Category: News
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University of Pennsylvania English Department Assistant Professor in Literature and Science before 1900
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…
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BSLS/JLS Essay Prize 2015 Winner
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…
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BSLS Small Grant Scheme 2015
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…
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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…
