Category: News

  • BSLS Special offer, book discount

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    The latest volume of Essays and Studies is Literature and Science edited by Sharon Ruston. Publishers Boydell & Brewer generously offer BSLS members and readers a 25% discount. Just fill in this form (pdf) and send it to Boydell & Brewer to receive your discount (or alternatively order online). Read Laura Daniels review on the…

  • Art and Science Now: The Two Cultures in Question

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    On 7 May 1959, C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture in Cambridge. His influential and controversial address on the subject of ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’ critiqued an increasing fissure between ‘literary intellectuals’ and ‘natural scientists’. The London Consortium is bringing together the Science Museum, Tate Modern and Birkbeck, University of London,…

  • Darwin Festival 2009

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    Booking for the Darwin Festival in Cambridge, 5-10 July 2009, is now open. Among events that may be of interest to BSLS members: Wednesday July 8th A.S. Byatt in conversation with Professor Gillian Beer and Ian McEwan in conversation with Professor David Amigoni Wednesday July 8th and Thursday July 9th Sessions on Darwin on stage,…

  • BSLS Book Prize for 2008

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    The British Society for Literature and Science is pleased to invite nominations for the annual BSLS Book Prize. The prize of £150 will be awarded to the best book published in 2008 in the field of literature and science. We therefore invite nominations, including self-nominations, for books to be considered. Monographs, edited volumes, editions, and…

  • CFP: Fourth Annual Science and the Public Conference

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    University of Brighton, June 13th and 14th 2009. Science and the public: uncertain pasts, presents and futures. The relationship between science and the public has provided fruitful material for analysis from a range of academic disciplines, and an important area of policy and practice, in recent years. Studies and experience have revealed a startling complexity,…

  • Colloquium: Charles Darwin in Europe

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    A one-day colloquium on Charles Darwin in Europe will be held at Darwin’s college Christ’s, Cambridge, on Thursday 26 February 2009 to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth as well as the launch of *The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe*, edited by Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick. The colloquium will continue the discussions…

  • CFP: ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

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    ‘Phobia’ Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science University of Glamorgan | The ATRiuM Campus Cardiff 8-9 May 2009 Keynote Speakers: Laura Otis (Emory University) | Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University) CALL FOR PAPERS The history of phobias as disease entities is intimately connected…

  • CFP: British Society for Literature and Science conference 2009

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    The 4th annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Reading on 27th-29th March, 2009. Keynote speakers will include Dame Gillian Beer, formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge; Patrick Parrinder, Professor of English at the University of Reading; and Simon Conway Morris,…

  • BSLS 2009 dates announced

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    The next conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will be held at the University of Reading from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 March, 2009. Keynote speakers will include Dame Gillian Beer (King Edward VII Professor Emerita at Cambridge University), Patrick Parrinder (Professor of English Literature at Reading University), and Simon Conway Morris…

  • BSLS book prize winner

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    The committee of the BSLS is delighted to announce that Ralph O’Connor’s book The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 (U of Chicago P, 2007) has been awarded the Society’s first book prize. The book is a deeply-researched, ambitious and elegant account of early nineteenth-century literary and scientific writing on…

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