Trinity Term 2010 Programme

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

Please note the different days, times, and venues for each week’s session

Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford), ‘Childhood Sexuality and the Victorian Novel.’
Friday 30 April 2010, 3.30pm.
English Faculty, St Cross Building, Room 10.

Professor Bruno Latour (Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris), ‘A Compositionist Manifesto.’
Wednesday 12 May 2010, 5.30pm.
English Faculty, St Cross Building, Lecture Theatre 2.

Graduate Forum: Stella Pratt-Smith (University of Oxford), ‘Mind over Matter: From Sensation to Precision in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Electricity’.
Will Tattersdill (King’s College, London), ‘Two Sides of the Same Page: Science and Fiction in the Late Victorian Periodical.’
Friday 28 May 2010, 2pm.
English Faculty, St Cross Building, Room 10.

Convenors: Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and Dr Michael Whitworth

Hilary Term Literature and Science seminar series

UPDATE

WEEK 6 (Friday 26 Feb.)

Dr Carina Bartleet (Oxford Brookes), "Growing Tales:  Generational Intertextualities and Mimesis in Modern Drama"

Arumugam Building top floor, St Catherine's College

2 pm

WEEK 8 (Friday 12 March)

NEW:  Literature and Science Graduate Forum

JCR Theatre, St Catherine's College

2 pm

Dr Gregory Tate, "Tennyson's In Memoriam and the Unquiet Brain" 

and

Rachel Crossland, "Individuals Suspended in a Mass:  Brownian Motion as a Model for Literary Crowds in the Works of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf"

The Graduate Forum is a new termly feature of our seminar series, designed to give current and/or very recent Oxford graduate students an opportunity to present informal work-in-progress papers (20-30 minutes each) followed by discussion.  If you would like to participate please get in touch with Dr Shepherd-Barr now, either for this term or for subsequent terms:  kirsten.shepherd-barr@ell.ox.ac.uk

Notice of Cancellation

***DR CARINA BARTLEET'S TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS***

Literature and Science seminar series, Hilary 2010

The seminars for Hilary 2010 are as follows:

Week 4:  CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

Week 6
Friday, 26 February at 2 pm
Professor Peter Middleton (Dept of English, University of Southampton)
"The Poetics of Inquiry:  American Poetry and Science in the Cold War"

All seminars will take place in St Catherine's College, the Arumugam Building (go to the top floor above the Lodge)

Michaelmas Term 2009 Programme

Michaelmas Term 2009 Programme

Hawkins Room, Fellows' Quad, staircase 3

Merton College

Friday 30 October (3rd week), 2pm

Professor David Amigoni (Keele): ‘Charles Darwin’s centenary and the politics and poetics of parenting: inheritance, variation, and the aesthetic legacy of Samuel Butler’

Friday 27 November (7th week), 2pm

Dr John Holmes (Reading): ‘Darwinism in Victorian Poetry’

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ALSO OF INTEREST: The Drama in Performance seminar, Wednesday 11 November (5th week), 5.15pm, Shackleton Room, Brasenose College: Craig Baxter (playwright), 'Verbatim, Gravity, Evolution, and God: Dramatizing Newton and Darwin in their own words'

Trinity Term 2009 Programme

Trinity Term 2009 Programme

Breakfast Room, Merton College 

Friday 15 May 2009 (3rd week), 2pm.

Dr Andrew Barry (School of Geography / St Catherine's):

'Art-Science: from public understanding to public experiment'.

 

Friday 12 June 2009 (7th week), 2pm.

Jean-François Peyret (founder and director of the Tf2 theatre company, Paris) will be speaking about Les Variations Darwin.

Peyret's work has included productions such as Les Variations Darwin, Galileo, and Le Cas de Sophie K, all of which involved collaborations with scientists.

 

 

Hilary Term 2009 programme

Programme for Hilary Term 2009

Seminars in the Hawkins Room, Merton College

(Fellows Quad 3)

 

Friday 6 February 2009 (3rd week) at 2 p.m.

Dr Vike Martina Plock (Cardiff)

‘“Alcoh alcoho alcoherently”: Alcoholism and Doubling in Joyce's “Counterparts”’

 

Friday 6 March 2009 (7th week) at 2 p.m.

Dr. Iwan Morus (Aberystwyth)

 ‘The Matter of Victorian Electricity’