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05/14/2004 - 05/17/2004 | Bamberg
International Conference
Biology, Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1900
Centre for British Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany, 14-16 May 2004
Programme and Organization: Dr. Anne-Julia Zwierlein
Supported by: DFG and British Council
During the nineteenth century the natural sciences acquired their persisting cultural authority. Today's biological research and the life sciences have their foundations in that period which completed the change from natural philosophy to experimentalist science. Fundamental scientific discoveries, especially in the fields of evolutionary and micro-biology, transformed Victorian beliefs about the place of humans in nature. However, the division between science and the humanities was not recognized in the nineteenth century: Scientists (e.g. Robert Chambers, Charles Darwin, G.H. Lewes, T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall) and creative writers drew on a common imagination in terms of subject matter, language, style and imagery.
This interdisciplinary conference will focus on some of the cultural and literary constructions of nineteenth-century biology. Distinguished academics and younger scholars from Europe and the United States will deal with the following key issues: Ordering Knowledge; Biology and Gender; Darwinist Cultures; Continental Responses to Darwinism; Insects and Monsters; Cells and Communication; Physiology and Psychology. Among the creative writers covered will be Thomas Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Peter Kropotkin, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G. Wells.
Organisation
Dr. Anne-Julia Zwierlein
Tel: (0049)(0)951 863 2274
Fax: (0049)(0)951 863 5274
Email: anne.zwierlein@split.uni-bamberg.de
Information on participating / attending:
Bitte senden Sie eine schriftliche Anmeldung an folgende Adresse / email:
Centre for British Studies
Dr. Anne-Julia Zwierlein
Kapuzinerstr. 25
96045 Bamberg
anne.zwierlein@split.uni-bamberg.de
Date:
05/14/2004 14:00 - 05/17/2004 17:15
Event venue:
Centre for British Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany (An der Universität 2, Raum 025)
96045 Bamberg
Bayern
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Biology, History / archaeology, Information technology, Language / literature
Types of events:
Entry:
04/21/2004
Sender/author:
Dr. Oliver Pfohlmann
Department:
Dezernat Kommunikation
Event is free:
unknown
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event11073
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