Author: bsls

  • Gothic and Medical Humanities Call for Papers

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    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 workshop

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    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…

  • Journal of Literature and Science: Call for Reviewers

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    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…

  • BSLS Small Grants Scheme – Body and Mind: Mesmerism in Nineteenth-Century Culture and Literature

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    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…

  • Summer Course on Medical Humanities

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    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…

  • CFP: Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980

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    Date of event: 16-17 November 2013 Venue: Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS Closing date for submissions: 14 June 2013 Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Kripal (Rice University) http://altconscious.wordpress.com This meeting will explore the theme of altered consciousness in relation to popular culture, psychology, philosophy, religion, medicine and literature during the period 1918-1980. Many literary and…

  • CFP: Speculative fiction conference

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    Diversity in Speculative Fiction, Loncon 3, Call for Papers 72nd World Science Fiction Convention Thursday 14 to Monday 18 August 2014 London, UK http://loncon3.org/ Guests of Honour: Iain M. Banks, John Clute, Malcolm Edwards, Chris Foss, Jeanne Gomoll, Robin Hobb, Bryan Talbot The academic programme at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, is offering…

  • Postgraduate Travel Bursaries

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    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.…

  • Book prize winner

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    The winner of the BSLS Book Prize 2012, announced at the recent annual conference in Cardiff, is Theresa Kelley for Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Johns Hopkins UP). Congratulations to Professor Kelley on taking this accolade, in a year with a very strong shortlist. Her book is a major contribution to the understanding of Romanticism and nature,…

  • Call for Papers on Scottish Science

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    World Congress of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, July 2 – 5, 2014 Panel on Scottish Science: The Literature Heat, light, earth, life and air, mathematics, meteorology, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and physics are prominent topics, concerns, and challenges that have attracted Scottish scientists since the sixteenth century and to which they have made major and significant…

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