• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Ada Lovelace in her Mathematical Context
  Professor Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - On the Stratification of Language
  Dr James Emmott (Oxford Brookes University)

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - From the Andes to the Outback: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire
  Dr Helen Cowie (University of York)

Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The Good Places of Sleep: Nineteenth-Century Utopian Fictions and Sleep Research
  Professor Martin Willis (Cardiff University)

Tuesday 21 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Infectious Ideas: Mechanisms of Transmission in the 19th Century
  Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Time Tribes: How the Railways Made Communities (1840-1900)
  Professor Oliver Zimmer (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Normalcy Interrogated: Prosthetic Hand Users in Victorian Sensation-Fiction Narratives
  Dr Ryan Sweet (University of Leeds)

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - ‘Sexo-Aesthetic Inversion’: Transgender Subjectivities in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Science
  Dr Jana Funke (University of Exeter)

Monday 7 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Gone but not Forgotten: Coming to Grips with Extinction
  Professor Harriet Ritvo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Sympathy limits in Daniel Deronda
  Dr Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London )

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - ‘What is health? It is chocolate!’: Chocolate, medicine, and writing in nineteenth-century France
  Dr Manon Mathias (University of Glasgow )

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Science and the Mutual Improvement Society
  Dr Lauren Weiss (University of Strathclyde), Prof Kirstie Blair (University of Strathclyde)

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Psychiatric Injury and the Hysterical Woman
  Dr Imogen Goold (University of Oxford), Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: The Literary Doctor in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
  Dr Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Monstrous Voices: (Female) Speaking Automata, Mind Science and Mass Mediation in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
  Prof Anne-Julia Zwierlein (University of Regensburg)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Dickens’s Loneliness
  Dr Ushashi Dasgupta (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - "A Monkey into a Man": Thomas Henry Huxley, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and the Making of an Evolutionary Icon
  Professor Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Binding and Embodiment: Oliver Lodge, Physics, and the Book
  Dr Jim Mussell (University of Leeds)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Nervous mimicry: performing paralysis in nineteenth-century culture
  Dr Heather Tilley (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Victor Frankenstein, the Chemist
  Professor Sharon Ruston (University of Lancaster)