Author: bsls

  • BSLS Book Prize for 2009

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    The following books have been shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2009: Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Harvard University Press) Leah Knight, Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants…

  • Cfp: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century

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    Call for papers Interdisciplinary Science Reviews ” Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century” This is to invite proposals for contributions to a themed issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on the topic of “ISR Poetries and Sciences CFP”, to be published as volume 39, number 1, March 2014. Reference here to the present century is…

  • Cfp: The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics

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    Call for papers International Interdisciplinary Conference, 17-18 February 2011 Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University, UK Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 2010 This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between aesthetics and medical understandings of the body. Today’s vogue for neurological accounts of artistic emotions has a…

  • ‘American Maritime People’ Summer Institute

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    There are about three weeks left before the deadline for the NEH Summer Institute to be held at Mystic Seaport (CT, USA) this summer, 21 June to 30 July 2010. Entitled “The American Maritime People,” the institute will pay $4,500 to each participant to defray expenses; there are places available for faculty and graduate students…

  • SHAC Workshop: History of Alchemy and Chemistry

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    Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge This one day workshop, aimed particularly at postgraduates and early career researchers, introduces and explores historiographical and methodological issues unique to the history of alchemy and chemistry. We will investigate the practical challenges of researching chemistry over different periods, from pre-modern matter theories and artisanal…

  • Conference Review: Beyond Two Cultures, King’s College, Dec 2009

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    Conference Review Beyond Two Cultures, King’s College London, December 11th, 2009 This stimulating one-day conference at King’s marked the fiftieth anniversary of C. P. Snow’s Rede lecture on the ‘two cultures’ in 1959. Incorporating three panels with participants from a broad range of disciplines was both ambitious and commendable. The conference aimed to look ‘beyond’…

  • London 19th C Studies Seminars

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    AUTUMN TERM 2009 The London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminars this term are organised by Birbeck College and entitled ‘The Victorians and Science’. The convener is Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck) 17 October 2009, 11am, Room G37 (Senate House, South Block, Ground Floor) Dr. Adelene Buckland (University of Cambridge), ‘Lyell’s Plots’ Dr. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter), ‘Hardy…

  • Public talk at the NMM: Poems of Space

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    Public talk: Poems of Space 10th November, 19:00-20:45, National Maritime Museum Lecture Theatre, £8 Renowned astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell explores the connections between poetry and science and her experience of compiling Dark Matter, an anthology of poems inspired by astronomy. Followed by a discussion with poet Kelley Swain (Darwin’s Microscope) and astronomer/writer Dr Pippa Goldschmidt. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/events/public-talk-poems-of-space/*/changeNav/false/from/2856 Tickets…

  • New Issue of the Journal of Literature and Science

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    The JLS has recently published its second issue, Vol.2, No.1. The issue contains articles on: The ichthyosaurus and its representations by JOHN GLENDENING Hoffmann’s motifs of physical movement by VAL SCULLION The sonnet and geometry by MATTHEW CHIASSON & JANINE ROGERS Additionally there are reviews of recent journal articles by Laura Voracheck, Anna Henchman, Mandy…

  • PhD studentships in ‘Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period’

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    Application deadline: 15/11/2008 The PhD-Net “Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period” is a bi-national PhD programme run collaboratively by King’s College London and the University of Stuttgart, which aims to forge interdisciplinary connections between various subjects in the Humanities (German Studies, English Studies, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and the Histories of Medicine,…

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