Films
Please click on the links below to view films developed as part of this AHRC funded two-year doctoral training programme to teach the 'Theories and Methods' of projects that connect literature, science and medicine. These films were produced for The Wellcome Library's LitSciMed competition in February 2010.
Films of the LitSciMed Project's Lectures
Event 3
Michael Hunter: Reflections on Textual Editing
Gillian Hutchinson: Excursions into Surrogate Worlds: Approaches to Interpreting Historic Sea Charts
David Knight: What did people do all day? What can sources tell us about the scientific life in the Romantic age?
Crosbie Smith: Mirror on the Sea: Reflections on the Sea Literature of Joseph Conrad
Event 4
Hasok Chang: ‘Introduction to the Philosophy of Science’
John Holmes: ‘Crossing Two Cultures: Poetry, Science and Criticism’
James Sumner: ‘The Sociology of Scientific Understanding’
Michael Whitworth: ‘Poetry and the Language of Science: Some Lines of Inquiry’
Isobel Armstrong: 'Glass Reflections'
Steven Connor: 'Object Lessons: Thing Theories and Material Culture'
Esther Leslie: 'Liquid Crystals'
Event 6
Mike Brown: 'Victorian Medicine and Masculinity at Home and Abroad'
Gordon Fyfe: 'Visualizing Society: Museums, social science and Keele's sociology archive'
Chris Renwick: 'Back to the Future: Patrick Geddes, biology, and a counterfactual history of British sociology'
