Category: News

  • BSLS/JLS essay prize winner

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    We are delighted to announce that this year’s essay prize, offered jointly by the British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science, has been won by Emilie Taylor-Brown of the University of Warwick for her essay ‘(Re)Constructing the Knights of Science: Parasitologists and Their Literary Imaginations’. The judges commented: “This is an…

  • BSLS 2015 conference

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    We are delighted to announce that the next BSLS conference will be held at the University of Liverpool on 16th-18th April 2015. The call for papers will be posted in September 2014.

  • Symposium of Teaching Literature and Science reminder

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    The deadline for the competition to host the BSLS symposium on Teaching Literature and Science is in a week’s time. Please can you submit completed bids to the Chair of the BSLS, John Holmes, by 14th July. For full details of the grant and the application process, click here.

  • Diseases of Modern Life website

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    A new website has been launched for Oxford University’s Diseases of Modern Life project, funded by the European Commission.

  • Constructing Scientific Communities – New Web Site Launched

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    Oxford University’s collaborative project ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’ now has a web site. For information, videos, calls for proposals and more, click here

  • JLS call for reviews

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    The Journal of Literature and Science (http://www.literatureandscience.org) is now looking for reviewers to review a wide range of articles in the field literature and science published in the last year to 18 months. The JLS is unique in reviewing journal articles rather than books in the fields of literature and science and the history and philosophy of…

  • Conference on Ageing

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    This is a reminder of the call for papers on the interdisciplinary conference on Ageing: Histories, Mythologies and Taboos to be held in Bergen on 30-31 January 2015. To read the call, click below: Bergen Ageing conference cfp For further information please visit the website: http://www.uib.no/fg/litt_vit/70975/interdisciplinary-conference-ageing-histories-mythologies-and-taboos  

  • Science at the Seaside project

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    ‘Science at the Seaside’ is a collaborative project with Professor John Plunkett (Exeter University), Dr Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (Bath Spa University) and Ilfracombe Museum. It is funded by North Devon Fisheries Local Action Group [FLAG] and will run from October 2013–October 2014. ‘Science at the Seaside’ seeks to engage local communities with a neglected aspect of…

  • Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

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    Institute of Modern Languages Research, London, UK 27-28 June 2014 Fee: £10 / £5 (concs.) Speakers to include: Professor Barbara Gates (University of Delaware) Professor Ann Shteir (York University, Ontario, Canada) Scholars have long been familiar with the scientific endeavours of late 19th-century women travellers like Isabella Bird and Mary Kingsley, but these figures have…

  • Essay competition on science communication

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    At the recent PCST conference in Bahia, the issue of the deficit model was raised, in the session on science communication and its audiences. To stimulate the debate and to contribute to the community, the journal Public Understanding of Science would like to announce an essay competition. The essay title is as follows: “In Science Communication,…

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