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 >
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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 >
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 >