Author: mwillis

INCS 2017—ODD BODIES March 16-19, Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia Nineteenth-century bodies were poked and prodded, characterized, caricatured, corseted and cossetted, disciplined, displayed, naturalized, normalized, medicalized, mapped and mechanized. Sciences and pseudosciences brought the body under scrutiny to an unprecedented degree—phrenology, psychology, physiology, anatomy, paleontology, microbiology, germ theory, principles of population, zoology, and sexology, all contributing to the…

We are conducting a short survey to gauge how literature and science scholars perceive science in relation to their own work. Our aim is to establish whether there are particular conceptions of science and of scholarly practice in relation to it that are prevalent among literature and science scholars at large or among particular communities…

For the coming academic year, these two funding streams will invite applications twice, with deadlines in September and March. Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st September 2016.   BSLS Small Grants Scheme   Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £400…

A fully funded studentship is available for a PhD in literary studies at Roehampton. This will be supervised by Dr Shelley Trower and needs to match with her expertise (eg. in reading, oral history, sound, science and literature, Gothic, Victorian) Full details can be found at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANZ659/postgraduate-research-studentship-shelley-trower/  

Winter Symposium – The Politics of Literature and Science BSLS members are invited to send in proposals to host the third BSLS one-day symposium in November 2016. At the AGM, the BSLS membership voted again to support, in addition to the annual conference, a one-day symposium in November 2016 on the theme of the politics…

The deadline for the 2016 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science approaches fast – Friday 17th June. Additional submissions in the time before the deadline are very much encouraged. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal.…

The annual conference for 2017 will be held at Bristol University from 6th-8th April next year. Rosalind Powell will be leading the Bristol team. As usual, a call for papers will go out in the Autumn, with a deadline in early December. Decisions on accepted papers and panels will be announced in January. There will…

Enter the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford for a unique evening of performance and drama. Drawing from a rich variety of medical plays and historical material, the event will illuminate, provoke, and dramatize developments which have shaped ideas of the body from the 18th century to the present day. In the 18th…

The closing date for the next round of the Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries scheme is 1st April 2016. This scheme is for small and medium-scale research projects based on library or archive collections supported by the Wellcome Trust. Projects must focus either on Wellcome Library holdings or on any collection supported by a previous Wellcome Trust Research Resources grant,…

Following the success of the JLS/BSLS essay prize in previous years, The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science would like to announce the 2016 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not…