Event 1
Below is the programme of studies prepared for this course. Resources generated for some of the sessions can be accessed through the links included in the programme.
Day 1
Session 1 | Charlotte Sleigh (Kent): ‘Empiricism and the Novel’ (slides) |
Session 2 | Mark Llewellyn (St Deiniol’s Library): ‘The Gladstone Library Collection’ |
Session 3 | Student presentations (some slides) |
Day 2
Session 1 | Sharon Ruston (Salford): ‘Mono-, Inter-, Multi- Disciplinarity’ (slides) |
Session 2 | Stephanie Snow (Manchester): ‘History of Medicine, 1500-2000’ (slides) |
Session 3 | Stephanie Snow (Manchester): ‘Medical Discoveries and Online Resources’ |
Session 4 | Katy Price (Anglia Ruskin): ‘Researching Early Twentieth-Century Literature and the Physical Sciences’ |
Session 5 | Student presentations (some slides) |
Day 3
Session 1 | Sharon Ruston (Salford): ‘Questions of Evidence’ |
Session 2 | Martin Willis (Glamorgan): ‘Literature and Science’ |
Free time (to write up reflective diaries etc.) | |
Session 3 | Student presentations (some slides) |
Day 4
Session 1 | ‘Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and Social Pathology’ |
Session 2 | Gowan Dawson (Leicester): ‘Nineteenth-Century Scientists as Readers of Literature: The Case of Richard Owen’ |
Session 3 | Gowan Dawson (Leicester): ‘Evolution Without Darwin’ |
Session 4 | David Amigoni (Keele): ‘Literary Darwinism’ |
Session 5 | Student presentations (some slides) |
Day 5
MOSI | Introduction |
Session 1 | Pauline Webb (MOSI): ‘Handling Objects’ |
Session 2 | Finding Objects |
Session 3 | Feedback |
JRUL | Welcome and Tour |
Session 4 | James Peters and John Hodgson (JRUL): ‘The Medical and Scientific Objects at JRUL’ |