The Evolution of Literature:
Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures
A Conference at the
Institute of Advanced Study
and
St Mary's College,
University of Durham
4-6 April 2008
Sponsored by the British Academy
Co-ordinated by Simon J. James and Nicholas Saul
Programme
Friday 4 April
15.00-17.00: Registration
Section One: The Anglophone World
17.30-18.30 David Amigoni (Keele): Down the Darwinian Line(s):
Inherited Characteristics in Biology, Literature and Culture
20.00-21.00 A.S. Byatt and Patricia Waugh (Durham): Darwin and the
Writers (Institute of Advanced Study)
Saturday 5 April
09.30-11.00 Anna Barton (Keele): An Evolutionist to His Son: Tennyson,
Darwin and the Poetry of Inheritance
John Holmes (Reading): Victorian Evolutionary
Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience
11.30-13.00 Jon Adams (London): Value Judgements and Functional Roles:
Carroll's Quarrel With Pinker
Wendy Wheeler (London): The Book of Nature and the
Semiosic Tree of Life: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature
Section Two: The Francophone World
14.30-16.00 Christopher Lloyd (Durham): Contemporary Scientific Ideas
and the Representation of the Monstrous, Atavism and Degeneration in
Texts by Stevenson, Wells, Maupassant and Mirbeau
Louise Lyle (Sheffield): The Evolution of Humanity
in Vercors's " Les animaux dénaturés" and Romain Gary's "Les racines
du ciel"
16.30-17.15 Douglas Morrey (Warwick): Houellebecq, Genetics and
Evolutionary Psychology
18.00-19.00 David Baguley (Toronto): Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment
Sunday 6 April
Section Three: The Germanophone World
09.00-10.00 John A. McCarthy (Vanderbilt): Nietzsche and Darwin: Life
as Literature, Literature as Life
10.30-12.00 David Midgley (Cambridge): The Reception of Bergson's
"L'évolution créatrice" in the German-Speaking World
Katja Mellmann (Munich): Evolutionary Psychology as Heuristic of
Literary Studies
Crossovers
12.15-13.00 Christine Kanz (Texas): Origin in Question: Lamarck,
Darwin and the Historical Avant-garde
The Future
14.30-15.15 Alistair Brown (Durham): The E-Volutionary Novel:
Darwinian Digital Narratives
Outlook
16.30-17.30 Elinor Shaffer (London): The Reception of Darwin in Europe
All papers will be delivered in St Mary's College except where
indicated at the Institute of Advanced Study.
Conference site address:
St Mary's College
University of Durham
Elvet Hill Road
GB-Durham DH1 3LR
Telephone (Reception) 0044 (0)191 334 5719
http://www.dur.ac.uk/st-marys.college/
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/
Conference organisers:
Simon J. James [log in to unmask]
Nicholas Saul [log in to unmask]
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Attendance fee including tea/coffee and lunch £100 (unwaged £45)
Accommodation and full board £167.75 (incl. VAT @ 17.5%)
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Mrs H.A. Fenwick
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University of Durham
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