Theories and Methods: Literature Science and Medicine

Event 3 Programme

Thursday 1st July 2010, Royal Institution of Great Britain
 

12-1pm

Plenary Lecture, 'What did people do all day? What can sources tell us about the scientific life in the Romantic age?'

Professor David Knight

1-2pm

Lunch and Welcome

2-3pm

Group work: Manuscript Exercise

Tour of Museum

3-3.30pm

Tea/Coffee

3.30-5pm

Tour of Museum

Group work: Manuscript Exercise

5-6pm

Seminar

Professor Michael Hunter

6-7pm

Reception

 

 


Day Two – National Maritime Museum

10-10.15am

Welcome and Introduction

Rebekah Higgitt (NMM)

10.15-11.15am

Plenary Lecture and Discussion

Crosbie Smith (University of Kent), “Mirror of the Sea: Reflections on the Sea Literature of Joseph Conrad”

11.15-11.30am

Tea/Coffee

11.30-12.30pm

Case Study Seminar

John McAleer (NMM), “Representing exploration: William Hodges and the art of scientific travel”

12.30-1.30pm

Lunch

1.30-2.30pm

Case Study Seminar

Gillian Hutchinson (NMM), “Excursions into surrogate worlds:
approaches to interpreting historic seacharts”

2.30-2.45pm

Tea/Coffee

2.45-4.30

Practical Session (all)

Objects, Interpretations and Narratives

 

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