Dear blog,<\/p>\n
Tomorrow the ‘Thomas de Quincey, Manchester, and Medicine’ conference is taking place: http:\/\/www.iscpr.salford.ac.uk\/iscpr\/p\/?s=32&pid=49<\/a>. I’m really pleased with the programme and the participants; there has been quite a range response to the call for papers, from postgrads to Professors, from Cyprus to UCLA, and from the gothic to astronomy and hangovers. I won’t be able to empathise with the ‘Romantic hangover’ since I’m on an early train the next morning to the CCUE meeting in London, where the much-debated topic of ‘Impact’ will be discussed at length. If anyone hasn’t read Stefan Collini’s article on Impact in the Humanities in the TLS<\/em>, you can read it here: http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/the_tls\/article6915986.ece<\/a><\/p>\n The deadline for the first event of the AHRC-training session ‘Theories and Methods: Literature, Science and Medicine’ passed on 1\/12\/09 and we had 33 applications for only 20 places. This is both good and bad: I’m pleased that so many want to be part of the programme but sad that some people won’t get places. It does show, however, that there are doctoral students put there who affiliate their work with the programme, and that we were right to propose the programme to the\u00a0AHRC.\u00a0I hope that those who can’t come to events in person for whatever reason will\u00a0still engage with the debates and topics covered on the social space.<\/p>\n This week I’ve also been organising the schedule for\u00a0our research cluster (Literature, Culture, and\u00a0Science: http:\/\/www.iscpr.salford.ac.uk\/iscpr\/p\/?s=36&pid=47<\/a>) at Salford’s one-day symposium on 15\/1\/10.\u00a0We decided that instead of having a series of seminars we would have a day-long symposium and\u00a0have invited two external speakers: Laurence Coupe (MMU) and Clare Brant (KCL). A number of my colleagues have suggested activities and events, including showing\u00a0polaroids taken with some of the last polaroid\u00a0stock to be bought\u00a0(the company announced some time ago that they would stop producing instant film) and\u00a0a talk on using science in novels for teenagers. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Tonight I’m off to the Christmas drinks event at the Museum of Science and Industry. On the invitation we are promised a ride in the reproduction of George Stephenson’s <\/em>Planet\u00a0locomotive and\u00a0I’m ridiculously overexcited about this prospect!<\/p>\n Best,<\/p>\n Sharon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear blog, Tomorrow the ‘Thomas de Quincey, Manchester, and Medicine’ conference is taking place: http:\/\/www.iscpr.salford.ac.uk\/iscpr\/p\/?s=32&pid=49. I’m really pleased with the programme and the participants; there has been quite a range response to the call for papers, from postgrads to Professors, … Continue reading