Science and Literature Reading Group

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Isis Focus Section - History of Science and Literature and Science: Convergences and Divergences

The latest issue of Isis, just out, has an interesting-looking Focus section. It's free to access, at the following links:
  • James J. Bono, Making Knowledge: History, Literature, and the Poetics of Science
  • Colin Milburn, Modifiable Futures: Science Fiction at the Bench
  • Laura Otis, Science Surveys and Histories of Literature: Reflections on an Uneasy Kinship
  • Henry S. Turner, Lessons from Literature for the Historian of Science (and Vice Versa): Reflections on “Form”
  • Laura Dassow Walls, Of Atoms, Oaks, and Cannibals; or, More Things That Talk
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Who are we?

The Science and Literature Reading Group is run in association with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

Each term we select a set of texts on a given theme - past topics have included literary technologies, relativity theory, contemporary poetry, short stories about doctors, and science and drama. At our seminars a brief introduction is followed by informal discussion of the text in hand.

The group welcomes anybody who is interested in exploring the relations between literature and science, technology or medicine to join in our fortnightly meetings.

For further information or to join our mailing list email daniel_friesner [at] yahoo. co . uk

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