Author: bsls

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,…

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…

An interdisciplinary research conference for postgraduates on Western culture from 1845 to 1945 is to be held at the University of Birmingham on Thursday 27th June 2013. To read the call for papers, click below: InFlux Postgraduate Conference

Energy in Literature: Essays on Energy and Its Social and Environmental Implications in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literary Texts (edited by Paula A. Farca) Call for papers on energy and energy sources in twentieth-century literary texts (any genre, any country). Scholars of all disciplines are encouraged to submit. TrueHeart academic, an independent academic publisher on…

The deadline for the British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science is coming up in a week’s time. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. They should…

The shortlist for the BSLS prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2012 is as follows: Simon de Bourcier, Pynchon and Relativity (Continuum) Theresa Kelley, Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Johns Hopkins UP) Gregory Lynall, Swift and Science (Palgrave) Anne Stiles, Popular Fiction and Brain Science in…

Call for Papers Victorian Body Parts St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum, Clerkenwell, Saturday 14th September 2013 Keynote Speakers: Dr Katharina Boehm (Universität Regensburg), Dr Kate Hill (Lincoln) and Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith (QMUL)  “Mr Wegg, if you was brought here loose in a bag to be articulated, I’d name your smallest bones blindfold equally with your largest, as fast as I could pick ’em out,…

Today marks the launch of a major new set of online, free to access resources developed by the Darwin Correspondence Project (Univ. of Cambridge) on the theme of ‘Darwin & Gender’. The themed resources cover a broad range of issues of interest to students and researchers of women’s and gender history and give access to…

In a new review essay just posted on Valeria Tinkler-Villani and C.C. Barfoot (eds.), Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature’s Refraction of Science (Rodopi, 2011), Professor Nick Battey, Head of Environmental Biology at the University of Reading and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded Science in Culture project Cultivating Common Ground, gives a scientist’s perspective on the…

Sir John Lubbock FRS, later Lord Avebury, is frequently noted for his close relationship with Charles Darwin and his friendship with other better-remembered contemporaries, such as his X-Club compatriots T. H. Huxley and J. D. Hooker. However, in recent years there has been increasing interest in Lubbock in his own right. Lubbock was one of…