Category: News

  • Commission on Science and Literature website

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    The Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit) has launched its new website. Click here to take a look. The website includes the list of the newly elected Officers of the Commission, and the call for papers for the next CoSciLit conference to be held in Pöllau, Austria on 7-9 September 2016.  

  • EJES special issue: Poetry, Science and Technology

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    The European Journal for English Studies will be publishing a special issue on Poetry, Science and Technology, edited by Irmtraud Huber (Berne) and Wolfgang Funk (Mainz). The deadline for proposals is 31 Oct 2016; the deadline for completed articles is 31 March 2017. In addition to the Editors’ judgements, EJES follows a rigorous double blind peer-review process. To read the…

  • Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century Research Group

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      The next meeting of the Research Group will take place on Wednesday 17 February 2016 at the Lit and Phil Library in Newcastle upon Tyne between 6.00 pm and 7.30 pm. Dr Tricia Cresswell, Public Health doctor and MA student in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, will present a paper and lead a discussion…

  • January 2016 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in January 2016 Evan Gottlieb and Juliet Shields (eds.) Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660–1830: From Local to Global Johan Höglund, The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence Brad Pasanek, Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary Victoria Flanagan, Technology…

  • British Library Internships – Science in Society

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    The British Library are offering 3-month internships to PhD students, and one of the offered positions is in the field of ‘Science in Society’. http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/highered/phd-placement-scheme/science-in-society.pdf    

  • 2nd Newsletter for the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science (ELINAS) now available

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    The newsletter can be viewed at the following link   http://elinas.fau.de/newsletter/nov15_eng.html    

  • Cities and Science Summer school

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    The Central European University in Budapest is holding its annual Summer University for graduate students, junior or post-doctoral researchers, teachers and professionals on the theme of Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe. The course will take place on 18-27 July 2016, and the…

  • The Nineteenth Century in the Future – Paris Conference

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    “The Nineteenth Century in the future. Thinking, representing and imagining times to come during the 19th Century”. Tuesday 19 January 2016 – Friday 22 January 2016 See the following website for further details: https://www.singer-polignac.org/fr/missions/sciences/colloques/1279-le-xixe-siecle-face-au-futur-penser-representer-rever-l-avenir-au-xixe-siecle  

  • December 2015 in BSLS Reviews

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    Reviews that have appeared on the British Society for Literature and Science website in December 2015 Jennifer Munro, Edward Geisweidt, and Lynne Bruckner (eds.), Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching Gavin Budge, Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852 Christopher Hamlin, More Than Hot: A…

  • Oxford Science, Medicine and Culture seminars

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    In Spring Term 2016 there will be two seminars in the Oxford University series on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at St Anne’s College. Drinks will be served after each seminar and all are welcome.   Wednesday 3 February 2016 (Week 3) Dr Sam Alberti, Director of Museums and Archives, Royal College of Surgeons of England…

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