Category: News
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BSLS/JLS ECR Essay Prize 2018 – The Results
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…
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BSLS Book Prize 2018
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…
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‘Humphry Davy: Laughing gas, literature and the lamp’
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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‘Frankenstein at 200’, a Public Event in the city of Lincoln
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…
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The Fates of Frankenstein: Edinburgh Napier University, 23-24 November 2018
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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August 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2018 Paul Stephens, The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Bennett Zon, Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture Robert Lanier Reid, Renaissance Psychologies: Spenser and Shakespeare Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, Frode Helland, and Joanne Tompkins, A Global…
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Call for Papers: MLA International Symposium – Deadline: 21 Sep 2018
https://symposium.mla.org/lisbon/remembering-voices-lost/
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 31st August 2018
For those intending to submit an entry for this year’s essay prize, the JLS website is currently unavailable for technical reasons and is unlikely to be back online before the 31st August deadline. If you would like to view sample essays which have won the prize in previous years you may do so through the following…
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July 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in July 2018 Peter J. Bowler, A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov Debra Hawhee, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation D. Harlan Wilson, J.G. Ballard Ursula K. Heise, Imagining Extinction: The…
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June 2018 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in June 2018 Naomi Rokotnitz, Trusting Performance: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama Heather Tilley, Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing Lana Lin, Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer Clare Brant, Balloon…
