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‘Cultivating Common Ground: Biology & the Humanities’ What do biologists know and think of the humanities? And what do they make of those humanities scholars – literary critics and historians – who have made biology their area of study? University of Reading staff in the biological sciences and the humanities are currently seeking practising biologists…

Martin Willis has written a very short report on the Historicism plenary on the final day of this year’s conference. He has uploaded this onto his papers page on academia.edu – here is a link, for anyone who missed the conference itself.

Applications are invited for BSLS small grants 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 for individual conference travel,…

A debate about the interrelations between science and contemporary poetry, edited by Gilbert Adair, has been published in the online poetry and poetics magazine Jacket2 under the title ‘Like a Metaphor: Ongoing relations between “poetry” and “science”‘. Contributors include Gilbert Adair, Rae Armantrout, Amy Catanzano, John Cayley, Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Allen Fisher, James Harvey,…

London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group http://londoninterdisciplinarydiscussiongroup.wordpress.com/ Transplantation: 25th June 2012 5-7pm, K3.11 Raked Lecture Theatre, King’s College London, Strand. At our next meeting we will be discussing transplantation. Our speakers will be Paul Craddock, Adam Ferner and Refik Gökmen. The work of all these speakers concerns transplantation in some way, and you can read more about…

Applications to the spring 2012 round of the BSLS Small Grants Scheme have been considered. The scheme will help to fund a one-day symposium, ‘Moving Toward Science,’ organised by the North East Postgraduate Research Group for the Long Nineteenth Century (NENC) in late September, 2012. Thanks to all who applied to the scheme. The summer…

Over the Summer period, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh will be hosting a series of three half-day seminars devoted to exploring the relationship between the body and movement within the intersections of the sciences and the humanities.  Research that explores the interstices of the humanities, materiality and…

Beckett and Brain Science AHRC-funded Symposium University of Reading   27 April 2012     10:00-10:30     Coffee and registration 10:30-11:30     “…but the brain…”: Professor James Knowlson (University of Reading) and Dr Ulrika Maude (University of Reading) in Conversation 11:30-12:30     Dr Peter Fifield (St John’s Oxford): “Seeing Things: The Brain and the Archive” 12:30-1:15       Lunch…

Postgraduate conference at Keele University, 12th May 2012 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Joanna Verran (MMU), Prof. Sharon Ruston (Salford) & Prof. David Amigoni (Keele) This one-day postgraduate conference will consider links between science and literature from the 1800s to the present day. Despite the lacuna that is traditionally posited between these two subjects, from the Romantic…