Category: News
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Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s
Creating Romanticism Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s Sharon Ruston Paperback edition out June 2016 Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print Paperback 9781349442959 Jun 2016 £19.50 $34.99 Hardback 9781137264282 May 2013 £58.00 $95.00 264 pp 216 mm x 138 mm Introduction Mary Wollstonecraft…
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BSLS/JLS Essay Prize Deadline Approaching
The deadline for the 2016 prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science approaches fast – Friday 17th June. Additional submissions in the time before the deadline are very much encouraged. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal.…
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May 2016 in BSLS Reviews
Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in May 2016 Elizabeth Yale, Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain Justin D Edwards (ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic Tim Lewens,…
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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.
