Category: News
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August 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2017 Katharina Boehm, Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman Janina Wellmann, The Form of Becoming. Embryology and the…
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CFP: J.G. Ballard and the Sciences
A one-day international and cross-disciplinary conference exploring the intersections of the work of J.G. Ballard and the sciences. 25 November 2017 LAB 109, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Key Note Speaker: Christopher Priest Hosted by the Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy (CSFF) “Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate…
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JLS: CALL FOR REVIEWERS
The Journal of Literature and Science http://www.literatureandscience.org is once again looking for reviewers to review various articles in the field of literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. Please find below a number of articles that we would like to offer for review in the Journal. The list is by no…
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Humphry Davy: Laughing gas, literature and the lamp
BSLS members will remember Professor Sharon Ruston’s excellent plenary lecture on Davy at our 2016 conference in Birmingham. Sharon’s new 4-week MOOC, Humphry Davy: Laughing Gas, Literature, and the Lamp, starts on 30 October. The course draws on her research as co-editor of Davy’s Collected Letters and her work on Romantic-era literature and science, and is…
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July 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in July 2017 Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence Gillian Beer, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds.), Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power Andrew…
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BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize – Deadline 11th August 2017
*Reminder* 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 2017 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…
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CFP: Science Studies and the Blue Humanities
Configurations, the journal of SLSA (The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) is seeking submissions for a special issue on Science Studies and the Blue Humanities, edited by Stacy Alaimo. We are interested in essays, position papers, provocations, and artist statements that explore the significance of science studies for the development of the blue…
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Ordering Knowledge, from Bacon to the Shelleys (Strasbourg)
Ordering knowledge, from Bacon to the Shelleys International conference 16-17 March 2018 University of Strasbourg Organised by Pôle Grand-EST-SEAA XVII-XVIII (Société d’Etudes Anglo-Américaines du XVIIe et XVIIe siècles) in collaboration with IDEA (Interdisiciplinarité dans les Etudes Anglophones, Univ. de Lorraine) and SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone : Représentations, Culture, Histoire, Univ. de Strasbourg). Confirmed keynote speakers:…
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June 2017 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in June 2017 Graham Harman, Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory Marc Flandreau, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: a Financial History of Victorian Britain Somogy Varga, Naturalism, Interpretation and Mental Disorder Suzanne Bailey, Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry Mark Offord,…
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Open-access study of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing
Thanks to Wellcome Trust funding, Martina Zimmermann’s new monograph The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing is fully available through open access. To download the book for free from the publisher’s website, click here.
