Category: News

Call for Reviewers The BSLS Reviews site, <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/>, which publishes c 120 reviews a year, is looking for suitably qualified reviewers for some books that have come in recently, listed on <https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/currently-seeking-reviewers/>. Reviews are c 1000w, and are generally due within three months. If you are interested, please contact the acting Reviews Editor, Gavin Budge,…

Change of Air: Atmosphere, Health, and Locality in the Romantic Era, 1760-1840 14th September 2018 University of Oxford, Radcliffe Humanities Building, 3rd Floor Seminar Room. The pursuit of a ‘change of air’, and its supposed effects on mental and physical health, is one of the most recognisable forms of environmental awareness in the long eighteenth…

Following the success of the JLS/BSLS essay prize in previous years, The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science would like to announce the 2018 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by…

The MDRN research lab at the University of Leuven (Belgium) is launching a new research programme on “Literary Knowledge, 1890-1950: Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe”. Six competitive, full-time doctoral scholarships will be awarded within this programme supervised by Sascha Bru. A call for applications can be found on: http://mdrn.be/news/call-applications-mdrn-award-6-doctoral-scholarships The deadline for applying is…

We are looking forward to over 120 presentations at The Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities conference at the University of Kent. The conference schedule and schedule of panel presentations are now online at our website:  https://research.kent.ac.uk/cognitivefutures2018/schedule-programme/   Registration Rates (3-day attendance, refreshments and lunch included):   Full rate Delegates: £230.00 Students: £170.00  …

Expressions of interest are invited by 1 June in respect of the BSLS Winter Symposium in 2018. As members will remember, this is now a postgraduate and early career researcher-led event and presents a great opportunity to run a successful event at this stage in your career (with help and support from the BSLS Committee…

Registration for the conference is now open and that it closes on the 1st May. The link to registration is here: https://mathematicsandmodernliterature.wordpress.com/register/ There is also a public event on the 3rd May inspired by the conference which is free of charge. It is called ‘In Conversation with Emily Howard: Exploring Mathematics, Music and Literature’, and includes a live…

Conference, Friday 8 June, Birkbeck, London Experiment can describe both strict testing and speculative ‘trying out’, both proof and exploration; it can also refer to the process, the object, and the material apparatus of these activities. Experiment can have connotations of system or method, as is often prominent in the scientific context, or uncontrolled rule-breaking.…