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Colleagues may be interested in the following event, which concludes this year's programme for the 'Author in the Popular Imagination' series, held at Wolfson College, Oxford. 'THE AUTHOR IN THE MEDICAL IMAGINATION', Monday 15 June, Wolfson College, 5.30pm I am pleased to announce the programme for the third of the 'Author in the Popular Imagination' seminar series. This will take place at Wolfson College, Oxford (Haldane Room) on Monday 15 June at 5.30pm. The event is open to all, free of charge, and refreshments will be provided. For further information please see http://oxfordcelebritynetwork.com/2015/05/11/the-author-in-the-medical-imagination/ or contact [log in to unmask] ANN JEFFERSON (New College, Oxford): 'The Author in the Medical Imagination: Some Cases from the French Nineteenth Century' This paper will explore the changing and often ambivalent relations between the medical profession and writers over the course of the nineteenth century, where the doctor can be both pathologist and associate in the literary enterprise. Respondent: GEOFFREY WALL (York) Ann Jefferson is a Professor of French at Oxford University and Fellow & Tutor of New College, Oxford. She has published books on the nouveau roman, Stendhal, Nathalie Sarraute, Biography and the Question of Literature, and most recently on Genius in France: An Idea and its Uses (Princeton UP, 2015). She is currently working on a biography of Nathalie Sarraute. Geoffrey Wall is a literary biographer. He works in the Department of English at the University of York. He has published Flaubert: A Life (Faber 2001) and, more recently The Enlightened Physician(Peter Lang 2013). His current project is a biography of George Sand. In a previous incarnation, he translated Madame Bovary (Penguin, 1990) and Sentimental Education (Penguin, 1997).