Category: News

  • October 2018 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in October 2018   Steven Meyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science Andrew Gaedtke, Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds Matthew Wilson Smith, The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theater Jonathan…

  • CFP: ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference, 4-6 September 2019

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    CALL FOR PAPERS: ASLE-UKI BIENNIAL CONFERENCE 2019 4th to 6th September 2019, University of Plymouth The University of Plymouth is delighted to be hosting the 2019 Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland. Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia) David Higgins (University of…

  • Full Moon: A Night of Poetry and Science

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    ***50% discount available to BSLS members***.   An unmissable evening where poetry and science meet and share a stage, a night that will sparkle with readings and short talks, when we will hear the poetry of science and see how the scientific entreprise opens up realms of poetry. Join us on this epic journey of…

  • TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Project between the University of Roehampton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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    Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew’s imperial archive: Cataloguing Economic Botany in the Miscellaneous Reports, 1841-1928 This studentship offers the opportunity to research and study the history, composition and arrangement of a major collection held in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: the…

  • ‘Men and Beasts’, Seminar with Maureen Duffy, 24th October.

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    On Wednesday 24th October, Maureen Duffy, D.Litt, King’s Fellow, author and pioneering activist will read several pieces from her own work, followed by a Q and A session. All welcome. 6-7:30pm, S8.08, Department of History, Strand Campus, King’s College London. Further information can be found at – https://animalhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ or by emailing animalhistorygroup@gmail.com No need to book,…

  • EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP: BSLS Winter Symposium 2018: Environments of Literature and Science

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    Date: Saturday 24th November 2018 (10:00 – 18:00) Location: Cardiff University Organisers: Joan Passey (Exeter, jp374@exeter.ac.uk), Louise Benson-James (Bristol, louise.bensonjames@bristol.ac.uk), Jim Scown (Cardiff, scownj@cardiff.ac.uk) Keynote: ‘Biggish Data: Friedrich Engels, Material Ecology, and Victorian Data’ by John Parham, University of Worcester The Environmental Humanities have gained momentum relatively recently, contributing to developing theories of the Anthropocene, responding to rapid changes in climate, and…

  • CFP: The British Society for Literature and Science Fourteenth Annual Conference, Royal Holloway (University of London), 4-6 April 2019

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    CALL FOR PAPERS The fourteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Thursday 4 April until Saturday 6 April 2019. Keynote speakers will include Professor Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway) and Professor Angelique Richardson (Exeter). The BSLS invites proposals for 20-minute papers, panels…

  • BSLS/JLS ECR Essay Prize 2018 – The Results

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    We are delighted to announce that the British Society for Literature and Science and Journal of Literature and Science prize for an essay by an early-career scholar has been won by Lara Choksey for her essay “Peripheral Adaptation: Living with Climate Change in Doris Lessing’s The Making of the Representative for Planet 8”.   We offer our congratulations to Lara…

  • BSLS Book Prize 2018

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    Nominations are now being accepted for the BSLS Book Prize 2018. Inaugurated in 2007, the annual British Society for Literature and Science book prize is awarded for the best book in the field of literature and science published that year. Any book is eligible, but can only be considered if it is nominated either by…

  • ‘Humphry Davy: Laughing gas, literature and the lamp’

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    Free online course (MOOC) starting 29 October 2018 – Open to all Sign up today at http://www.futurelearn.com/courses/humphry-davy The MOOC is intended for anyone with an interest in Humphry Davy, or early nineteenth-century literature, science, or history. It will explore some of the most significant moments of Davy’s life and career, including his childhood in Cornwall,…

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