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BIOCRITICISM webinar 2024 – the programme is online!

I’m delighted to announce the BioCriticism webinar programme for 2024. We meet on zoom at 2pm CET. Please contact me or check this page for the zoom links closer to the date. Abstracts are available here.

BioCriticism 2024 – “Through the microscope”

  • 2d of February 2024: “Microbiology in the Twentieth-Century Novel”

Speaker: Dr. Patrick Armstrong (Cambridge University)

Respondent: Dr. Sarah Bouttier (Ecole Polytechnique)

  • 8th of March 2024:  “Tiny New World : French Visual Culture and the Microbial Imaginary since the Early Twentieth Century”

Speaker: Dr. Fleur Hopkins-Loféron (CNRS and THALIM laboratory, Sorbonne Nouvelle University)

Respondent: Prof. Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)

  • 26th of April 2024: “The Biomolecularisation of the Archive”

Speaker: Prof. Jerome de Groot (University of Manchester)

Respondent: Prof. François-Joseph Lapointe (Université de Montréal)

  • 24th of May 2024: “Books of Life in the Age of the Genome”

Speaker: Dr. Paul Hamann-Rose (University of Passau)

Respondent: Dr. Rūta Šlapkauskaitė (Vilnius University)