Please see below for a Call for Papers for The Darwins Reconsidered, a one-day colloquium which will take place at Roehampton University in September.<\/p>\n
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A One-Day Colloquium <\/em> Keynote Speakers: Plenary Speaker: When the 28-year-old Charles Darwin first opened his \u2018evolutionary\u2019 notebook in 1837, he deployed the title of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin\u2019s medical treatise, Zoonomia (1794-6). By then, Erasmus — poet, doctor, inventor, leading light of the Birmingham Lunar Society — had drifted into comparative obscurity; best remembered as the eccentric genius whose work The Loves of the Plants (1789) had been notoriously parodied as The Loves of the Triangles.<\/p>\n Erasmus was never forgotten by his more famous grandson, however, and throughout Charles\u2019s career, Erasmus\u2019s writing and thinking acted as both catalyst and antagonist to Charles\u2019s burgeoning evolutionary ideas, on such subjects as heredity, variation and sexual selection. Forty-two years later, Erasmus was also the subject of Charles\u2019s own venture into non-scientific writing \u2013 a biography of his illustrious grandfather.<\/p>\n In the first academic conference to formally consider the imaginative and scientific relationship between these two remarkable speculative thinkers, we ask, in what ways did Erasmus\u2019s life and works facilitate and anticipate Charles\u2019s ideas, and how did Charles mobilise the stated and unstated affinities with Erasmus to enrich his own thinking?<\/p>\n We invite papers of 20 minutes that consider the two writers in the following broad subject areas:<\/p>\n \u2022 Poetry, aesthetics, and writing style Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words, accompanied by a short biography, to the conference organisers, Professor. Martin Priestman (M.Priestman@roehampton.ac.uk<\/a>) & Dr Louise Lee (Louise.Lee@roehampton.ac.uk<\/a>) by 1 June, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nFriday September 4, 2015<\/em>
\nUniversity of Roehampton<\/em><\/p>\n
\nProfessor David Amigoni (Keele University)
\nProfessor Tim Fulford (De Montfort University)<\/p>\n
\nDr John Holmes (Reading University)<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 scientific families & heredity
\n\u2022 evolution
\n\u2022 styles of observation
\n\u2022 humour and excess
\n\u2022 pleasure
\n\u2022 biography
\n\u2022 the relation between arts and sciences
\n\u2022 the natural world
\n\u2022 variation and diversification
\n\u2022 geology
\n\u2022 family life
\n\u2022 experimentation
\n\u2022 scientific method
\n\u2022 public and private sphere<\/p>\n