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On October 1st and 2nd the Royal Society will be holding a festival to celebrate the relationship between science, literature and the arts. Speakers include John Banville, John Barrow, Gillian Beer, Marcus Du Sautoy, Sebastian Faulks, Michael Frayn, John Holmes, Richard Holmes, Paul Nurse, Charlotte Sleigh and Jenny Uglow. To see all the details, including…

Early Registration for ‘Heavenly Discourses: Myth, Astronomy and Culture’ http://heavenlydiscourses.org/ closes on 31st July. ******** This Interdisciplinary Conference has been organised jointly by Nicholas Campion (School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David) and Darrelyn Gunzburg (Department of History of Art, University of…

Poetry and Geology: A Celebration Organised by: Main Geological Society events       Date: 10 October 2011 Event Type: Lecture Venue: The Geological Society (Burlington House) Accessibility:   Map   Why do so many poets write about geology? Why are geologists so drawn to poetry?  Timed to coincide with National Poetry Day and Earth…

The event “Imagination and Interpretation: Writing Science into Fiction”, which was due to be held at the Royal Society on 20 July, has had to be postponed as Pat Barker is unfortunately indisposed. It is hoped to reschedule this event for early October as part of the Royal Society’s festival of literature and the arts.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award  The Place of the Royal Society in Victorian Literary Culture University of Reading/The Royal Society Applications are invited for a doctoral studentship on ‘The Place of the Royal Society in Victorian Literary Culture’. The research will be supervised jointly by Dr John Holmes, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of…

Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £150 to advance and/or promote the study of literature and science. Examples of things for which the awards might be used are conferences, panels on literature and science, expenses for visiting speakers, seminar series and debates. Applicants should be members of BSLS and should apply…

Interdisciplinary conference organized by the research group Literature and Science, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, The University of Bergen 27-28 October 2011. Invited speakers include: Luigi Dei, Professor of Chemistry, Università di Firenze, on Primo Levi’s bridging of chemistry and literature; Robert Gordon, Reader in Modern Italian Culture, Cambridge University, on Primo Levi; Bernard…

Call for Papers: Journal special issue April 2011 Essay proposals are invited for a collection entitled ‘The Cultural Production of Eighteenth-Century Natural Knowledge’. We are developing a collection of essays as a journal special issue which will examine the production and circulation of knowledge about the natural world in the eighteenth century. This interdisciplinary collection…

We are delighted to announce that Sally Shuttleworth has won the BSLS prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2010 for The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900 (Oxford University Press). For the judges’ comments on this book, and for full details of…

I am pleased to announce that we have now finalised our programme for the next meeting, scheduled to take place on 9th May.  Please find the details below. Best wishes, Susie Christensen and Helen Barron Direct queries to susie.christensen@kcl.ac.uk or helen.barron.10@ucl.ac.uk University of London Sciences and the Arts Interdisciplinary Discussion Group Date: Monday 9th May,…