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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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

Alison Martin’s article “Outward Bound: Women Translators and Scientific Travel Writing, 1780–1800” has been published on-line with the Annals of Science. To read it,  click here.

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 >

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 >

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 >