Category: Events

  • Popular Science Books event, Imperial College

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    Registration is now open for a one-day event discussing Popular Science Books to be held at Imperial College’s South Kensington Campus, 22nd February 2008. Literary critics, historians, writers, illustrators, publishers, prize-givers, reviewers, readers, booksellers, teachers (and others) are all invited to take part in what we hope will be a day of lively discussions. Places…

  • Call for papers: scientists as readers of literature

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    Abstracts are invited for a proposed panel on Scientists as Readers of Literature for the ‘Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence’ conference to be held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 21-23 July 2008. Papers may discuss the literary reading of scientists, natural philosophers or natural historians of any period. Please send…

  • CFP: 3rd Annual ‘Science & the Public’ Conference

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    Third Annual ‘Science & the Public’ Conference, University of Manchester, 21st and 22nd, June 2008 The past twenty years of scholarly study has demonstrated that science communication is a much more complex process than merely publishing in scientific journals and attending scientific meetings. Today the sciences are linked to society through many different channels of…

  • Gillian Beer gives Romanes Lecture, Oxford

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    Professor Dame Gillian Beer, Honorary President of the BSLS, will deliver the Romanes Lecture at 5.45 p.m. on Thursday, 8 November 2007 in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Her lecture is entitled ‘Darwin and the Consciousness of Others’. The lecture is free to attend and open to all.

  • EVENT: Workshop on Popular Science Books

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    We are looking for contributors for a one-day event on popular science books to be held at Imperial College, London on 22nd Feb 2008. Literary critics, historians, writers, illustrators, publishers, prize-givers, reviewers, readers, booksellers, teachers (and others) are all invited to take part. Contributors will be asked introduce a book, collection, theme, or popular science…

  • BSLS 2008 latest

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    The call for papers for our annual conference is now available. The conference will be held in Keele Hall, a mid-nineteenth century manor now part of Keele University, set in its own magnificent gardens and park. Events planned for the conference include readings by two contemporary poets. Deryn Rees-Jones, recently voted one of the 20…

  • EVENT: ‘Science and the Public’ conference, May 2007

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    BSLS member Alice Bell writes to say: We’ve just put together a draft programme for the 2007 “Science and the Public�? conference (Imperial College London, 19th May). It’s going to be diverse and exciting day. Registration is now open, registration details and the draft programme are available from the Science and Communication Group site at…

  • New speaker for BSLS 2007

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    We are very glad to announce that Chris McCabe will be joining us to talk on Saturday. Chris is a research scientist, a geneticist and an author of several novels most recently Dirty Little Lies, under the name ‘John Macken’. He describes research he undertook for this novel in his recent Independent article ‘Hi-tech labs…

  • CFP:‘H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy’

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    The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference, Imperial College/Conway Hall, London, 28-29 September 2007 Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited for this year’s H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference will be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September) and by Conway Hall, Red Lion…

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    PATHOLOGIES: Questions of embodiment in literature, arts and sciences August 20-21, 2007 Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK Plenary Speakers: Tim Armstrong, Kelly Hurley & Jonathan Sawday To consider how the body has been pathologized is to ask questions of what it means to be human. As the originating…

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