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Joanne Ella Parsons (Bath Spa) and Sarah Chaney (UCL) have won a BSLS small grant to stage a public symposium, ‘Body and Mind: Mesmerism in Nineteenth-Century Culture and Literature’, in the autumn.  The event is open to the public and is part of the Damaging the Body seminar series.  It will take place at Bart’s Pathology…

Fondazione Lanza, a Center of Advanced Studies in Ethics (Padua, Italy), in collaboration with the Chair of History of Medicine at the University of Padua and the Chair of Medical Humanities at the Marmara University in Istanbul, is pleased to announce the first edition of the Summer Course on Medical Humanities, that will take place…

Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment An AHRC collaborative skills project hosted by Birkbeck, University of London A number of travel bursaries are available for postgraduates and early career researchers to participate in this project, which uses Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to explore the relationship between arts and science research.…

The winner of the BSLS Book Prize 2012, announced at the recent annual conference in Cardiff, is Theresa Kelley for Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Johns Hopkins UP). Congratulations to Professor Kelley on taking this accolade, in a year with a very strong shortlist. Her book is a major contribution to the understanding of Romanticism and nature,…

World Congress of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, July 2 – 5, 2014 Panel on Scottish Science: The Literature Heat, light, earth, life and air, mathematics, meteorology, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and physics are prominent topics, concerns, and challenges that have attracted Scottish scientists since the sixteenth century and to which they have made major and significant…

An interdisciplinary research conference for postgraduates on Western culture from 1845 to 1945 is to be held at the University of Birmingham on Thursday 27th June 2013. To read the call for papers, click below: InFlux Postgraduate Conference

Energy in Literature: Essays on Energy and Its Social and Environmental Implications in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literary Texts (edited by Paula A. Farca) Call for papers on energy and energy sources in twentieth-century literary texts (any genre, any country). Scholars of all disciplines are encouraged to submit. TrueHeart academic, an independent academic publisher on…

The deadline for the British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science is coming up in a week’s time. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. They should…

The shortlist for the BSLS prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2012 is as follows: Simon de Bourcier, Pynchon and Relativity (Continuum) Theresa Kelley, Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture (Johns Hopkins UP) Gregory Lynall, Swift and Science (Palgrave) Anne Stiles, Popular Fiction and Brain Science in…