Author: John Holmes

To read the first issue of the Journal of Science & Popular Culture, click here.

This term’s speakers at the Oxford Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century seminars are Dr Helen Cowie (York), Prof Martin Willis (Cardiff) and Prof Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Oxford). Here is the programme for the term: Science, Medicine and Culture seminars

SOUND TALKING an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘language describing sound / sound emulating language’ Friday 3 November 2017, Dana Research Centre, London Science Museum Info and registration: Sound Talking is a one-day event at the London Science Museum that seeks to explore the complex relationships between language and sound, both historically and in the present day.…

Thanks to Wellcome Trust funding, Martina Zimmermann’s new monograph The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer’s Disease Life-Writing is fully available through open access. To download the book for free from the publisher’s website, click here.

The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science has just been published. Edited by John Holmes and Sharon Ruston, with an afterword by Bernard Lightman, it includes 27 chapters by leading experts covering ten literary genres, over a dozen scientific disciplines, and four key contexts for research into literature and science across the nineteenth century. To read…

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new series of books entitled Explorations in Science and Literature, to be published by Bloomsbury. Here is the call for proposals: Explorations in Science and Literature We look forward very much to hearing your ideas for exciting new books in our field that speak to audiences across literary scholarship and the…

Here is the schedule for this term’s seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at St Anne’s College, Oxford: Wednesday 10 May 2017, 5.30 – 7.00 Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College. Professor Ursula Martin, University of Oxford – Ada Lovelace in her Mathematical Context Wednesday 25 May 2017, 5.30 – 7.00…