Author: bsls

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 Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal.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…

The Canadian scholarly journal Canadian Literature is dedicating a special issue to the subject of Canadian Literature and Science. We welcome submissions from scholars on this topic from anywhere in the world. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2013: please see the CFP on the Canadian Literature Website: http://canlit.ca/submissions/cfp/19   Questions in advance of…

‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority Medical Humanities Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 23-25 August 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS From nurses, physicians and surgeons to administrators, caregivers, physiotherapists, technicians, veterinarians and voluntary sector workers, this conference adopts the term ‘attentive writers’ as evocative of the multitude of both non-professional and professional caregivers – clinical and…