Category: News
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New book series on North American Literature and the Environment, 1600-1900
Ashgate have just announced a new book series on North American Literature and the Environment, 1600-1900. To read more about it, including how to submit a proposal, click below: New Ashgate Series flyer
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**Extended deadline** CFP: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2015 University of Exeter, 20-21 July 2015
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Stuart Murray, University of Leeds Dr Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick Building on the success of last year’s Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, this conference aims to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines in a manner that reflects the broad scope of exciting research being carried out in the…
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PhD funding on Darwinian medicine
Applications are invited for a 3-year fully funded PhD project on ‘Evolution and the Hygienic City: Darwinian medicine in fin-de-siècle Belfast’ to begin October 2015 and based at Queen’s University Belfast. For full details, click here: Darwinian Medicine PhD
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Book prize 2014: nominations
Nominations for The British Society for Literature and Science book prize 2014 are now being sought. All nominated books must be dated 2014 and should be academic titles (usually monographs or essay collections) in the area of literature and science (including technology and medicine, in all periods). The prize is not open to creative writing.…
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CfP: Abnormality and the Abnormal in the Nineteenth Century
Abnormality and the Abnormal in the Nineteenth Century, 7 May 2015, Durham University This one-day interdisciplinary conference, organised by the Postgraduate Representatives for the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at Durham University, aims to explore categorisations, explanations, and implications of abnormality in the long nineteenth century, asking what the abnormal can tell us about long nineteenth…
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2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The Royal Society is pleased to announce that entries for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books are now being accepted. The 2015 prize will celebrate the best of outstanding popular science books from around the world. This prestigious prize is open to authors of science books that are accessible and compelling accounts…
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Oxford C19th Science, Medicine and Culture seminars
The programme for next term’s seminar series at Oxford University on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century has been announced. For details, visit the website of the Constructing Scientific Communities project.
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BSLS 2015 cfp – deadline approaching
This is a reminder that the deadline for the call for papers for next year’s BSLS conference, to be held at the University of Liverpool on April 16-18, is approaching. Please can you send your proposals to Greg Lynall at Liverpool by Friday 5th December. Here are the full details, from our earlier post: The…
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David Amigoni speaking on Galton and Pearson
The next seminar in the UCL Science and Literature Seminar Series will be given by Prof David Amigoni of Keele University on ‘Francis Galton, Karl Pearson and the Biographical Laboratory’. Date, time and place: Tuesday, 2nd December, 5.30-7.30pm. G24 Foster Court, UCL – all welcome. Abstract: This talk will explore Francis Galton’s use of biography;…
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Michael Whitworth on Poetry and Science
Michael Whitworth, Chair of the BSLS from 2009 to 2012, has recently given a talk on Poetry and Science in the 1920s and 1930s at the Oxford Literature and Science seminar. To watch Michael’s talk on video, click here.
