Episode 3 - How Many Cultures?

LitSciPod: The Literature and Science Podcast

Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric) Music composed and performed by Gareth Jones Laura and Catherine are joined by a special guest: Dr Will Tattersdill (@WillTattersdill), Senior Lecturer in Popular Literature at the University of Birmingham. In addition to discussing #litsci aspects of his research and teaching, Will also explores disciplinary boundaries, science fiction, dinosaurs in science and culture (including Dinotopia!), the status of popular literature in the university, and the importance of education and outreach. At the end of the episode, you can hear Will read the end of H. G. Wells’s novel The Time Machine (1895) Episode resources: Books mentioned: Phyllis Weliver, Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900: Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home (Routledge, 2000) Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture (Houghton Mifflin, 1934) Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Croom Helm, 1976) Stuart Hall, Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Sage, 1997). If you want to become more familiar with the Two Cultures debate, here are some of the articles and books Laura and Catherine mention in the episode: Thomas H. Huxley, ‘Science and Culture’ (1880) Matthew Arnold, ‘Literature and Science’ (1882) C. P. Snow, ‘The Two Cultures’ (1959) F. R. Leavis, ‘Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow’ (1962) George Levine, ed. One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987) Frank Furedi, Roger Kimball, Raymond Tallis and Robert Whelan, eds., From Two Cultures To No Culture: CP Snow’s Two Cultures’ Lecture Fifty Years On (Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, 2009) We hope you’ve enjoyed this episode of LitSciPod - we enjoyed making it!