Category: CFP

  • 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 Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal.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…

  • CFP Theatre About Science

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    Proposals are invited for the 3rd International Conference Theatre about Science, which will take place in Coimbra, on 23-25 October 2025. Please visit the conference website https://theatreaboutscience.com

  • CFP: Literature and Science in the Public Sphere (deadline 31 March 2025)

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    Public Humanities is a new international open-access, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of humanities scholarship and public life. The journal invites proposals for themed issues that pose urgent questions on contemporary public issues that require rigorous and relevant humanities knowledge. The journal invites submissions for the upcoming themed Issue Literature and Science in the Public…

  • CFP: Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (Exeter, 2-4 June 2025)

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    Call for papers Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges University of Exeter, UK , 2-4 June 2025 The Cultures of Philosophy project at the University of Exeter in the UK invites proposals for their first conference, ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges’. Confirmed speakers: Cassie…

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