The Language of Science and Literature around 1900
The decades around 1900 are a crucial period for the impact of
biological thought on the intellectual cultures of the western world.
The impulses of Darwinism were taken up by intellectuals, writers and
artists from the 1860s onwards, and both Darwinian and anti-Darwinian
currents of thinking exercised a powerful influence on the intellectual
climate of the early decades of the twentieth century. It was a period
that saw major developments in cell biology and the establishment of
genetics as we know it, the movement of medical science and psychiatry
beyond mechanistic conceptions of illness, and the emergence of
psychoanalysis and sexology as new disciplines. “Biological Discourses”,
a student-led conference to be held in Cambridge on 10-11 April 2015,
is part of a collaborative venture between the Cambridge Department of
German & Dutch and the Institute for Modern Languages Research,
London, investigating the interplay and the forms of mediation between
literary and biological discourses in that period.
Please see the link (http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/postgraduates/conferences) for registration, programme and further details, or click below:
Biological_ Discourses Prg (Final)
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