Author: bsls
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BSLS 2008 latest
The call for papers for our annual conference is now available. The conference will be held in Keele Hall, a mid-nineteenth century manor now part of Keele University, set in its own magnificent gardens and park. Events planned for the conference include readings by two contemporary poets. Deryn Rees-Jones, recently voted one of the 20…
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New speaker for BSLS 2007
We are very glad to announce that Chris McCabe will be joining us to talk on Saturday. Chris is a research scientist, a geneticist and an author of several novels most recently Dirty Little Lies, under the name ‘John Macken’. He describes research he undertook for this novel in his recent Independent article ‘Hi-tech labs…
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Link: ‘Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities’
ACUME2 is an EU funded centre, based at the university of Bologna, with partners across Europe. Its broad aim is to co-ordinate and develop new university curricula across European universities, curricula which explore and work in the interfaces between the sciences and humanities. As such it seems like an interesting link and a creative challenge…
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CFP:‘H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy’
The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference, Imperial College/Conway Hall, London, 28-29 September 2007 Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited for this year’s H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference will be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September) and by Conway Hall, Red Lion…
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PATHOLOGIES: Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences August 20-21, 2007 Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK Plenary Speakers: Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday To consider how the body has been pathologized is to ask questions of what it means to be human. As the originating…
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CFP: ‘New Maps of the Mind: Neuroscience, Microscopy and the Literary Imagination’
Dr Vike Martina Plock writes We are looking for one or two delegates to join us on a panel on neuroscience and literary modernism at the MSA 9th Annual Conference âGeographies of Visual and Literary Cultureâ? in Long Beach, CA (1 â 4 November 2007).
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‘Literature and Science Under the Microscope’ – an informal response
Gowan Dawson’s excellent review article in the recent JVC of the ‘state of the union’ of literature and science is especially welcome to all of us committed to the new British Society for Literature and Science, and to me personally as the Society’s Membership Secretary. I hope, indeed, that it brings me a significant amount…
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Back to the future
In the run up to the second conference of the society it’s instructive to look back to our inaugural conference and its context. Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester) has recently offered an incisive review of the opportunities afforded by the range of interests and periods that the society brings together. In his article ‘Literature and…
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2007 Conference details
Details of our upcoming conference are now available. The programme is nearly finalised, the speakers are confirmed and registration and accomodation details are available on this site. Do book early, we’re looking forward to seeing old friends and new faces in March in Brum.
