Would anyone like to review Anastasia Klimchynskaya's book, Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age (liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....)? Email bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Would anyone like to review Joseph Fletcher's book, William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 (anthempress.com/books/willia...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
We have a new review on our website. Encarnación Trinidad Barrantes reviews Hugh Epstein's book, Hardy, Conrad and the Senses (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/epst...).
IAS Book Launch: Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel: Tue 3rd March, 6pm (in person).
The IAS welcomes Niall Sreenan for the launch of his book Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel. Zola, Hardy, and Utopian Fiction.
More: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/ias-...
Call for Book Proposals: Secrecy in Literature and Culture (Edinburgh University Press)
Series Editors Simon Cooke and Natalie Ferris invite proposals for critical studies exploring the pivotal role of secrecy in literature and culture.
More info: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/call...
Is anyone keen to review Arnold Thackray's book Making Science History: A Personal Perspective from Alamogordo to AI (www.pennpress.org/978160618036...). Contact us at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Would anyone like to review Jane Colden’s
Botanic Manuscript: The Legacy of America’s First Woman Botanist by Fenella Greig Heckscher (www.pennpress.org/978160618047...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Faye Lynch reviews Suman Gupta and Peter H. Tu, The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants: An Engineering-Humanities Conversation (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/gupt...)
Ellie Hibbert reviews Jessica Cox's book Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/cox-...)
We have another review on the BSLS website: Jessica Cox reviews Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/cox-...)
Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant. Go to sas.ac.uk/news-events/ for details on how to apply
Call for Contributions to edited collection - The Prosthetic Ocean: Technology, Culture, and Maritime Imagination.
More details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/02/call...
Who would like to review Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McGray's, book Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s (www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...). Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
Would anyone like to review a poetry collection for the BSLS website: They gather around me, the animals, by Kunjana Parashar (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/they-gathe...). Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
We have a new review on our website. Raul Martin IV has reviewed Eleanor Keisman's book, New Animal (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/keis...).
CfP Deadline approaching! Friday 30th January for Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850. For the full CfP see: www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...
We have a new review on the BSLS website. Manan Rathod reviews Paul De Kruif's The Drama of Discovery: How Microbe Hunters Shaped Popular Understandings of Microbiology (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/de-k...)
Would anyone like to review The Tenant in the Mind: Consciousness and Its Imperatives by Mark Christhilf (markchristhilf.com/works-on-the...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
We have a new review on the site, Ananya Roy has reviewed Kate Foster and Molly Crozier (eds), The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation – The British Society for Literature and Science (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/fost...)
Tita Chico has reviewed Lucinda Cole's, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities and you can read the review on our website here: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/cole...
We have a new review on our website: Alanna Skuse's, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature, reviewed by Chloe Wilcox (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/skus...)
Winter Newsletter Call for Submissions! See: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/01/wint...
![Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World Online Lecture Series 2026
Cultures of Philosophy, University fo Exeter
Thursday 29 January 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy
Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin (McGill University | Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
Origin Stories of Gender Inequality in early modern Feminist Philosophy
Thursday 12 February 4 pm UK | 5 pm Sweden
Cecelia Rosenberg (University of Gothenburg)
Women as Agents of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Gothenburg
Thursday 19 March 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy
Natacha Fabbri (University of Siena | Galileo Museum)
Claiming the Heavens: Women, Astronomy, and Intellectual Authority in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Thursday 16 April 9 am UK | 6 pm Sydney
Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney)
Diotima’s Daughters: Women Philosophers on Love, Beauty, Goodness and Truth in the Early Romantic Period
Thursday 30 April 4 pm UK & Ireland
Derval Conroy (University College Dublin)
Constructing a Philosophy of Celibacy: Gabrielle Suchon’s Le Célibat Volontaire ou la Vie Sans Engagement (1700)
Thursday 14 May 4.30 pm UK |11.30 am ET
Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) Two Early Modern Women Thinkers of China: Empress Renxiaowen and Madame Liu
Thursday 18 June 9 am UK | 5 pm South Korea
Hwayeong Wang (Duke Kunshan University)
Women Writing Confucian Philosophy in Late Joseon Korea: Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang
This work is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzq5zunxfwpjy4kjzb7n7bpp/bafkreidhl76ljoatdvmegmmy3k4pc2bqa4soyzxgf75wg2hynnhzijqige)
Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World Online Lecture Series 2026 Cultures of Philosophy, University fo Exeter Thursday 29 January 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin (McGill University | Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Origin Stories of Gender Inequality in early modern Feminist Philosophy Thursday 12 February 4 pm UK | 5 pm Sweden Cecelia Rosenberg (University of Gothenburg) Women as Agents of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Gothenburg Thursday 19 March 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy Natacha Fabbri (University of Siena | Galileo Museum) Claiming the Heavens: Women, Astronomy, and Intellectual Authority in Seventeenth-Century Europe Thursday 16 April 9 am UK | 6 pm Sydney Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney) Diotima’s Daughters: Women Philosophers on Love, Beauty, Goodness and Truth in the Early Romantic Period Thursday 30 April 4 pm UK & Ireland Derval Conroy (University College Dublin) Constructing a Philosophy of Celibacy: Gabrielle Suchon’s Le Célibat Volontaire ou la Vie Sans Engagement (1700) Thursday 14 May 4.30 pm UK |11.30 am ET Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) Two Early Modern Women Thinkers of China: Empress Renxiaowen and Madame Liu Thursday 18 June 9 am UK | 5 pm South Korea Hwayeong Wang (Duke Kunshan University) Women Writing Confucian Philosophy in Late Joseon Korea: Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang This work is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].
Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World Online Lecture Series
We have published a new book review on our website: Mahroof Mohammad reviews Jasper Joseph-Lester, , Ahuvia Kahane, Simon King, and Esther Leslie (eds), Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/12/jose...).
We have a new book review on our website, Ashitha B. Arun reviews Jeremy Howick's The Power of Placebos (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/12/howi...).
Would anyone like to review Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature by Alanna Skuse (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)? Get in touch at bslsreviews@gmail.com if so.
CfP Deadline Approaching! The deadline to submit an abstract for this year's BSLS conference is this Friday (12th Dec) more details here: www.bsls.ac.uk/conference20...
Nominations for this year's BSLS Book Prize are now open. Publishers and BSLS Members can nominate any book published in the 2025 calendar year. Nominations are open until 31st December. For more info see our book prize page: www.bsls.ac.uk/prizes/bsls-...
We'd like to review Anton Kirchhofer und Karsten Levihn-Kutzler's Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives (heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...). Can you help? Contact bslsreviews@gmail.com.
Would you like to review Sophie Chiari's Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources (www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...)? Please contact bslsreivews@gmail.com.
