Category: CFP

  • CfP BSLS Conference 2026

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    The twenty-first annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Strathclyde, on 9th-11th April 2026 (in person). The BSLS invites proposals for twenty-minute papers, or panels of three papers, or roundtables, on any subjects within the field of literature (broadly defined to include theatre, film, and television)…

  • CFP: Energy Ecologies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: 1500 to the Present

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    A special Focus Section for Anglistik (summer 2027, vol. 38, no. 2) edited by Paul Hamann-Rose and Kai Merten At a time of environmental, economic and energetic crisis, humanity’s continuing dependence on fossil fuels has come to the forefront of cultural debate (Mitchell 2011, Boyer 2014, Moore 2015, Malm 2016, Scott 2018). The emerging field…

  • Call for Papers: Poetry and Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment

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    University of York, 26th-27th June 2026 Keynote: Katie Murphy. Confirmed Speakers include: Liza Blake, Tita Chico, Jonathan Sawday, Helen Smith, Lizzie Swann We invite proposals for the final conference of the AHRC-DFG project, ‘Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, 1580-1750’. From the late 16th and on into…

  • Call for entries: 2025 BSLS/JLS Essay Prize

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    The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science are pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 competition for the best new essay by an early career scholar or postgraduate student on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. Starting…

  • Call for Crowdsourcing Participants: Picturing Pennant

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    Would you like to help the Curious Travellers project create an innovative online edition of arguably the most important travel books ever written about Wales and Scotland? ‘Picturing Pennant’ is a crowdsourcing project, run in collaboration with the National Library of Wales crowdsourcing team and the University of Glasgow. Focusing on Thomas Pennant’s eighteenth-century tours in Wales and…

  • CFP: Aesthetics of the Clinic (11 June 2025, Cambridge)

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     This one-day symposium draws together scholars working at the intersection of literature, aesthetics and mental health to prompt a discussion on the relationship between psychiatric institutions and the production of literature. We ask: how does the space of the psychiatric clinic and innovations in psychiatry generate new literary and aesthetic production and how does that production respond to, reproduce or contest psychiatric space,…

  • CFP: Women’s Scientific Literatures (Anglia Ruskin, 26-27 June)

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    Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy   26–27th June 2025, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Deadline for submissions: Monday 3rd March 2025 Contact email: WomensScientificLiteratures@gmail.com   The international AHRC/DFG research consortium, Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Anglia Ruskin University; University of…

  • CFP: Aquatic Life, 23-25 September, Clermont-Ferrand

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    This international symposium will explore representations of aquatic life in literature, the arts and the humanities in general, building on recent thinking such as writing the ocean through “thalassopoetics”, a concept coined by Isabelle de Vendeuvre, or following on from the EASLCE “Sea More Blue” congress held in Perpignan in 2024. The symposium thus investigates…

  • CFP: Unquiet shores: coastal acoustics and the terpsichorean ocean

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    18-20 June 2025, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, and online deadline for proposals: Monday 10 February 2025. The Haunted Shores and Macabre Danse networks welcome proposals for papers, panels, or workshops on anything relating to sound or hearing on the shore, in coastal waters, or inland coastal regions, from any time period, form, media, genre, or…

  • CFP: Fat Fictions (BSLS Winter Symposium, 25 January 2025)

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    British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 24/25: ‘Fat Fictions’ University of Strathclyde   ‘Fat Fictions’ is a free one-day digital symposium hosted by the British Society for Literature and Science and the University of Strathclyde. The symposium will take place on Saturday 25th January 2025. Participation is encouraged from PGRs and ECRs. Abstracts…

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