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To mark the 35th anniversary of the publication of Professor Dame Gillian Beer’s ground-breaking study of the relations between science and literature, the British Society for Literature and Science is sponsoring an afternoon’s discussion with Gillian Beer, the BSLS President, at the Natural History Museum in Oxford on Saturday April 7th.   Venue: Lecture Theatre,…

Registration is now open for the British Society of Literature & Science at Oxford Brookes, 5-7 April 2018.  Registration will remain open until Monday 26th March.  Please make sure you select the right option – there are two booking sites – one for postgraduate students/unwaged and the other the full standard option for those of us…

Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in February 2018 Melissa Bailes, Questioning Nature. British Women’s Scientific Writing & Literary Originality 1750-1830 David Bradshaw, Laura Marcus, Rebecca Roach (eds), Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity Leif Weatherby, Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx Kenneth Asher,…

***EXTENDED DEADLINE FEBRUARY 23, 2018***   Humans have a flair for attributing intentions, traits, agency, emotions and mental states to beings or things – either real or imagined. Whether anthropomorphising natural or abstract shapes, playing with imaginary companions, (re) constructing fictional characters and dialoguing with gods or hallucinatory presences, the attribution of an agentive mentality…

BSLS Executive Committee Positions Six positions on the BSLS Executive Committee will be either vacant or up for renewal in April: Chair, Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Book Reviews Officer, Member at Large, and Early Career Member at Large. Present incumbents in two of the positions (Treasurer & Early Career Member at Large) are seeking to continue…

University of Leeds Registration is now open for “New Historical Perspectives on Ageing and the Life Course”. This free two-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Leeds, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will bring together speakers in the humanities and social sciences from Europe, America, and Asia to share new perspectives on…

Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st March 2018.

There will be three seminars in the Oxford University Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series this term. For details, click below: Oxford Seminars Spring 2018