John Holmes has recently published two short articles from his work on the Pre-Raphaelites and science: In an essay for a special issue of the Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society…Read More >
Scrambling with the order of my brain…
A write-up of the Science and Storytelling event by Dr Lucinda Becker It is not often that anyone gets to sit and listen to a medical doctor, a scientific advisor…Read More >
Nature’s Verse
John Holmes will be launching the paperback of his book Darwin’s Bards with a reading and discussion of poems on evolution from across the last two centuries at the Natural History Museum…Read More >
Two new books
Two new books have just been published by the directors of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the Humanities and Science. Andrew Mangham’s Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction has just been…Read More >
John Holmes lectures on literature and science in Ferrara
John Holmes was invited to speak last week at the University of Ferrara in Italy on Approaches and Methods in the Study of Literature and Science. To read about the…Read More >
Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850
Women’s Scientific Travelling Before 1850: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, UK 27-28 June 2014 Speakers to include: Professor Barbara Gates (University of Delaware) Professor Londa Schiebinger (Stanford…Read More >
Dr Andrew Mangham speaks at the Oxford Literature and Science Seminar Series
The Oxford Literature and Science seminar resumes activity this term with papers from Dr Andrew Mangham (University of Reading), Dr Cathryn Setz (St Anne’s College), and Dr Peter Fifield (St…Read More >
Electricity and women’s work in farmhouse and cottage
Just a quick reminder that this term’s series of seminars on ‘Women and the countryside’ begins at 4.30 today in the MERL Conference Room. Prof. Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University)…Read More >
Science and Storytelling Roundtable
We are launching our new research theme with a public roundtable discussion of Science and Storytelling at the University of Reading’s London Road campus (LO22, Lecture Room G01) on Wednesday 6…Read More >
Wilkie Collins Study Day
The Victorian Popular Fiction Association is pleased to announce a Study Day devoted to the work of Wilkie Collins. 10:00-10:15 Welcome (Janice Allan and Joanne Ella Parsons) 10:15-11:15 Keynote by…Read More >