in chilling literature and film. The direction of influence goes both…

Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment: An AHRC collaborative skills project hosted by Birkbeck, University of London June 7th 2013, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London Rachel Carson’s classic polemic Silent Spring celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012: it still stands as one of the most influential texts on the damage…

CALL FOR REVIEWERS: As some of you will already know, the Journal of Literature and Science has now moved to the University of Westminster http://www.literatureandscience.org. With that move, Martin Willis, our Editor-in-Chief, has kindly asked me to take over as reviews editor. The Journal reviews section does not review books, but, quite uniquely, focuses attention instead…

Joanne Ella Parsons (Bath Spa) and Sarah Chaney (UCL) have won a BSLS small grant to stage a public symposium, ‘Body and Mind: Mesmerism in Nineteenth-Century Culture and Literature’, in the autumn.  The event is open to the public and is part of the Damaging the Body seminar series.  It will take place at Bart’s Pathology…

Fondazione Lanza, a Center of Advanced Studies in Ethics (Padua, Italy), in collaboration with the Chair of History of Medicine at the University of Padua and the Chair of Medical Humanities at the Marmara University in Istanbul, is pleased to announce the first edition of the Summer Course on Medical Humanities, that will take place…

Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment An AHRC collaborative skills project hosted by Birkbeck, University of London A number of travel bursaries are available for postgraduates and early career researchers to participate in this project, which uses Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to explore the relationship between arts and science research.…