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The Oxford University seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century will be starting again on 28th October. To read this term’s programme, click on this link: http://diseasesofmodernlife.org/category/events/

The Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project at the University of Glasgow are holding their first workshop, Science Fiction and Public Engagement with Medicine, to be held on Friday the 27th of November 2015 at the University of Glasgow. Our invited speakers are Jenny Kitzinger of Cardiff University and David Lawrence of the Costumed Visions of Enhanced Bodies project.  Those…

The British Society for Literature and Science website now has a new page, listing books that are available to be sent out for review, which you can find here. You do not have to be a member of the society to review books for the website. The Reviews Editor, Gavin Budge, actively welcomes suggestions for…

ESSE 2016, Galway, 22nd – 26th August Further details of ESSE at http://www.esse2016.org/ CFP: In her 1930 essay ‘On Being Ill’ Woolf noted how “strange” it was “that illness ha[d] not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.” Does  Woolf’s comment still hold? A number of scholars…

Palgrave Macmillan are delighted to announce the launch of our new ‘Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine series. To celebrate this, Palgrave is offering a discount on books in the series to members of the BSLS. Just quote ‘PM15THIRTY’ when ordering the book(s) directly from Palgrave Macmillan to get 30% off . You can also…

CFP: Books of Blood: a cross-disciplinary investigation into blood as representation, symbol, and text in modern culture All humans ‘are books of blood—wherever you open us, we’re red’ (Clive Barker). If our bodies are books of blood, then they can be read; we invite such readings and contributions where blood is the signifier. We are…

Museum of English Rural Life and University of Reading’s Special Collections, Saturday 14th November 2015 Archival research has long been a mainstay of literature and science as a discipline, challenging the boundaries of what can be read as text and excavating long-submerged concepts and connections. The recent growth in collaborative doctoral awards and collections-based PhDs,…

University of Pennsylvania Literature and Science, Pre-1900 The English Department invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in literature and science before 1900. Conferral of Ph.D. by July 1, 2016 is expected. All applicants working in the medieval, early modern, long eighteenth-century, Romantic, and Victorian periods will be…

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 Maria Avxentevskaya’s essay titled ‘The Spiritual Optics of Narrative: John Wilkins’s Popularization of Copernicanism’. We offer our many congratulations to Maria. The judging panel wrote: “This a thoroughly convincing and exceptionally well-argued essay…

Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £400 to promote the study of literature and science. We are open to all sorts of proposals other than personal conference expenses. Examples of activities for which the awards might be used are expenses for a visiting speaker, a seminar series or a symposium. Applications…