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University of Stirling, 8-10 July 2011 Keynote speakers: Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, University of London), Don Paterson (Poet), and Susan J. Wolfson (Princeton University). Other speakers include John Drakakis (Stirling University), Lorna Hutson (University of St Andrews), Ron Levao (Rutgers University), Cornelia D. J. Pearsall (Smith College) and David G. Riede (Ohio State University) This…

So that readers of the BSLS website can readily trace the authors of BSLS book reviews, I have set up a new index of book reviews ordered by reviewer, to complement the existing indexes by author and date. You can find this index in the main menu down the side of this page, or by…

George Levine, winner of the BSLS book prize for 2008, has written a review essay on Brian Boyd’s much discussed new book On the Origin of Stories, which was shortlisted for the BSLS book prize for 2009. To read his essay, click here.

Deadline: Wednesday 30 June, 2010 The concluding conference in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series Modelling Futures: Understanding Risk and Uncertainty. Tuesday, 28 September 2010 to Thursday, 30 September 2010 Location: Gillespie Conference Centre, Clare College, Queens Road, Cambridge and Mill Lane Lecture Rooms 2010. All disciplines are welcome, and inter-disciplinary treatments are particularly encouraged.  For…

Conference organized by the research group Literature and Science, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, The University of Bergen 9-10 December 2010 Invited speakers include: Nick Daly, Professor of English Literature, University College, Dublin; Joanna Zylinska, Reader in New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London; Dr. Paola Spinozzi, English literature, University of Ferrara;…

The symposium aims to bring together researchers interested in the life, letters and works of John Tyndall, and to discuss the current international project to transcribe his letters of correspondence. The symposium will be held in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, on Clarendon Place within the University of Leeds. For details, see http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ph07maf/tyndall.htm. Registration fee £5, to…

BSLS members may be interested in the National Humanities Center’s project ‘On the Human’, which is an online forum for humanities scholars and scientists to ‘share their ideas and research’.  A number of eminent scholars in the literature and science field have published essays in the forum, including N. Katherine Hayles (‘Distributing/Disturbing the Chinese Room’)…

‘Such Total and Prodigious Alteration’ / ‘The Wounds May Be Again Bound Up’: Readings and Representations of the Seventeenth Century An academic conference to be held in Chetham’s Library, Manchester, 28th-29th January, 2011 During the restoration and eighteenth century, the civil war period was consistently represented as a traumatic break in the history of England…

Professor Dame Gillian Beer, “Darwin and the Descent of Woman” Respondent: Professor Juliet Mitchell Chair: Professor Jim Secord Weds 2 June 2010, 5.00pm to 6.30pm The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge All Welcome: Free Entrance and a glass of wine  Sponsored by the Centre for Gender Studies and the Darwin Correspondence Project

The BSLS book prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2009 has been awarded to Leah Knight for Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture (Ashgate).