Problems in the History of Science:
Darwin in History: Contexts and Issues
Conveners: Professors Pietro Corsi and Peter Harrison
Michaelmas Term 2009: Thursdays, 3–5pm in the Colin Matthew Room,
History Faculty, Old Boys’ High School, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
Week 1 (15 October)
Martin Rudwick (University of Cambridge):
"Seeing Nature as historical: Darwin's greatest debt to geology"
Week 2 (22 October)
Jim Endersby (University of Sussex):
"Sympathetic Science: Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, and the Passions of
Victorian Naturalists"
Week 3 (29 October)
Jim Moore (Open University):
"Darwin's Progress and the Problem of Slavery"
Week 4 (5 November)
Mark Francis (Canterbury Christ Church University):
"Spencer and the taming of the natural world"
Week 5 (12 November)
Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford):
"The transformations of life: pre-Darwinian national and institutional
landscapes"
Week 6 (19 November)
John Brooke (University of Oxford):
"The Fate of Darwin’s ‘Creator’ "
Week 7 (26 November)
Jim Secord (University of Cambridge):
"Global Darwin"
Week 8 (3 December)
Robert Richards (University of Chicago):
"Darwin’s Enchanting Theory"
The Seminar is part of a programme made possible by The British Council,
in collaboration with the University of Tel Aviv and the Van Leer
Foundation, Jerusalem
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