George Levine, Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers University, will be speaking on ‘Science and Religion from Herschel to Gould’ at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 29th April at the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, Oxford, and again at 2 p.m. on Wednesday 30th April at the Harborne Lecture Theatre at the University of Reading. Professor Levine is one of the world’s most eminent scholars of literature and science. His books include Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction (1988), Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England (2002), Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World (2006), Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science (2008) and Darwin the Writer (2011), as well as several edited books on science and literature. Both events are open to the public, so please feel free to come along to either to hear this rich and stimulating talk.
