@TheBSLS

The British Society for Literature and Science promotes interdisciplinary research into the relationships of science and literature in all periods.

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Less than two weeks left to submit your abstracts for this year's BSLS Winter Symposium on Occult Science! We've already received some fantastic proposals, so it's shaping up to be an exciting event. @TheBSLS
Marijke Valk@Marijke_ValkSep 9
I'm excited to share the CFP for this year's BSLS Winter Symposium, which I'm thrilled to be organising: 'Occult Science: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and the Persistence of Wonder' Abstract deadline: 31 October 2026 Further details: bsls.ac.uk/2026/09/bsls-2026…
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Very pleased that my article 'Facts and Fictions: Emotional Authenticity and Narrative in Natural History Exhibitions', which close reads the displays of the NHM and the Loch Ness Centre, has been published today! journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/…
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KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: We'll be joined at the @TheBSLS Winter Symposium by @dr_francisray 🌟 sign up for the 'Fat Fictions' symposium by following the QR code below, or at bit.ly/3WgjSSk
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We are thrilled to release the CFP for ‘Unquiet Shores’, a hybrid conference at Edinburgh Napier and online, which we will be hosting in collaboration with the wonderful team at @dansegothic — send us your abstracts on apply coastal acoustics! haunted-shores.com/unquiet-s…

Unquiet Shores 2025

A conference by Danse Macabre and Haunted Shores 18-20 June 2025, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, and online Registration is closed for in-person attendance. You can still regist…

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🎉 CALL FOR PAPERS 🎉 Very excited to share this Call for Papers for a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies I will be editing with Noah Comet at the @NavalAcademy. Deadline: 15 Jan 2025 🔗 Info: bsls.ac.uk/2024/09/cfp-a-spe… #astronomy #gender #histsci #science
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Happy to have my review of Tana Jean Welch's book, Advancing Medical Posthumanism through Twenty-First Century American Poetry, available now @TheBSLS website and can be accessed here: bsls.ac.uk/2024/08/tana-jean…
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📢Registration and the final programme for the conference is now available📢 Please register via the links on our website: natphilwomen.wordpress.com/ Thank you to the support of @CREMSYork @TheBSLS and @SRSRenSoc. #earlymodern #twitterstorians
Programme for 11/07/2024. Arrival and Lunch 12:00 until 13:30. "Sensing Women" Panel starts at 13:30, featuring papers by Olena Morenets, Dr Giacomo Savani and Jimena Ruiz Marron. Break 15:00 until 15:30. "Polite and Satirical Forms in Women's Manuscript Writing" Panel starts at 15:30, featuring papers by Dr Emma Bartel and Dr Cassandra Gorman. Break 16:30 until 17:00. Keynote by Dr Julia Martins called "'Follow What I Say': The Mysterious Isabella Cortese and Early Modern Alchemy" starts at 17:00 and finishes at 18:00.

ALT Programme for 11/07/2024. Arrival and Lunch 12:00 until 13:30. "Sensing Women" Panel starts at 13:30, featuring papers by Olena Morenets, Dr Giacomo Savani and Jimena Ruiz Marron. Break 15:00 until 15:30. "Polite and Satirical Forms in Women's Manuscript Writing" Panel starts at 15:30, featuring papers by Dr Emma Bartel and Dr Cassandra Gorman. Break 16:30 until 17:00. Keynote by Dr Julia Martins called "'Follow What I Say': The Mysterious Isabella Cortese and Early Modern Alchemy" starts at 17:00 and finishes at 18:00.

Programme for 12/07/2024. Arrival between 9:30 and 10:00. "Domestic and Public Knowledge: Early Modern Recipe Books" Panel starts at 10:00, featuring papers by India Cole, Finn Manders, and Rachel Feldberg. Break 11:30 until 12:00. "Matter and Void in Women's Poetry" Panel starts at 12:00, featuring papers by Esther Bancroft and Charlotte Newcombe. Lunch is 13:00 until 14:00. "Sick and Healthy Bodies" Panel starts at 14:00, featuring papers by Annastasia Conner, Dr Jil Muller and Dr Clare Tonks. Break 15:30 until 16:00. Keynote by Professor Danielle Clarke called "Textual Mobility, Matter and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern Women's Writing" starts at 16:00 and finishes at 17:00.

ALT Programme for 12/07/2024. Arrival between 9:30 and 10:00. "Domestic and Public Knowledge: Early Modern Recipe Books" Panel starts at 10:00, featuring papers by India Cole, Finn Manders, and Rachel Feldberg. Break 11:30 until 12:00. "Matter and Void in Women's Poetry" Panel starts at 12:00, featuring papers by Esther Bancroft and Charlotte Newcombe. Lunch is 13:00 until 14:00. "Sick and Healthy Bodies" Panel starts at 14:00, featuring papers by Annastasia Conner, Dr Jil Muller and Dr Clare Tonks. Break 15:30 until 16:00. Keynote by Professor Danielle Clarke called "Textual Mobility, Matter and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern Women's Writing" starts at 16:00 and finishes at 17:00.

