Author: mwillis

The Society is pleased to announce that the following books have been shortlisted for the 2015 Book Prize. The winner will be announced at the annual Conference in Birmingham from 7th-9th April. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors. Peter Capuano, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body (U of Michigan Press) Markus…

The British Library are offering 3-month internships to PhD students, and one of the offered positions is in the field of ‘Science in Society’. http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/highered/phd-placement-scheme/science-in-society.pdf    

“The Nineteenth Century in the future. Thinking, representing and imagining times to come during the 19th Century”. Tuesday 19 January 2016 – Friday 22 January 2016 See the following website for further details: https://www.singer-polignac.org/fr/missions/sciences/colloques/1279-le-xixe-siecle-face-au-futur-penser-representer-rever-l-avenir-au-xixe-siecle  

Between fact and fiction: climate change fiction Fiction Meets Science Workshop Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany 22 – 23 April 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS   Since global warming seems, almost by definition, hard to imagine (after all, it’s never happened before) it gets short shrift. (…) And here science can take us only so far. The…

The recent BSLS Winter Symposium, Science in the Archives, held at Reading and hosted by Verity Burke and Claire Stainthorp, was extensively tweeted before and during the event. Verity and Claire have now captured those tweets on Storify, for those who can and those who cannot access Twitter. You can follow the narrative of the…

There remain a few places left for the next Winter Symposium – do sign up quickly if you wish to attend. The event is free. Science in the Archive Registration Sign up is taking place through Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-in-the-archives-bsls-winter-symposium-tickets-18860410997 Event Details: Location: Museum of English Rural Life and University of Reading’s Special Collections Date: Saturday 14th November…

Proposed Panel at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Conference, at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Calgary Alberta, 28-31 May 2016. Museums, Collections, and Memory Objects: Literary Intersections Call for Papers: This panel, inspired by the recent intersections of literary and material culture studies, invites proposals that…

The eleventh annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Birmingham, from Thursday 7 April until Saturday 9 April 2016. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Harriet Ritvo (MIT), Professor Sharon Ruston (University of Lancaster), and Professor Alice Roberts (University of Birmingham). The BSLS invites…

#ColeEx: A Twitter Exhibition of Twentieth-Century Natural History and Zoology at the Cole Museum of Zoology, UK This upcoming exhibition is based on a collaborative mini-project between the University of Reading’s Museums and Special Collections (@UniRdg_SpecColl), the Cole Museum of Zoology (@ColeZoology), and the Centre for Collections-based Research. The project involved the creation of a…

Position Title: Tenure-track Assistant Professor Cognitive Literary Studies Employer: University of California Santa Barbara Job Description: We invite applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in cognitive literary studies and/or neuroaesthetics who specializes in any period of British or American literature. The ideal candidate would be able to teach a range of courses that focus on…