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British Society for the History of Science Online Lecture by Hughes Prize Winner Renée Bergland Join us for a special online lecture with Renée Bergland, winner of the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize, as she discusses her award-winning book Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science (Princeton University Press). In Natural Magic, Bergland explores the intertwined…

CFP: Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World Conference at the University of Amsterdam Monday, 15 June 2026 How do material conditions shape how and what we know about the natural world? In this conference, we propose to bring together scholars working in the history of science and literature and science to consider these…

Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850  Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026   Dreams hang on every leaf: unearthly forms Glide through the gloom; and mystic visions swim Before the cheated sense. – Anna Letitia Barbauld, ‘To Mr. C[oleridge]’   Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones,…

The Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit) and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA) are hosting an online symposium on Climate Change: Stories from the Front Line on Saturday 29 November with speakers from countries around the world. To see the programme and register to attend free of charge, please follow this…

In recent years, diverse fields related to literature and science studies, such as the medical humanities, critical neurodiversity studies, and the study of the haptic, have been re-evaluating the human body, its histories, and the impact of those histories today. At the same time, fields such as feminist theory, critical race theory, trans studies, and disability studies have…

Imagining Ethical Horizons Old Laboratories, Newnham College, Cambridge 29 October, 10 – 4:30 What if we solved the energy crisis and deployed nuclear fusion energy production at scale?  What if we could now universally recycle everything we use? What if we solved world hunger by creating a single complete daily nutrition pill? What if we…

Tackle big questions and explore bold ideas about the future of our planet in this season’s British Academy LATE. Join us for a vibrant evening of talks, workshops, performances, and exhibits that examine our evolving connection with the natural world – and discover how innovative research in the humanities and social sciences can help us…

The Humphry Davy Notebooks: Resources for bringing together the English Literature and Science curriculums This webinar will introduce resources on the poetry of famous scientist Sir Humphry Davy, developed through a collaboration between the Humphry Davy Notebooks Project at Lancaster University and STEM Learning. These resources are ideal for teachers to show the cross-curricular links…

Made in Class. Literary Education in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Europe Conference 3-5 December 2025 Literary and Cultural Studies Research Unit, Arts Faculty, KU Leuven MDRN Research Lab KU Leuven Full CfP here

Passion for Poison: The real science of Agatha Christie – Monday 23rd June 2025 at the Royal Institution, London Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books, using poisons more accurately than any other crime writer. But how is it that some chemicals in such small quantities…