Michaelmas Term 2011 programme

University of Oxford
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Literature and Science Seminar

Fridays, 2pm, weeks 3, 5, 7, Seminar Room B (formerly room 10), English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road

Week 3, 2pm (Friday 28 October)
Dr Michael Whitworth (Merton College/English Faculty, Oxford): ‘"Strange Synthetic Perfumes": Investigating Scientific Diction in Twentieth-Century Poetry'.

Week 5, 2pm (Friday 11 November)
Professor Rebecca Stott (UEA): 'The Surrealism of Everyday Life: Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Darwin'.

Week 7, 2pm (Friday 25 November)
Dr Emily T. Troscianko (St John's College, Oxford):'Science and the study of literature'


Convenors: Dr Michael Whitworth (Merton)
Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (St Catz)

Trinity Term 2011 Programme

University of Oxford
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Literature and Science Seminar

Fridays, w

eeks 2 and 3, 2pm, Room 11, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road.

Week 2, 2pm. (Friday 13 May)

Professor Peter Middleton (Southampton).

"Poetry, Physics, and the Scientific Attitude at Mid-Century"

Week 3, 2pm (Friday 20 May)

Professor Steve Abbott (Middlebury)

"The Dramatic Life of Alan Turing".

Future Plans

The seminar is taking a break in Hilary Term 2011, but will return in Trinity Term. In the meantime, we are pleased to see that Bruno Latour's 'Compositionist Manifesto' has now appeared in print, in New Literary History: http://newliteraryhistory.org/articles/41-3-Latour.pdf