Event 1 Resources
Additional resources regarding this course and other LitSciMed events can be found on the project's Social Space, Flickr (photos) and Slideshare (slide and audio presentations).
Below is an example of the kind of reflective work participants were asked to produce Link to Grace Farrington's Reflections (click on the link to expand window. Download also available)
Diary reflections by Grace Farrington
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For more reflective entries please link to participants' blogs.
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Theories and Methods: Literature, Science, and Medicine
4 - 8 January 2010 : St Deiniol’s Library
During this course students were introduced to the issues involved in interdisciplinary study through a mixture of lectures, workshops and independent study.The final day was spent visiting the Museum of Science and Industry and the John Rylands special collections in Manchester.
Below is the programme of studies prepared for this course. Resources generated for some of the sessions can be accessed through the links included in the programme.
Monday 4th Jan
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10.00-12.00 |
Arrive and register |
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12.00-12.30 |
Welcome and Introduction |
SR |
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12.30-13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30-15.00 |
Plenary Lecture 1 |
'Empiricism and the Novel' (CS) [Slidecast and podcast] |
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15.00-15.30 |
Tea |
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15.30-17.00 |
Session 1 |
Gladstone Library Collection (ML) |
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18.00-19.00 |
Dinner |
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20.00 |
Postgrad Presentation 1 |
Some presentations available here. Also check participants' blogs. |
Tuesday 5th Jan
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8.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
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9.00-10.30 |
Session 2 |
Mono-, Inter-, Multi- disciplinarity (SR) [ Slides ] |
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10.30-11.00 |
Tea/coffee |
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11.00-12.30 |
Session 3 |
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12.30-13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30-15.00 |
Session 4 |
Medical Discoveries and Online Resources (SS) |
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15.00-15.30 |
Tea/coffee |
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15.30-17.00 |
Plenary Lecture 2 |
‘Researching Early Twentieth-Century Literature and the Physical Sciences’ (KP) |
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18.00-19.00 |
Dinner |
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20.00 |
Postgrad Presentation 2 |
Some presentations available here. Also check participants' blogs. |
Wednesday 6th Jan
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8.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
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9.00-10.30 |
Session 5 |
Questions of evidence (SR) |
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10.30-11.00 |
Tea/coffee |
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11.00-12.30 |
Session 6 |
Literature and Science (MW) |
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12.30-13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30-18.00 |
Free time – to write up reflective diaries etc. |
Check participants' blogs to read their reflections |
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18.00-19.00 |
Dinner |
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20.00 |
Postgrad Presentation 3 |
Some presentations available here. Also check participants' blogs. |
Thursday 7th Jan
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8.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
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9.00-10.30 |
Session 7 |
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10.30-11.00 |
Tea/coffee |
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11.00-12.30 |
Plenary Lecture 3 |
'Nineteenth-Century Scientists as Readers of Literature: The Case of Richard Owen' |
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12.30-13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30-15.00 |
Session 8 |
Evolution without Darwin (GD) |
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15.00-15.30 |
Tea/coffee |
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15.30-17.00 |
Session 9 |
Literary Darwinism (DA) |
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18.00-19.00 |
Dinner |
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20.00 |
Postgrad Presentation 4 |
Some presentations available here. Also check participants' blogs. |
Friday 8th Jan
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7.30 |
Early Breakfast |
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8.00 |
Mini-bus depart |
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9.30-10 |
MOSI – Introduction |
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10.00-11.00 |
Session 10 |
Handling Objects (PW) |
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11.00-11.15 |
Tea |
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11.15-12.15 |
Session 11 |
Finding Objects |
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12.15-13.00 |
Session11 - feedback |
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13.00-13.45 |
Lunch |
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14.00-14.30 |
JRUL – Welcome and Tour |
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14.30-16.00 |
Session 12 |
The Medical and Scientific Collections at JRUL (JP and JH) |
Further resources regarding this course and other LitSciMed events can be found on the project's Social Space, Flickr (photos) and Slideshare (slide and audio presentations).
