DARWINISM AFTER DARWIN: NEW HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
University of Leeds
3rd-5th September, 2007
www.darwinismafterdarwin.com

***PROGRAMME***

Monday 3rd September

1.00 Welcome

1.10 Histories

Science and the life story: the historical development of biographies of
Darwin Suzanne Gapps, University of Western Sydney

A lesson from the past: how biologists use history
Graeme Beale, Edinburgh University

Historiographical constraints: the divergence of conceptualisations of
'inheritance of acquired characteristics' Fern Elsdon-Baker, University of
Leeds

"Sure, we know all that.": dealing with popular Darwin myths
Peter C. Kjærgaard, University of Aarhus

3.10 Tea/Coffee

3.40 Religion

Paley evolving: natural theologies in the post-Darwinian nineteenth century
Richard England, Salisbury University, USA

The un-heretical Christian: Lynn Harold Hough, Darwinism and Christianity
in 1920s America Dawn Mooney Digrius, Drew University, New Jersey

Arguing from the evidence: the correct approach to Intelligent Design and
the U.S. courts Brian Thomasson, University of California

5.10 Break

5.30 Depart for main University of Leeds campus

6.00 PUBLIC EVENT  From Darwin to Hitler: author meets critics

Richard Weikart responds to critics of his work. Participants include
Staffan Mueller-Wille (University Of Exeter), Steve Fuller (University of
Warwick), and John Harwood (University of Manchester)

7.30 Drinks reception, and dinner for conference delegates

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Tuesday 4th September

9.00 Bodies

Rational evolution? Sexual selection in animals & humans, 1915-1935
Erika Lorraine Milam, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Boas at the Darwin centenary
Greg Radick, University of Leeds

Darwin at Cold Spring Harbor: the new synthesis tackles human evolution
Jessie Richmond, University of Leeds

10.30 Tea/Coffee

11.00 Latin America Darwinism on the other side of the Atlantic: race and
scientific racism in Latin America

Science, modernity, and evolution: British scientific travellers in Latin
America in the late-19th and early-20th centuries John Fisher University of
Liverpool

Darwinisme et régénérescence au Mexique au XIX siècle Sonia Lozano, Centre
de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société (CERMES), Paris

The transmission of scientific knowledge to Latin America: uses and misuses
of Darwinism in Mexico in the XIX Century Natalia Priego, Institute of
Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool

12.30 Cyberspace

How Darwin Online can suggest new historical perspectives
John van Wyhe, University of Cambridge

1.00 Lunch


2.00 Case studies

The biogeography of power: August Weismann, acclimatization, and the German
Empire Adam Christopher Lawrence, University of California

>From Haeckel with love: Lennart Nilsson's morphed embryos and the cultural
loops of Darwinism Solveig Jülich, Stockholm University

"The Armageddon of the future": racial poisoning and the Victorian
laboratory James Wood, University of Edinburgh

3.25 - 3.35 Break

Eugenics in 1921: a comparison
Hiram Caton, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Communist reception of Darwin: postwar East Germany and Czechoslovakia in
comparison, 1945-1965 Uwe Hossfeld , Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena,
Michal Simunek and Tomas Hermann, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

4.30 Tea/Coffee

5.00 The Arts

Darwinism and contemporary poetry
John Holmes, University of Reading

The Thinking Path
Shirley Chubb

6.00 Break

6.15 Keynote Address

[Title TBC]
Peter Bowler, Queen's University Belfast


7.30 Conference Dinner

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Wednesday 5th September

9.00 Mind

Why doing history is like remembering: the implications of neo-Darwinian
philosophies of consciousness for the practice of history Francis Neary,
CHSTM, University of Manchester

Resolving the "Darwinian paradox": Lionel Penrose and the genetics of
mental ability, deficiency and disease Edmund Ramsden, London School of
Economics

[Title TBC]
Fabio Zampieri, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL

10.30 Coffee/Tea

11.00 Society

Ignorance of natural selection in the social sciences
John Z. Langrish

Darwin, evolution and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British
sociology Chris Renwick, University of Leeds

Giving Darwin a decent burial
Steve Fuller, University of Warwick

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Round Table Discussion

Darwinism after Darwin: new historical perspectives Participants: Joe Cain
(UCL) , Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter), Greg Radick
(University of Leeds), Jon Hodge (University of Leeds).

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