Tough Questions on the Menu - Trinity Lectures 2009.

 

Waving not drowning! Keeping afloat in a fast changing world.

Four supper table talks for those who don’t expect easy answers.

 

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Friday 9th October – Changing the World. Charles Darwin: Public Scientist, Private Man.?

Alison Pearn, Assistant Director, the Darwin Correspondence Project.

 

In his bicentenary year, Darwin is a more starkly contentious figure than ever. Who was the man behind the icon? How did he come to change our view of the place of humanity in the natural world? And does it matter whether we have an accurate  understanding of him as a person? An historian by training Dr Alison Pearn joined the Project in 1996, and has collaborated on seven of the sixteen volumes of Darwin’s letters so far published. She is also the co-editor of a volume of selected letters, and has just edited an illustrated book about the Darwin collections in the University, which complements an exhibition on the Beagle

voyage at Cambridge University Library of  which she is curator. For more information on the project see  www.darwinproject.ac.uk..

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