Ruskin, Science and the Environment
December 11, 2018 in News, Related Events by jholmes | Permalink
In honour of John Ruskin’s bicentenary, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History will be hosting a one-day conference on Ruskin, Science and the Environment on Friday 8th February 2019 from 9.30 until 6. Speakers will include Kate Flint (Southern California), Mark Frost (Portsmouth), Peter Garratt (Durham), Sandra Kemp (Director of the Ruskin Research Centre, Lancaster), Francis O’Gorman (Edinburgh), John Parham (Worcester) and Marcus Waithe (Cambridge). There will also be a brief introduction to Ruskin Land from John Iles and a tour of the museum by John Holmes (Birmingham). At 6 in the evening, the conference will be followed by a public lecture by Fiona Stafford (Oxford) on ‘Ruskin’s Trees’.
Registration for the conference on Ruskin, Science and the Environment costs £20 (full-price) or £10 for students and other unwaged delegates. To register, please click here.
Fiona Stafford's public lecture on 'Ruskin's Trees' is free of charge. To register, please click here.
If you would like to attend both events, please register for each of them separately.
For further information, please email Catherine Charlwood at catherine.charlwood@ell.ox.ac.uk.
Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford) and John Holmes (Birmingham)
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- AHRC Science in Culture Theme
- Bergen Literature and Science Research Group
- British Society for the History of Science
- Cardiff ScienceHumanities
- Commission on Science and Literature
- Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science (ELINAS)
- Fiction Meets Science (FMS)
- History of Science Society
- International Union of History and Philosophy of Science
- Journal of Literature and Science
- Literature and Science at the University of Oxford
- Literature and Science Hub, University of Liverpool
- London Interdisciplinary Discussion Group
- Natural History Museum Centre for Arts and Humanities Research
- Royal Society Centre for History of Science
- SLSA, Europe
- Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
- University of Reading Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the Humanities and Science (IRHS)