Author: John Holmes

  • Thomas Hardy Arts and Creative Technology PhD studentship

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    Fully-funded three-year AHRC Research and Enterprise in Arts and Creative Technology (REACT) Collaborative PhD Studentship: Thomas Hardy and Heritage Based at Dorset County Museum and the University of Exeter (Centres for Literature and Archives and for Victorian Studies, College of Humanities), this studentship will be focused on Thomas Hardy and his correspondents. The letters to…

  • International Summer School on Science and Literature

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    INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE DIVISION of HISTORY of SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL UNION for the HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY of SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON SCIENCE AND LITERATURE Following the successful 1st International Conference on Science and Literature, that took place in Athens last year, the International Commission on Science and Literature…

  • Ustinov Annual Conference

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    What makes interdisciplinarity work? Crossing academic boundaries in real life. Ustinov College, Durham University, United Kingdom Friday and Saturday 10–11 July 2015 Durham University’s Ustinov College now welcomes presentation proposals to its inaugural Annual Conference. The conference seeks to bring together research students and established practitioners to share knowledge and insights on interdisciplinary projects, as…

  • Effects of the Scientific Imaginary workshop

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    The workshop ‘Effects of the Scientific Imaginary’ will take place at the SPH Centre in Bordeaux-Montaigne University on June 11th & 12th 2015. The workshop aims at discussing the examining the effects of scientific thought-experiments and fantasies from a variety of disciplinary angles. For example: do stories of brain transplantation and swamp-people import conceptual assumptions…

  • Oxford Science, Medicine and Culture seminars

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    The programme for next term’s seminars on Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century at Oxford University has been announced. The speakers are Lee Macdonald, Matthew Paskins and Rachel Bowlby. Click on the link below to see who is speaking when: http://diseasesofmodernlife.org/category/events/

  • Biological Discourses conference

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    Registration now open: Biological Discourses The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 The decades around 1900 are a crucial period for the impact of biological thought on the intellectual cultures of the western world. The impulses of Darwinism were taken up by intellectuals, writers and artists from the 1860s onwards, and both Darwinian and…

  • Poetics of Knowledge conference

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    The call for papers for the conference at the University of Bern (5-7 November 2015) has been extended to 13 April. To read the cfp and submit a paper, click below: CFP_Poetics of Knowledge

  • The Darwins Colloquium

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    The University of Roehampton is holding colloquium on Erasmus and Charles Darwin on Friday 4th September 2015. To read the cfp, click below: TheDarwinsReconsidered

  • Dawson, Gowan and Bernard Lightman (eds), Victorian Science and Literature (8 vols)

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    Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman (eds), Victorian Science and Literature, 8 vols (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011-12). 3408 pp. £700 hb (£350 per 4 volume set). ISBN 978-1848930919 and 978-1848930926. In their general introduction to their huge and handsome new anthology of Victorian writings about science, Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman spell out very clearly…

  • Boyd, Brian, Why Lyrics Last

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    Brian Boyd, Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), x+227 pp. £19.95 hb. ISBN 978-0-674-06564-2. In reviewing three evolutionary studies of epic poetry for the BSLS, I was persuaded by Brian Boyd’s On the Origin of Stories that, in the right hands, an evolutionary perspective on literature could…

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