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Science in the Archive Registration   Registration will open on Monday 12th October. Space is limited so sign up early. 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 2015 Organisers: Verity Burke and Clare Stainthorp, at…

Palgrave Macmillan are delighted to announce the launch of our new ‘Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine series. To celebrate this, Palgrave is offering a discount on books in the series to members of the BSLS. Just quote ‘PM15THIRTY’ when ordering the book(s) directly from Palgrave Macmillan to get 30% off . You can also…

CFP: Books of Blood: a cross-disciplinary investigation into blood as representation, symbol, and text in modern culture All humans ‘are books of blood—wherever you open us, we’re red’ (Clive Barker). If our bodies are books of blood, then they can be read; we invite such readings and contributions where blood is the signifier. We are…

Museum of English Rural Life and University of Reading’s Special Collections, Saturday 14th November 2015 Archival research has long been a mainstay of literature and science as a discipline, challenging the boundaries of what can be read as text and excavating long-submerged concepts and connections. The recent growth in collaborative doctoral awards and collections-based PhDs,…

The BSLS are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the essay prize jointly awarded with the Journal of Literature and Science is Maria Avxentevskaya’s essay titled ‘The Spiritual Optics of Narrative: John Wilkins’s Popularization of Copernicanism’. We offer our many congratulations to Maria. The judging panel wrote: “This a thoroughly convincing and exceptionally well-argued essay…