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To celebrate the @TheBSLS nomination, the introduction for Curious Kin is free to download this month: academic.oup.com/book/46794/…

Introduction: From Human to Posthuman Care

Abstract. Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care develops posthuman care as a vital concept attendant to the range of affects, energies, behaviors, atta

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The BSLS@TheBSLS8 Mar 2024
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Amelia DeFalco's Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care (OUP): A study of narrative representations of twenty-first-century posthuman care that offers a unique, posthumanist exploration of contemporary fiction
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@lapworthmuseum Thank you for a MARVELLOUS behind the scenes tour this morning, so much for the geological imagination, & a surprising amount of coal / mining / ironstone / metal ores / coal mining plans - excellent! Thanks @TheBSLS Conference & @ahrcpress @CoalAuthority
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As a former @TheBSLS secretary I can confirm that this is a wonderful executive committee of which to be a part - if you’re even slightly tempted, I say go for it! #LitSci #BSLS2024
The BSLS@TheBSLS5 Apr 2024
We are still seeking nominations for chair, secretary, membership secretary, international member, and member at large! Please get in touch if you want to join the executive committee
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Stand up comedy about Genetics? YES PLEASE. Feat. me (!!!!): contactmcr.com/events/bright… 17 April @ContactMcr @TheBSLS @mcrhistfest @MCRCityofLit @McrLitFest
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CFP: What is the Biomolecular Humanities? Workshop 15 Nov, Manchester, UK, please circulate @thomascauvin @MDemantowsky @Boothicus @TanyaEvans14 @TheBSLS @BSHSNews @sim_manchester @engageWCS @SASNews @UoMCreativeMCR @GenSocUK manchestersdna.co.uk/biomole…
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‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ was an online symposium which took place in Dec 23. On our blog, the organisers introduce the principles of queer ecology & explore the ‘wonderfully queer world of lichens’ in a series of drawing games. #LGBTplusHM english.web.ox.ac.uk/article…
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Haunted Shores online symposium coming up in June! 🌊 @TheBSLS @IGA_Goths @Scottish_Shores @OGOMProject @GothicStudies
Haunted Shores@ShoresHaunted6 Feb 2024
New Haunted Shores cfp! Details for our fourth annual online symposium: 10–14 June 2024. Abstracts due 31 March. Please share widely: abstracts welcomed from absolutely anyone interested in any manner of haunted shoreline!
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What a wonderfully thought-provoking event yesterday’s @TheBSLS Winter Symposium was! Huge congratulations to the organisers, @Lady_Electric, @josh_iswriting & @mostly_voids, & to all the contributors for a truly fantastic day! My brain is still fried today, but in a good way! 🤓
Laura E. Ludtke 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@Lady_Electric2 Dec 2023
I was too busy to take many photos of yesterday’s ‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ symposium, so this lichen (and fungi) doodle will have to do. My co-organisers @mostly_voids and @josh_iswriting are thankful to @TheBSLS , @engfac for funding us and giving us a headquarters.
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Jim Scown@JimScown5 Dec 2023
Excited for this tonight! Great chat w @CamillaAllen, Jago Cooper, & @SAModernism for #WorldSoilDay & a mention for the fab environmental work going on in Cornwall at @HaSSCornwall, @UniofExeterESI, & our new Grad School of Environment & Sustainability @ExeterGSES 🙌
University of Exeter News@UniofExeterNews1 Dec 2023
Dr @JimScown from @HaSSCornwall will take part in a special episode of @BBCRadio3 @BBCFreeThinking to mark #WorldSoilDay on Tuesday. Listen here next week bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001svx…
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Excited to announce that I will be speaking at this wonderful symposium on Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's work and decolonial queer ecologies!
The BSLS@TheBSLS16 Nov 2023
The draft programme for our winter symposium 'Imagining Queer Ecologies' is now available! We've got gay frogs! Queer rivers! Amoeban Dialogues! And so much more. bsls.ac.uk/winter-symposium-…
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EU consulates call for Aberdeen language courses to be saved bbc.in/47SmMAq
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@davynotebooks Exhibition and talk!
Northumberland Archives@NorthldArchives8 Nov 2023
Our latest free exhibition is now up! Pop along to County Hall, Morpeth and have a look at the notebooks of the inventor of the Davy lamp! Also free talk at County Hall: 15 Nov 2023, 11-12:30 Dr Andrew Lacey, Uni of Lancaster "Sir Humphry Davy: His Life, Letters, and Notebooks"
A display case with an open book is in the foreground. Behind it is a board with a portrait of a man and the headline "Controversy at Northumberland."

ALT A display case with an open book is in the foreground. Behind it is a board with a portrait of a man and the headline "Controversy at Northumberland."

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Replying to @AmigoniDavid @ConversationUK
And a great interview between @Ayckbourn and @ArchivingAlanA which takes us @TheBSLS to lit and science territory @NewVicTheatre @thesjt
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