Earlier this month I went to the conference of the new Commission on Science and Literature at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. The Commission – or CoSciLit –…Read More >
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Diachronic change in Bantu noun classes
We are holding our last work-in-progress session of term next week at 1 o’clock on Wednesday 2nd July in HumSS 175. Annemarie Verkerk from the School of Biological Sciences will be…Read More >
Science in Modernist Poetry
The IRHS has been invited to give a panel at the British Association of Modernist Studies conference this week at Senate House in London. We will be giving three talks on…Read More >
Medieval Meteorology symposium
The Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies at Reading is holding its Summer Symposium this year on Medieval Meteorology, Science and Divination. The Symposium is on Wed 2nd July, 10.30-4.00, in Palmer…Read More >
Evolution and Victorian poetry
John Holmes’s essay ‘The challenge of evolution in Victorian poetry’ has just been published in Evolution and Victorian Culture, edited by Bernard Lightman and Bennett Zon. This is the first book…Read More >
Science in modernist poetry
Our next work-in-progress meeting will be on science in modernist poetry. The IRHS was invited to submit a panel to the conference of the British Association of Modernist Studies, so…Read More >
Two upcoming talks
Here are the details of two upcoming talks by members of the IRHS on aspects of their interdisciplinary work: John Holmes will be speaking on ‘“A Just Debt of Gratitude”:…Read More >
IRHS interdisciplinary teaching on Humboldt
Alison Martin (German) writes: At the start of the year, I met up with Hilary Geoghegan from Geography who told me she was running a session on earth-writing for her 1st…Read More >
Modern art, Victorian sculpture and natural history
On Thursday evening John Holmes will be discussing the decorative art of the nineteenth-century Irish stone-carvers James and John O’Shea at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History with the contemporary…Read More >
George Levine’s talk
A quick reminder that George Levine, Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers University, will be speaking tomorrow (Wednesday 30th April) at 2 p.m. in the Harborne Lecture Theatre on ‘Science and…Read More >