Category: News
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Upcoming Book Publication: William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795
William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 By Joseph Fletcher Anthem Press William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake’s wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing. Blake’s poetry and…
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Call for Book Proposals: Secrecy in Literature and Culture
Secrecy in Literature and Culture (Edinburgh University Press) Series Editors: Simon Cooke (University of Edinburgh) and Natalie Ferris (University of Bristol) We invite proposals for critical studies exploring the pivotal role of secrecy in literature and culture, with interdisciplinary, international and transhistorical scope. The ‘secret’ is a concept of pivotal importance across a range of disciplines…
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Call for Contributions – The Prosthetic Ocean: Technology, Culture, and Maritime Imagination
See the full call for contributions to this edited volume here.
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School of Advanced Study: Two funding opportunities
The School of Advanced Study, University of London, is pleased to announce two calls for applications for funding grants – open to researchers at universities and eligible research organisations across the UK to collaborate with local community and cultural partners to create exciting and innovative public engagement projects. Being Human Festival Applications for Being Human…
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Imagining Ecosystem Health – BioCriticism webinar – 6th February
The 2026 BioCriticism webinar series offers interdisciplinary approaches to “Health across Scales”. Guest speakers will discuss how scientists, writers, and artists imagine the networks and dynamics that shape health across scales, from the microbial to the planetary. Each session consists of two talks followed by discussion. Please join us for the first session on popular…
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Call for Contributions – Surviving in and Through Arab World Art and Literature: Body, Memory and Affective Regimes
This volume explores the concept of survivance in contemporary Arab art and literature, focusing on how artistic and literary practices embody, sustain, and transmit memory, emotion, and affective experience. Survivance is approached here not merely as biological or material survival, but as the ongoing persistence, transformation, and circulation of cultural, emotional, and collective traces across generations—through practices…
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Winter Newsletter Call for Submissions
Dear BSLS Colleagues: best wishes to you in the ongoing year! Already it is time for me to call for articles for the BSLS newsletter. Please share science and literature news, be it reports on events, calls for papers, publications, degrees conferred, or other wonderful things I have failed to imagine. Send your files to…
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Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World Online Lecture Series, 2026
The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, “Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World”. In recent years, the history of philosophy has been transformed through the recovery of early modern women philosophers, revaluing the forms they used and contexts in which they operated…
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BioCriticism webinar – 2026 – Health Across Scales
The 2026 edition of the BioCriticism webinar proposes interdisciplinary approaches to “Health Across Scales”. Each 90-120 minute session consists of two or three talks followed by discussion. We continue to meet on zoom at 2 pm Central European Time. Abstracts, links, biographies and information about the webinar are available here. All are welcome. BioCriticism – 2026 – Health…
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Book Prize Nominations Now Open
Nominations for this year’s BSLS Book Prize are now open. Publishers and BSLS Members can nominate any book published in the 2025 calendar year. Nominations are open until 31st December. For more info see our book prize page: https://www.bsls.ac.uk/prizes/bsls-book-prize/
