Surrey (Guildford) 2009 sessions
The British Science Festival at The University of Surrey in Guildford runs from 5-10 September 2009.
Dates and times of sessions tbc.
Our Presidential Session this year: Does Darwin have a future?
Other events organised by the History of Science Section:
- “The Tables Turned” (with the BSHS Outreach and Education Committee, funded by the Wellcome Trust)
- William Wordsworth at the British Association? Literature and Culture in the Early Years of the British Association
- Food in our Lives: Food, Medicine, Science and Culture
- What’s So Funny About Science?
- Too Hot to Handle
- Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus – Imagining new understandings of sex and gender differences (Joint with Sociology Section)
Our Section President this year is James Moore, Professor of the History of Science at the Open University. His books on Darwin include:
- (with Adrian Desmond) Darwin’s Sacred Cause: race, slavery and the quest for human origins (Allen Lane, 2009)
- (with Adrian Desmond) Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (Michael Joseph, 1991)
