Category: News
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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…
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BSLS/JLS Essay Prize Winner 2016
The BSLS are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the essay prize jointly awarded with the Journal of Literature and Science is Rachel Murray’s essay titled ‘Vermicular Origins: The Creative Evolution of Samuel Beckett’s Worm’. We offer our many congratulations to Rachel. The judges wrote: “This essay offers a meticulously researched, original account of the…
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Literature and Science Survey – Call for Participation
We are conducting a short survey to gauge how literature and science scholars perceive science in relation to their own work. Our aim is to establish whether there are particular conceptions of science and of scholarly practice in relation to it that are prevalent among literature and science scholars at large or among particular communities…
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BSLS Small Grants Scheme and Postgraduate Conference Fund – Call for Applications
For the coming academic year, these two funding streams will invite applications twice, with deadlines in September and March. Applications are now invited for the next round of both competitions, each with a deadline of 1st September 2016. BSLS Small Grants Scheme Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £400…
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Funded PhD Opportunity
A fully funded studentship is available for a PhD in literary studies at Roehampton. This will be supervised by Dr Shelley Trower and needs to match with her expertise (eg. in reading, oral history, sound, science and literature, Gothic, Victorian) Full details can be found at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANZ659/postgraduate-research-studentship-shelley-trower/
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Journal of Science and Popular Culture
The first volume of the Journal of Science and Popular Culture (comprising two issues) is currently being assembled for publication and will be available in October 2017 and early 2018. If you would like to contribute to either issue please send proposals or full articles to the Editor, Dr Steven Gil, at steven.gil@qut.edu.au. The Journal…
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June 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in June 2016 Maria Zarimis, Darwin’s Footprint: Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880-1930s) Lorraine Ryan, Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millennial Spanish Narrative A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found here. Please email Gavin Budge…
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Winter Symposium 2016 – Call for hosts
Winter Symposium – The Politics of Literature and Science BSLS members are invited to send in proposals to host the third BSLS one-day symposium in November 2016. At the AGM, the BSLS membership voted again to support, in addition to the annual conference, a one-day symposium in November 2016 on the theme of the politics…
