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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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…