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 >
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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 >
Science and the Humanities for Early Career Scholars
We will be holding a one-day interdisciplinary workshop on Friday 14th March, funded by the British Academy, to bring together scholars working in the history of science with those working on literature…Read More >
Children’s Literature, Literature and Neuroscience
Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein will be speaking at the Oxford Children’s Literature Colloquium (CLOC) on Friday February 7th at 4 pm at St Cross College in Oxford on ‘Children’s Literature, Literature and…Read More >
Depsychologizing/deneurologizing modern subjectivity?
Karin Lesnik-Oberstein will be speaking at a one-day symposium at the University of Ghent on 8th January: What does it means to become the (neuro)psychologist of one’s own life? If…Read More >
Aphra Behn as a scientific translator
‘No Tincture of Learning?’: Aphra Behn as (Re)Writer and Translator Alison Martin (University of Reading; Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) recently gave a lecture at UCL on the seventeenth-century writer Aphra Behn (1640-89) as a…Read More >
Rossetti, Ruskin and Science
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 >