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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

  Venue:  the Lincoln Drill Hall, Free School Lane, Lincoln. LN2 1EY Date: 31st October 2018 (9.30am-4pm) Keynote speaker: Professor Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia) Ticket price: £7.50 (including a light lunch). Available from http://lncn.eu/frank   In celebration of the bi-centenary of the publication of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the University…

Brighten those dreary nights in November with a visit to Edinburgh and the lively Fates of Frankenstein conference: this is a 2-day conference about Frankenstein’s legacies in popular culture. We are thrilled to be hosting keynote speakers Dr Daniel Cook, University of Dundee, and Professor Catherine Spooner, University of Lancaster. For the full programme and…

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