LITERATURE AND CHEMISTRY: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES

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LITERATURE AND CHEMISTRY: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES

Thursday 27 October 2011

 "Egget"

9:00 - 9:15 Words of welcome

9:15 - 10:00 Robert S. C. Gordon, University of Cambridge: 

  Primo Levi's Chemical Sensorium

10:15 - 11:00 Leiv K. Sydnes, University of Bergen: 

  Oxygen: An Element with a Deceptive Past

11:30 - 12:15 Marek Krawczyk, Medical University of Warsaw:

  Maria Sklodowska-Curie and the Importance of her Discoveries for Medicine

13:00 – 17:15   The conference continues at Rica Hotel (Christies gate 5-7)

14:00 – 16:00 Parallel sessions  

Panel 1: Chemistry in 20th Century Literature

Panel 2: Chemistry in Science Fiction and Popular Culture

16:15 – 17:00   Luigi Dei, University of Florence: 

  Primo Levi's Lesson: A Bridge between Chemistry and Literature

Friday 28 October 2011

9:00 - 9:45   Sharon Ruston, University of Salford: 

  Humphry Davy: Chemistry, Poetry and the Sublime

10:00 – 11:30  Parallel sessions  

Panel 3: Goethe: Elective Affinities

Panel 4: Davy, Wordsworth and Coleridge, - and the Sublime

11:45 – 12:45   George Rousseau, University of Oxford: 

   Science Politics, Biography, and Ludwig Boltzmann

14:00 – 14:30  Pierre Laszlo, Ecole polytechnique and University of  Liège: 

   Le Chant du Styrène - The song of styrene

14:45 – 15:30    Parallel sessions  

Panel 5 and 6: Literature and Alchemy  

15:45 – 17:15  Paola Spinozzi, University of Ferrara:

  Representing and Narrativizing Science