The Oxford Literature and Science seminar resumes activity this term with papers from Dr Andrew Mangham (University of Reading), Dr Cathryn Setz (St Anne’s College), and Dr Peter Fifield (St John’s College). The seminar will be in Seminar Room A
, the English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road. Details for this term are:
Friday 1 November, 2pm
Dr Andrew Mangham (University of Reading), ‘”The Bar of Science”: Charles Dickens, G. H. Lewes and the Spontaneous Combustion of Mr Krook.’
Friday 15 November, 2pm
Dr Cathryn Setz (St Anne’s College), ‘Stone Age Science: Contra-Darwinian Discourse in Modernist Magazines.’
Friday 22 November, 2pm
Dr Peter Fifield (St John’s College), ‘Imagining Pain: Language and bodily suffering.’
Further seminars are planned for 7 February and 7 March 2014: details will appear here, and on our own webpages.
For further details, please contact Dr Michael Whitworth (Merton College).