Darwin Festival: Public Lectures
All lectures began at 5.30pm and took place in the Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building.
Thursday 15th October 2009
The Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts
Dame Gillian Beer
Writer and Darwin Scholar
What happened to Darwin’s early passion for music, poetry, and visual art? Did it simply die away or was it transformed in his later theories?
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Institute of Biology Charter Lecture
A Behavioural Ecologist Takes a Walk through the ‘Toon’: Explorations in Urban Human Ecology
Daniel Nettle
Reader, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University
A look at how human behaviour varies with the ecological context people live in, even over areas as small as a single city.
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Darwin, Ideology and God
Denis Alexander
Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University
A critical discussion of the many ways in which evolution has been used ideologically, from Darwin’s era to Dawkins and the Creationists.
