Endersby Lecturing

Darwin 2009

 

2009 was the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. I have been speaking about Darwin at various public events around the world; all the dates are now past, but there are podcasts of one or two online here, if you're interested.

The picture shows me in full flight (it seems I really get excited about Darwin) at Techfest, University of Aberdeen, back in September (photo courtesy TechFest-SetPoint).

 

 

Darwin events

February 5:

Winchester Darwin Festival (public lecture on Darwin at the Winchester Discovery Centre).

March 10:

Highgate Literary and Philosophical Society (Talk on Darwin’s botanical work).

March 21:

National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia (Talk on Darwin’s friend Joseph Hooker, part of a public conference on exploration and discovery).

March 23:

The Disorder of Things: Darwin and the controversies over classification. Public lecture at the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney.

March 26:

'Debunking Darwin?'. Public lecture at the Australian Museum, Sydney on re-reading the Origin.

April 17–18

‘Sympathetic Science: Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, and the Passions of Victorian Naturalists’, at the conference Darwin and the Boundaries of Science, New York University, NY. An audio recording of this talk is now available online.

April 30

Public lecture on Darwin, American University of Paris.

May 16:

Darwin's London, organised by the Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons.

July 11-12

'Classifying in the field: Darwin, Hooker and the permanence of species', paper at the conference Darwin in the field: Collecting, Observation and Experiment, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge.

September 5:

British Science Association annual meeting, University of Surrey (public talk for the session ‘Does Darwin have a future?’).

September 23:

TechFest, University of Aberdeen (public lecture  on Darwin).

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Jim Endersby

At Aberdeen's Techfest (photo courtesy TechFest-SetPoint).

 

October 9

'Smashing species: Joseph Hooker and Victorian science', public lunchtime talk at the Royal Society [podcast now online].

October 22

Evening seminar on Darwin, Ian Ramsey Centre for science and religion in the University of Oxford.

October 27:

University of Plymouth (public lecture on Darwin, part of the Peninsula Arts Festival).

November 18:

American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, USA (public lecture in association with the Penn Humanities Forum).

November 19:

Public lecture "Darwinian myths: re-reading the Origin of Species"
at The University of Pennsylvania.

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