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CFP: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century St Anne’s College, Oxford 10th – 11th September 2016   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: CHRISTOPHER HAMLIN AND LAURA OTIS   In our current ‘Information Age’ we suffer as never before, it is claimed, from the stresses of an overload of information, and the speed of global networks. The…

What does it mean to ‘regenerate’, and what are the scientific, social, cultural and ethical implications of regeneration in its various forms? From biomedical engineering to stem cell therapy, the growth of regenerative medicine in the modern context has the potential to address challenges raised by stretched supplies of organ donors, chronic diseases and ageing…

Science in the Archive Registration   Registration will open on Monday 12th October. Space is limited so sign up early. Sign up is taking place through Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-in-the-archives-bsls-winter-symposium-tickets-18860410997   Event Details: Location: Museum of English Rural Life and University of Reading’s Special Collections Date: Saturday 14th November 2015 Organisers: Verity Burke and Clare Stainthorp, at…

The next meeting of the group will be at the Lit and Phil Library, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 28 October between 6.00 pm  and 7.30 pm. Dr. Emily Alder, Edinburgh Napier University, will introduce a session entitled ‘Edith Nesbit’s Dreadful Researches’.   Edith Nesbit is best known for her children’s stories (Five…

Nominations are now being accepted for the BSLS Book Prize 2015. Inaugurated in 2007, the annual British Society for Literature and Science book prize is awarded for the best book in the field of literature and science published that year. Any book is eligible, but can only be considered if it is nominated either by…

Anthony Peake and Katy Price will be giving lectures on ‘J. B. Priestley, Dreams and Time at the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London, between 2 – 4pm on Saturday 31 October. To register and book a free place visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jb-priestley-society-annual-lecture-2015. The lectures are free and open to the public as well as…

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…