Category: News

  • BSLS Small Grants Scheme: Call for Applications

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    Applications are invited for BSLS small grants of up to £300 to advance and/or promote the study of literature and science. Examples of things for which the awards might be used are expenses for visiting speakers, seminar series and debates, and other funding to stage events on literature and science.  The scheme is not intended…

  • New books on literature and science at a discount

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    We are pleased to be able to offer BSLS members and other users of this website a discount on two books on literature and science. Sharon Ruston’s Creating Romanticism: Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s is being published this month by Palgrave Macmillan. John Holmes’s Darwin’s Bards: British and American Poetry in…

  • Fractured Histories: Discovering Women Scientists in the Archive

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    The Women in Science Research Network is holding a workshop at the Royal Society on 16th July on the use of archival research to identify women working in science from 1830 to the present. To see the full details of the workshop, with instructions on how to register, click here. FRACTURED_HISTORIES_Final_Workshop_Call

  • Conference on Motion

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    Registration for in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion on 27th June at the University of Birmingham is now open at http://pgculturalmodernity.wordpress.com/. The event is free and open to all who are interested. If you would like any further information, please email pgculturalmodernity@contacts.bham.ac.uk. in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham  

  • Discovering John Lubbock

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    ‘Discovering John Lubbock’ Saturday 1st June 2013, 11am — 1pm, Bromley Museum ‘Discovering John Lubbock’ is a unique event at Bromley museum marking the centenary of Sir John Lubbock, 1st Lord Avebury. Marie Louise Kerr will be in conversation with Lyulph Lubbock, the great grandson of John Lubbock and Dr. Janet Owen, author of Darwin’s…

  • BSLS/JLS Essay Prize – The Results

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    We are delighted to announce that the first joint British Society for Literature and Science and Journal of Literature and Science prize for an essay by an early-career scholar has been won by Rachel Crossland for her essay ‘”Multitudinous and minute”: Early Twentieth-Century Scientific, Literary and Psychological Representations of the Mass’. Out of a strong field, this…

  • New Generation Thinkers

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    The BSLS is delighted to announce that three of our members are among the ten academics chosen by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as New Generation Thinkers for 2013. Very many congratulations to Sarah Dillon, Alice Hall and Gregory Tate. To read about their work, and the rest of the…

  • Gothic and Medical Humanities Call for Papers

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    Proposals are invited for a special issue of Gothic Studies exploring intersections between the Gothic and medical humanities. Gothic studies has long grappled with suffering bodies, and the fragility of human flesh in the grip of medical and legal discourse continues to be manifest in chilling literature and film. The direction of influence goes both…

  • Silent Spring workshop

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    Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment: An AHRC collaborative skills project hosted by Birkbeck, University of London June 7th 2013, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London Rachel Carson’s classic polemic Silent Spring celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012: it still stands as one of the most influential texts on the damage…

  • Journal of Literature and Science: Call for Reviewers

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    CALL FOR REVIEWERS: As some of you will already know, the Journal of Literature and Science has now moved to the University of Westminster http://www.literatureandscience.org. With that move, Martin Willis, our Editor-in-Chief, has kindly asked me to take over as reviews editor. The Journal reviews section does not review books, but, quite uniquely, focuses attention instead…

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