We are excited to announce our first guest lecture of the 2018-19 academic year will be given by Dr Şima İmşir (Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, İstanbul Şehir University). The details are below: “A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes”: Biological Debt, Illness and the Limits of Nation State in Women’s Writing in Turkish Science, technology and medicine functioned in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century and onwards as focal concerns…