Author: Greg Lynall

The BSLS is delighted to announce this year’s shortlist for its annual book prize, celebrating the best work in literature and science published in 2018: Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence (Oxford University Press) John Holmes, The Pre-Raphaelites and Science (Yale University Press)…

The Royal Holloway Online Shop for this year’s BSLS annual conference is open to all until 5pm (GMT) THIS FRIDAY 8th March: https://onlinestore.rhul.ac.uk/product-catalogue/events-and-conferences/department-of-english/bsls-annual-conference The four main options distinguish between residential and non-residential registration for the waged and the unwaged.  Choose one of these options. The fifth option concerns the conference dinner. Any problems with the online…

5 July 2019, 10:00–19:00 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin The Institute for German and Dutch Philology and Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of the Free University of Berlin, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, invite early career scholars to take part in the…

CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline Friday 7 December) The fourteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Thursday 4 April until Saturday 6 April 2019. Keynote speakers will include Professor Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway) and Professor Angelique Richardson (Exeter). The BSLS invites proposals…

The garden has long held a significant place in literary discourse, whether the natural garden in receipt books or herbals, for example, or the hypothetical garden, the biblical garden, or the lunar garden occasionally found in the fantastic voyages of the seventeenth century. The garden, too, has taken many forms, whether the cultivated garden, the…

CALL FOR PAPERS: ASLE-UKI BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2019 4th to 6th September 2019, University of Plymouth The University of Plymouth is delighted to be hosting the 2019 Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland. Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia) David Higgins (University of…

CALL FOR PAPERS The fourteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Thursday 4 April until Saturday 6 April 2019. Keynote speakers will include Professor Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway) and Professor Angelique Richardson (Exeter). The BSLS invites proposals for 20-minute papers, panels…