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The cognitive biologist, W. Tecumseh Fitch begins The Evolution of Language (2010) with the Persian tale of the ‘elephant in the dark house’: each villager touches a different part of the animal and tries to describe what its shape is ‘like’, but none can see, or comprehend, the whole. This parable, as Fitch suggests, raises…

The Science Fiction Foundation began in 1971 at the former North East London Polytechnic with the joint aim of promoting academic research into sf and greater public understanding of the genre. It has since become a UK-wide network of academics, critics and professional writers with its nominal base at the University of Liverpool, home to…

SCIENCEHUMANITIES INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UK MONDAY 30 APRIL – FRIDAY 4 MAY 2018 Keynote Speaker: Professor N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University) In 2018 Cardiff University’s ScienceHumanities research group will host a week-long International Summer School dedicated to the examination of the relations between the humanities and the sciences. The Summer School programme features…

The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University presents Imagineers in Circus and Science: Scientific knowledge and creative imagination Tuesday 3 – Thursday 5 April 2018   Scientists seek to investigate the ways in which nature works and to ask how humanity can best comprehend different aspects of the universe. By challenging conventional wisdom,…

The winner of the 2016 Book Prize is Ursula K. Heise’s Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (University of Chicago Press). This remarkable, lucid examination of how contemporary culture produces understandings of imperilled nature breaks new ground in its thinking about environmental crisis — local and global — and, particularly, the terms in…

This trans-Atlantic, 2-panel event pairs a panel at the British Society of Literature and Science (BSLS) in Bristol in April 2017 with a roundtable at the annual conference of the Association of Community College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) at the Congress of Learned Societies in Toronto in May 2017.   Four papers were…

A workshop at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh 29th May 2017 Keynote: Professor Peter Middleton, University of Southampton ‘Poetry at the Frontiers of Physics’ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nuclear-nature-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-theorising-the-anthropocene-after-quantum-physics-tickets-33614562060?aff=ampmlt 

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new series of books entitled Explorations in Science and Literature, to be published by Bloomsbury. Here is the call for proposals: Explorations in Science and Literature We look forward very much to hearing your ideas for exciting new books in our field that speak to audiences across literary scholarship and the…