Conference No. 10 of the Alexander von Humboldt Association UK to mark the 150th
anniversary of the death of Alexander von Humboldt is to be held in the Winstanley
Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge (in Whewell’s Court, off Trinity Street, opposite the
main entrance of Trinity College) on Saturday, 17 October 2009. Organised jointly by the
Department of German, University of Cambridge and the Alexander von Humboldt
Association UK.
Programme
10.00 Arrivals & Coffee
10.30 Welcome by the Master of Trinity, Lord Rees PRS and Professor Roger Paulin,
Alexander von Humboldt Association UK President
11.00 Professor Helmut Schwarz (President Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung): ‘Humboldt
the Scientist’
12.00 Dr Johannes Vogel (Natural History Museum, London): ‘Humboldt and Darwin’
13.00-14.20 Lunch in the University Combination Room. (Entry is through the Gonville &
Caius Library opposite the Gate of Honour in the Senate House Passage.)
[14.00 Executive Committee Meeting]
14.30 Professor Anil Bhatti (Delhi): ‘Humboldt and Colonialism’
15.30 Tea
16.00 Professor Ottmar Ette (Potsdam): ‘Humboldt, the New World and a New World’
17.00 Alexander von Humboldt Association UK Annual General Meeting
18.30 Drinks reception Master’s Lodge Trinity College
[19.30 Dinner at Trinity College Master’s Lodge (invited guests)]
Visitors may also like to view an exhibition on the life and work of Alexander von
Humboldt in the University Library (open 9-16.30 on 17 October)
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