About SLS


 
The Society for Literature and Science welcomes colleagues in the sciences, engineering, technology, computer science,  medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, and independent scholars and artists. SLS fosters the multi-disciplinary study of the relations among literature and language, the arts, science, medicine, and technology. The organization was inaugurated at the 17th International Congress of the History of Science, Berkeley, CA, in August 1985. Since then membership has grown rapidly. Each year our convention attracts participants from many disciplines, including history, sociology, anthropology, rhetoric, and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine; literary history and criticism; art history and media studies; the cognitive sciences, and all areas of science, technology, engineering, and medicine.   

SLS Publications

 SLS sponsors a journal, Configurations, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, a newsletter, Decodings, published by the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a book series published by the University of Michigan Press.

Past SLS
Conferences

 2000 (Oct), Media: Old and New (Atlanta, GA)
2000 (Apr), Science, Literature and the Arts  (Brussels, Belgium)
1999, Historicizing Literature, Science, and the Arts (Norman, OK) [link forthcoming]
1998, Thinking the Brain and Beyond (Gainesville, FL)
1997, Pedagogies,Technologies, Inscription Practices (Pittsburgh, PA)

Graduate Student
Travel Support
SLS provides a limited number of travel awards for graduate students attending the annual conference.  Graduate student members of SLS participating in SLS 2001 may apply for travel subsidies.  Applicants should email their name, the title of their presentation, any information about their funding for the conference that documents institutional support, and a statement of how long they have been SLS members to Carol Colatrella by September 1.  SLS officers will review the applications and approve funds for one to three graduate students.  Each student awarded funds will be given a $200 check at the conference.


Annual Essay Prizes
The society awards annual prizes for scholarship: the Bruns Prize for an essay by a graduate student member, and the the Schachterle Prize for an essay by an untenured faculty member. Deadline: September 1.


SLS Membership
Annual membership dues ($40 regular, $24 student) include subscriptions to Decodings and Configurations. For details, go to the SLS page at The Johns Hopkins University Press. All conference participants must become 2001 SLS members.

SLS 2002
Pasadena, CA

The 2002 SLS meeting will be held in Pasadena, CA, October 10-13. A Call for Papers, with details about the meeting, will be issued sometime next year. Send suggestions about themes, panels, plenary speakers, or anything else to Jay Labinger, jal@its.caltech.edu