Romanticism and Science: A British Academy Symposium In Association with the British Association for Romantic Studies Convened by Dr Sharon Ruston, University of Wales, Bangor Friday, 15 September 2006 The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Programme FURTHER INFORMATION 9.30 | Registration and tea/coffee | 10.00 | Scientific discovery and the poets
Professor Richard Holmes FBA, University of East Anglia
| 11.00 | Carcase Coleridge or Coleridge and the rhetoric of the eighteenth-century medical case
Dr Neil Vickers, King's College, London | 12.00 | Lunch | 1.00 | Natural Rights and Natural History
Dr Sharon Ruston, University of Wales, Bangor | 2.00 | Tea and coffee | 2.30 | The Limits of the Human: Frankenstein, Anatomy and Racial Science
Professor Peter Kitson, University of Dundee | 3.30 | The Anatomy of Racism: What Natural History Saw in Native People's Skulls
Professor Timothy Fulford, Nottingham Trent University | 4.30 | Symposium ends | < back to conference homepage |
