Author: bsls

  • Conference: Romantic Disorder

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    Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850 Modern disciplines like geology, history, and anthropology often trace their origins to Romantic-era developments. “Literature,” as a distinct category of expressive writing also emerged in conjunction with other disciplines, a synthetic dialogue that would later be characterized as a contentious division between “two cultures.” So too…

  • Conference: Darwin, Tennyson, and their Readers

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    DARWIN, TENNYSON and their READERS: A Bicentenary Celebration, 1809-2009 2009 marks the bicentenary of the birth of both Charles Darwin and Alfred Tennyson. Our one-day conference will celebrate this event by exploring the interaction of literature and science in the Victorian period, mining the rich vein of research opened up by Professor Dame Gillian Beer…

  • Cfp: ‘Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism’

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    Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 13: Victorian Ecology Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural and built environment. Submissions are invited for our spring 2010 edition which will focus on ecological themes in Victorian Literature…

  • AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award: Humphry Davy

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    Poetry and Science: The Case of Humphry Davy Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD award to study the manuscript and published poetry of the chemist Humphry Davy, 1778–1829. This collaborative award, to be supervised jointly by experts at the University of Salford and the Royal Institution of Great Britain (www.rigb.org), will involve the student…

  • Oxford Literature and Science Seminar

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    The Oxford Literature and Science seminar is meeting twice termly; all with a research interest in the area are welcome, whether members of the university or not. The second event in Trinity Term 2009 will be held in the Breakfast Room, Merton College, Oxford. Friday 12 June 2009 (7th week), 2pm. Jean-François Peyret (founder and…

  • Cfp: Looking back on the End of Time

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    Looking back on the End of Time — Modernism and Beyond University of East Anglia, UK Keynote Speakers: Prof. Randall Stevenson (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Bryony Randall (University of Glasgow) At the turn of the twentieth century developments in the sciences and technology seemed to necessitate a radical review of the nature, perhaps even…

  • Cfp: Dickens and Science

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    DICKENS DAY – Dickens and Science Saturday 10 October 2009, London G. H. Lewes famously criticised Dickens’s failure to engage with contemporary scientific thought and proffer psychologically convincing characters, describing them as ‘frogs whose brains have been taken out for physiological purposes’. Recent work, however, has significantly challenged the truism that Dickens was indifferent or…

  • New BSLS Executive Committee

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    As announced at our AGM at the Reading Conference, none of the vacancies on the BSLS Executive was contested, and the following officers were elected unopposed: Chair: Michael Whitworth (proposed by Sharon Ruston & John Holmes) Secretary: Kelley Swain (proposed by John Holmes & Melanie Keene) Treasurer: Dan Cordle (proposed by Jon Adams & Sharon…

  • BSLS book prize awarded to George Levine

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is pleased to announce the winner of its annual book prize. The prize of £150, for the best monograph or collection of essays published in 2008, has been awarded to George Levine for Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science (Cambridge University Press). The book…

  • Cfp: Thomas de Quincey, Manchester and Medicine 1785-1859

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    A one-day conference on this subject will be held at the University of Salford on Friday 4th December 2009. It has been 150 years since Thomas de Quincey died on the 8th December 1859. Conference papers are invited on any topic concerning his work, Manchester, and medicine, during the period of his lifetime (1785-1859). Plenary…

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