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SUMMARY:Colloquium on the Cultural Reception of Darwin and Darwinism - Spe
 akers from the USA\, Germany\, Portugal\, Romania\, Russia\, Sweden and th
 e UK
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CONTACT:Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA
DESCRIPTION:A one-day Colloquium on the Cultural Impact of Darwin and Darw
 inism in Europe will be held at Clare Hall\, Cambridge\, on Friday 12 Marc
 h 2010\, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. \n\nOrganized by the Research Project on th
 e Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe\, the Colloquium will c
 onsist of a series of 15-minute papers followed by short discussion. It bu
 ilds on the success of the Darwin in Europe Colloquium held last year at C
 hrist's College. \n\nThe event will act as a forum for contributions to a 
 third volume of _The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe_ (Continuum)\, 
 focusing on Darwin's cultural and literary reception.\n\nThe range of topi
 cs and speakers include:\n\nPhilip Ajouri (Stuttgart) 'Darwinist _Weltansc
 hauung_: Literature and Science in Germany'\n\nTom Glick (Boston) 'Unamuno
 's Hair Shirt: The 1909 Darwin Centennial in Valencia'\n\nPeter Kjaergaard
  (Cambridge & Aarhus) 'Jacobsen and the First Danish Translation and Liter
 ary Response'\n\nEduard Kolchinsky (St Petersburg) 'Darwin's Centenaries i
 n Russia: 1909\, 1959 and 2009'\n\nTravis Landry (Kenyon\, Ohio) 'Selectio
 n in Relation to Sex and the Spanish Literary Imagination'\n\nPatricia da 
 Silva McNeill (King's\, London) and Pedro Fonseca (Coimbra) 'The Portugues
 e "Generation of the 1870s": Eça de Queiroz in England'\n\nDonald Rayfiel
 d (Queen Mary) 'Darwin and Russian Writers: Chekhov and Mandelstam'\n\nDan
 iel Schuemann (Bamberg) 'Darwinism = Hamletism? Sienkiewicz's futile Crusa
 de against Polish Positivism'\n\nElinor Shaffer (Cambridge & London) 'Darw
 in's reception in the literary magazine _Revue des Deux Mondes_' \n\nKatal
 in Straner (Budapest) 'Darwinism and Literary Culture in Late Nineteenth-c
 entury Hungary'\n\nPaul White (Cambridge) 'Darwin's correspondence and sen
 timental culture'\n\nRegistration costs £35 (£30 in advance)\; £15 for 
 students. \nFor further details and to register (space is limited) please 
 contact the Project Office:  RBAE@clarehall.cam.ac.uk\n\nThe Research Proj
 ect: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe\,\nDirector: Dr 
 Elinor Shaffer FBA\n      \n12B Ridgmount Gardens\, London WC1E 7AR \nTel.
 : 020 7323 6861 \n\nwww.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/RBAE
LOCATION:West Court\, Clare Hall\, Herschel Road
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