Category: News
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Romanticism and the South West
Registration is now open for a one-day conference on the subject of ‘Romanticism and the South West’, a conference which re-assesses the importance of the South West in Romantic thought and writing. The conference aims to explore the importance of the South West for Romantic writers, with a particular emphasis on the following topics: Ecologically…
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2015 BSLS Symposium – Call for Proposals
BSLS members are invited to send in proposals to host the second BSLS one-day symposium in November or December 2015. At the AGM, the BSLS membership voted again to support, in addition to the annual conference, a one-day symposium in November or December 2015 on any theme related to the recent conference or the research…
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Reading IRHS guest lecture on literature, evolution and religion
This year’s annual guest lecture at the centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the Humanities and Science at the University of Reading will be given by Prof Michael Ruse from Florida State University: Title: Is Evolution a Religion? A View From Literature Venue: The Harborne Lecture Theatre, University of Reading (Building 31 on the campus map) Date: Tuesday 26th May Time:…
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BSLS Executive Committee 2015 – 2016
At the 2015 AGM several members of the Executive Committee came to the end of their tenure, and new members were elected. This is the membership of the Executive Committee for 2015-2016. Chair: Martin Willis (University of Westminster) – M.Willis@westminster.ac.uk Secretary: Peter Middleton (University of Southampton) – p.middleton@soton.ac.uk Treasurer: Michael Whitworth (Merton College, University of…
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Analogy in Literature and Science: Bursaries for Doctoral Students
A British Academy-funded workshop will be held in Cambridge on analogy in literature and science, 3-4 September 2015. How do we identify and select analogies in and between our primary sources, and how do we use analogies in our own arguments? Which ideas about analogy can we usefully borrow or adapt from cognate areas? Workshop…
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ELINAS lecture series on Narrating Science
The ELINAS centre at the Friedrich-Alexander University at Erlangen-Nuremberg is hosting a series of lectures on Narrating Science. To see the full programme, click below: Flyer ELINAS-RV-Narrating Science
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Book prize winner
The winner of the 2014 BSLS Book Prize is Leah Knight for Reading Green in Early Modern England (Ashgate). Congratulations to Prof. Knight, of Brock University, not only for being a worthy winner for her fascinating, innovative and ambitious exploration of the significations of ‘green’ in the writing and culture of the English Renaissance, but also for…
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PhD studentships in Literature and Science at University of Westminster
The Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster is pleased to offer two studentships to prospective PhD students to begin in September 2015. In the UK Government’s REF 2014 assessment of research activity, English at Westminster was ranked 28th out of 89 departments in Britain, with 79% of its work…
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Postdoctoral position at University of Liverpool
William Noble Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool For more details please click on the link below- http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/research/r-587941/
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PhD Studentship at the Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent
The Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent, offers a fully-funded PhD to work with Dr Rebekah Higgitt. Literary angles on the following suggested topics are welcome (the final topic is specifically textual in nature): History of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Royal Greenwich Observatory, especially in the 20th century Science and/or…
