George Levine, Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers University, will be coming to speak at Reading next Wednesday (30th April) at 2 p.m. in the Harborne Lecture Theatre on ‘Science…Read More >
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‘The Odd Ones’: Early Career Workshop in Science and the Humanities
Last week, I attended a one-day workshop at the University of Reading for early career scholars in Science and the Humanities. Funded by the British Academy, the workshop aimed to…Read More >
Science and the Humanities Workshop
Last Friday Reading played host to a British Academy funded workshop entitled Science and the Humanities for Early Career Scholars. Here the workshop organiser, Prof. David Stack explains the purpose…Read More >
PhD studentship on literature and zoology
A reminder that the University of Reading is offering a PhD studentship based at the IRHS to study the relationship between zoology and literature in relation to the Cole Library of Early…Read More >
Literature and science at the Cambridge Science Festival
Science as the spark: literature inspired by science Anglia Ruskin University, Thursday 20 March, 7:00pm – 8:30pm How has scientific inquiry lead to literary works? Why is the literary presentation of…Read More >
Science and the Humanities workshop
We held our for early career scholars working on science and the humanities yesterday. Thanks to all the participants for a stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable day of animated discussions, to…Read More >
Science and Humanities for Early Career scholars
There are still spaces free for historians of science on the one-day interdisciplinary workshop on Friday 14th March, funded by the British Academy, to bring together scholars working in the history…Read More >
Literature and Geological Knowledge
Dr Alison Martin of the University of Reading German department and the IRHS will be giving a paper entitled ‘The Shores of a Turbulent Planet’: Literature and the Shaping of…Read More >
Work in progress: Karin Lesnik-Oberstein on neuroscience
We are launching our new series of work in progress sessions on Friday 7th March with a presentation by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of English…Read More >
PhD studentship on literature and zoology
The University of Reading is offering a PhD studentship to study the relationship between zoology and literature in relation to the Cole Library of Early Medicine and Zoology. The studentship covers…Read More >