Category: News

  • Conference reminder: Darwin/ Tennyson bicentenary

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    Please note that the Darwin Tennyson and their Readers bicentenary conference takes place on Saturday 17th October 2009 not 17th September.

  • Darwin on Stage, Darwin in Poetry

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    On Wednesday 8th July at 2 p.m. at the Cambridge Darwin Festival, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and John Holmes will be interviewing a number of contemporary writers about the impact of Darwin and his ideas on their work. Speakers will include the playwrights Craig Baxter and Peter Parnell and the poets Ruth Padel, John Barnie and Kelley…

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    THE EMBALMER’S BOOK OF RECIPES: a new novel by Ann Lingard Indepenpress   Ann Lingard is a former scientist, and founder of  SciTalk (www.scitalk.org.uk) the free resource that helps fiction-writers to find out about modern science, and meet and talk to scientists; all her own novels have some science and scientists in them, but are…

  • Royal Institution July Event

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    Tuesday 28 July 7.00pm–8.30pm Decoding the heavens Speaker: Jo Marchant In 1900, a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an ancient shipwreck, dating from around 70 BC. Lying unnoticed for months amongst the divers’ hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless lump of corroded rock. Then it cracked…

  • Conference: Darwin, Tennyson, and their Readers

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    DARWIN, TENNYSON and their READERS: A Bicentenary Celebration, 1809-2009 2009 marks the bicentenary of the birth of both Charles Darwin and Alfred Tennyson. Our one-day conference will celebrate this event by exploring the interaction of literature and science in the Victorian period, mining the rich vein of research opened up by Professor Dame Gillian Beer…

  • Cfp: ‘Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism’

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    Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 13: Victorian Ecology Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, the journal of ASLE-UK (the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), explores interdisciplinary interfaces between humans and the natural and built environment. Submissions are invited for our spring 2010 edition which will focus on ecological themes in Victorian Literature…

  • AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award: Humphry Davy

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    Poetry and Science: The Case of Humphry Davy Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD award to study the manuscript and published poetry of the chemist Humphry Davy, 1778–1829. This collaborative award, to be supervised jointly by experts at the University of Salford and the Royal Institution of Great Britain (www.rigb.org), will involve the student…

  • Cfp: Looking back on the End of Time

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    Looking back on the End of Time — Modernism and Beyond University of East Anglia, UK Keynote Speakers: Prof. Randall Stevenson (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Bryony Randall (University of Glasgow) At the turn of the twentieth century developments in the sciences and technology seemed to necessitate a radical review of the nature, perhaps even…

  • New BSLS Executive Committee

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    As announced at our AGM at the Reading Conference, none of the vacancies on the BSLS Executive was contested, and the following officers were elected unopposed: Chair: Michael Whitworth (proposed by Sharon Ruston & John Holmes) Secretary: Kelley Swain (proposed by John Holmes & Melanie Keene) Treasurer: Dan Cordle (proposed by Jon Adams & Sharon…

  • BSLS book prize awarded to George Levine

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is pleased to announce the winner of its annual book prize. The prize of £150, for the best monograph or collection of essays published in 2008, has been awarded to George Levine for Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science (Cambridge University Press). The book…

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