Colloquim - The Cultural Impact of Darwin and Darwinism in Europe

A one-day Colloquium on the Cultural Impact of Darwin and Darwinism in Europe will be held at Clare Hall, Cambridge, on Friday 12 March 2010, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Organized by the Research Project on the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, the Colloquium will consist of a series of 15-minute papers followed by short discussion and builds on the success of last year's Darwin in Europe Colloquium at Christ's College. The event will act as a forum for contributions to a third volume of The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe, focusing on Darwin's cultural and literary reception.

The range of topics and speakers include:

• Philip Ajouri (Stuttgart) 'Darwinist Weltanschauung: Literature and Science in Germany'
• Tom Glick (Boston) 'Unamuno's Hair Shirt: The 1909 Darwin Centennial in Valencia'
• Peter Kjaergaard (Cambridge & Aarhus) 'Jacobsen and the First Danish Translation and Literary Response'
• Eduard Kolchinsky (St Petersburg) 'Darwin's Centenaries in Russia: 1909, 1959 and 2009'
• Travis Landry (Kenyon, Ohio) 'Selection in Relation to Sex and the Spanish Literary Imagination'
• Patricia da Silva McNeill (King's, London) and Pedro Fonseca (Coimbra) 'The Portuguese "Generation of the 1870s": Eça de Queiroz in England'
• Donald Rayfield (Queen Mary) 'Darwin and Russian Writers: Chekhov and Mandelstam'
• Daniel Schuemann (Bamberg) 'Darwinism = Hamletism? Sienkiewicz's futile Crusade against Polish Positivism'
• Elinor Shaffer (Cambridge & London) 'Darwin's reception in the literary magazine Revue des Deux Mondes'
• Katalin Straner (Budapest) 'Darwinism and Literary Culture in Late Nineteenth-century Hungary'
• Paul White (Cambridge) 'Darwin's correspondence and sentimental culture'

Registration costs £35 (£30 in advance); £15 for students.
For further details and to register (space is limited) please contact the Project Office: RBAE@fsmail.net <mailto:RBAE@fsmail.net>

The Research Project: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Director: Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA

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