Category: Events

  • CFP: ‘New Maps of the Mind: Neuroscience, Microscopy and the Literary Imagination’

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    Dr Vike Martina Plock writes We are looking for one or two delegates to join us on a panel on neuroscience and literary modernism at the MSA 9th Annual Conference “Geographies of Visual and Literary Cultureâ€? in Long Beach, CA (1 – 4 November 2007).

  • ‘Literature and Science Under the Microscope’ – an informal response

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    Gowan Dawson’s excellent review article in the recent JVC of the ‘state of the union’ of literature and science is especially welcome to all of us committed to the new British Society for Literature and Science, and to me personally as the Society’s Membership Secretary. I hope, indeed, that it brings me a significant amount…

  • Back to the future

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    In the run up to the second conference of the society it’s instructive to look back to our inaugural conference and its context. Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester) has recently offered an incisive review of the opportunities afforded by the range of interests and periods that the society brings together. In his article ‘Literature and…

  • 2007 Conference details

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    Details of our upcoming conference are now available. The programme is nearly finalised, the speakers are confirmed and registration and accomodation details are available on this site. Do book early, we’re looking forward to seeing old friends and new faces in March in Brum.

  • 2007 conference latest

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    Our March conference is taking shape with the promise of a varied and exciting programme. Panel topics identified so far vary from ‘Science and Twentieth-Century Theatre’ and ‘Science and Modernism’ to discussions of early modern alchemy and poisoning. Details of the conference programme can be found in the link to the right: information on registration…

  • George Levine ‘Darwin Loves You’

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    George Levine’s work over the past three decades has illuminated the Victorian period. Dr Sharon Ruston, University of Keele, sends this report of Professor Levine’s recent lecture at the University of Leicester Centre for Victorian Studies. George Levine gave a public lecture at the University of Leicester on 21st November, taken from his book Darwin…

  • BSLS 2007 Call for papers

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    The Second Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited for the second annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science. The conference will be held at the Birmingham and Midlands Institute in central Birmingham, hosted by the University of Central England, from 29-31 March 2007.…

  • Plenary Speakers for 2007

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    We’re busy planning the next conference, to be held in Birmingham March 2007, and hope to confirm plenary speakers very soon. Likely speakers so far are Jenny Uglow, author of The Lunar Men (2002), who will talk about her latest work Nature’s Engraver: A life of Thomas Bewick, due to be published Autumn 2006, and…

  • 2007 Conference

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    Details regarding the location and themes of the next conference are currently under discussion. Do be sure to check back here soon for the call for papers.

  • Successful first conference

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    The inaugural conference of the society was held in March at the University of Glasgow and began with a plenary by Professor David Amigoni.

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