Category: News
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Special issue Launch – Palgrave Communications on Shakespeare
Special issue launch Shakespeare: explorations over time and across disciplines Palgrave Communications is a multi-disciplinary open access journal publishing peer-reviewed original research across all areas of the humanities & the social sciences. To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Palgrave Communications is pleased to announce the launch of a special issue on Shakespeare studies. This special issue presents…
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NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiology Chair
About the Program The Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiology Program establishes a focus in the nation’s capital for the exploration of issues surrounding life’s future in the universe, for humans and other species, on Earth and beyond. The program encourages discussion and reflection on the potential impacts of discovering whether there is life…
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August 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in August 2016 Mark Frost, The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás (eds), Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire J P Telotte & Gerald Duchovnay, eds, Science Fiction,…
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PHD Studentship – Performing Science in the 19th Century
The University of Westminster’s department of English is offering a fully-funded 3 year Full-Time PhD studentship on the topic of performing science in the nineteenth century. Full details can be found at https://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/research-areas/social-sciences-and-humanities/research-studentships/performing-science-in-the-19th-century
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Poetic Botany Exhibition
BSLS member Sam George at Hertfordshire been involved in a collaboration with New York Botanical Gardens for an exhibition on Poetic Botany in the Eighteenth Century. The exhibition can now be seen live at http://www.nybg.org/poetic-botany/.
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JLS/CONFIGURATIONS “DOUBLE ISSUE” CALL FOR PAPERS
THE STATE OF THE UNIONS What are the relations between literature, science and the arts within our field today? This special double issue marks a unique collaboration between the Journal of Literature and Science and Configurations. Across two years – 2017 in the JLS and 2018 in Configurations – we aim to enable scholars of…
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Journal of Literature and Science – Call for Reviewers
The latest call for reviewers from the Journal of Literature and Science is available here: JLS CALL FOR REVIEWERS 2016
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July 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in July 2016 Trevor Dodman, Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I Esther L. Jones, Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction Valerie Purton (ed), Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and…
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CFP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 21-23 October 2016 Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science (http://elinas.fau.de/) See the full CFP here: CfP-Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
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INCS 2017 Conference – ODD BODIES
INCS 2017—ODD BODIES March 16-19, Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia Nineteenth-century bodies were poked and prodded, characterized, caricatured, corseted and cossetted, disciplined, displayed, naturalized, normalized, medicalized, mapped and mechanized. Sciences and pseudosciences brought the body under scrutiny to an unprecedented degree—phrenology, psychology, physiology, anatomy, paleontology, microbiology, germ theory, principles of population, zoology, and sexology, all contributing to the…
