Category: News
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BSLS 2017 Conference
The annual conference for 2017 will be held at Bristol University from 6th-8th April next year. Rosalind Powell will be leading the Bristol team. As usual, a call for papers will go out in the Autumn, with a deadline in early December. Decisions on accepted papers and panels will be announced in January. There will…
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April 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in April 2016 Suzanne Keen, Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination Yasmin Solomonescu , John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination Jennifer Phegley et al, (eds.), Transatlantic Sensations A list of books for which we are currently seeking reviewers can be found…
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Science in Public conference
Registration open: Science in Public 2016 University of Kent, Canterbury, 13-15 July 2016 Registration for the Science in Public 2016 conference is now open via this link. The early bird rate is available until 20 May. A draft timetable for the conference runs from lunchtime on Wednesday 13 July to about 3pm on Friday…
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ANIMALS : Non-Human and Human Alike – University of Bristol 17-26 May
The Wild Within – Harriet Ritvo Public Lecture. 17th May 2016 5.15pm, The Peel Lecture Theatre, Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, BS8 1SS. Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, will be giving the opening Public Lecture to a…
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The Eye’s Mind: Visual Imagination, Neuroscience and the Humanities
A conference will take place at UEA next month, organised by Matthew MacKisack (Exeter Medical School), which will explore ideas about the role of imagination and imagery in science and culture: https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/research/neuroscience/theeyesmind/conference/ An international conference at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 21 – 22 May 2016 The visual imagination is one…
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Public Health and Private Pain: A night of medical history and drama
Enter the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford for a unique evening of performance and drama. Drawing from a rich variety of medical plays and historical material, the event will illuminate, provoke, and dramatize developments which have shaped ideas of the body from the 18th century to the present day. In the 18th…
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Diseases of Modern Life seminar series
For the summer term seminars in Oxford University’s Diseases of Modern Life series, click here.
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March 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in March 2016 Daniel Brown, The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense Mary Thomas Crane, Losing touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England Allen MacDuffie, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination Christina Walter, Optical Impersonality: Science,…
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Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries
The closing date for the next round of the Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries scheme is 1st April 2016. This scheme is for small and medium-scale research projects based on library or archive collections supported by the Wellcome Trust. Projects must focus either on Wellcome Library holdings or on any collection supported by a previous Wellcome Trust Research Resources grant,…
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BSLS 2016 Conference Programme
The full programme for the 2016 BSLS conference at the University of Birmingham is now available BSLS 2016 – Provisional Programme 2nd edn. For details of how register to attend the conference, please see this link.
