The full programme for the 2016 BSLS conference at the University of Birmingham is now available BSLS 2016 – Provisional Programme 2nd edition (DOCX). Read the BSLS 2016 Provisional Programme 2nd edition in PDF (snapshot taken while the program was still under development in March 2016).

Following is a description for one of the poetry-related sessions.

8C. Poetry: Ornament or Experiment?

• Rosalind Powell (Bristol): “Alternative Spaces: creating natural philosophy through verse”
• Marcin Leszczyński (Warsaw): “Scientific analogy in Polish and English romantic poetry”
• Gregory Tate (St. Andrews): “Experimental Evidence: The Uses of Poetry in Victorian Science Communication”