Category: News

  • A Pre-Raphaelite Museum

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    In the 1850s, when Oxford University scientists were seeking inspiration for their new Museum, they turned to the bold, avant-garde art movement of their day – the Pre-Raphaelites. Guided by John Ruskin’s call for ‘truth to nature’ in art, their principles and practices shaped the decoration of this intricate and stunning building. In a talk…

  • CFP: Cognitive Futures in the Humanities conference

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    Cognitive Futures in the Humanities 1st International Conference 4-6 APRIL 2013, BANGOR UNIVERSITY SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS How can the term ‘cognitive humanities’ be defined? What methodological innovation can take place at the intersection of cognitive science, literature and the arts? We invite 20-minute paper submissions and poster submissions for a major interdisciplinary conference organized…

  • Martin Willis’s Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 wins ESSE book prize

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    Hearty congratulations to Martin Willis, whose book Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920: Ocular Horizons (Pickering & Chatto, 2011), winner of the BSLS Book Prize in 2011, has recently won the ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) award in ‘Cultural Studies in English’.

  • Enlightenment, Science and Culture in the East Midlands conference

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    Enlightenment, Science and Culture in the East Midlands c1700-1900 Saturday 22nd June 2013 University of Derby   This conference examines the impact of scientific and intellectual cultures in the English East Midland counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland between 1700 and 1900. Social and economic developments in the period brought major changes…

  • BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2013

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    The British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2013 University of Kent, Canterbury 3 – 5 January 2013 This annual 3-day event gives postgraduates in the history of science, technology and medicine a chance to get to know each other and to present their work to a wider audience. The conference is organised…

  • The Value of the Literary and Historical Study of Biology to Biologists – Scoping Study published

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    What in practice can science learn from the humanities? That is the question that a team of biologists, literary critics and historians at the University of Reading set out to answer in an AHRC-funded project that has generated some new insights into the relationship between the two fields. A workshop, entitled ‘Cultivating Common Ground: Biology and the Humanities’,…

  • British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2013 – Call for Papers

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    The British Society for Literature and Science invites proposals for papers and panels to be delivered at its eighth annual conference to be held in Cardiff, 11-13 April 2013, by Cardiff University and the University of Glamorgan. The BSLS Conference does not have a theme (as it its usual practise) but especially welcomes proposals on the…

  • BSLS and JLS early career essay prize

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    The British Society for Literature and Science and the Journal of Literature and Science would like to announce a prize for the best new essay by an early career scholar on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. They should be between 6,000 and 8,000…

  • Poetry of science event in Oxford

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    On Thursday 25th October at 7 pm John Holmes from the University of Reading and the poet Lesley Saunders will be reading and discussing poetry and science at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. Admission is free, and all are welcome. For more details, see the poster below, or go to www.mhs.ox.ac.uk.

  • London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group

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    London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group Vision and Images 6-8pm, 22nd January 2013 The Science Museum’s Dana Centre 165 Queen’s Gate South Kensington London Please see http://londoninterdisciplinarydiscussiongroup.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/vision-and-images-22nd-january-2013/ for full details of this event and further information on all the speakers.   At this meeting our speakers Helen Barron, Matteo Farinella, Ludmilla Jordanova, Toby Ward and Lucy Wilford…

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