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Posted on 21 May 2012

The Research Institute for Humanities hosted the interdisciplinary conference Two Cultures or Co-Evolution? Science and Literature 1800-Present last Saturday. The conference organisers, Katie McGettigan, Emilie Taylor-Brown and Jo Taylor (all postgraduate students from the RI Humanities), were supported by funding from Keele's EPSRC Bridging the Gaps initiative.

The conference attracted delegates from across the country to interrogate the relationship between the two cultures, concluding with a lively roundtable session that discussed the state of that relationship in higher education today.

There were keynotes from Professor David Amigoni (Keele) and Professor Sharon Ruston (University of Salford). Professor Joanna Verran, a world-renowned microbiologist, from Manchester Metropolitan University, gave the afternoon keynote, sharing her personal experiences in engaging with colleagues, students and ideas across the subject divide.

A follow-up event will be hosted on Friday 25 May 2012 when Jonathan Lamb, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, will give a talk entitled Scurvy and Nostalgia. The event will take place in the Claus Moser Research Centre (CM0.12) at 1pm.

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