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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 next session with Jim…

Tuesday, Mar 3 from 6 pm to 8 pm (in person) The IAS welcomes Niall Sreenan for the launch of his book Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel. Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction. Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution began a revolution in thought, displacing the human from the centre of the natural order and…

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…

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…

See the full call for contributions to this edited volume here.

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…

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…

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…

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…