History of Science at the British Science Festival

The British Science Festival at The University of Surrey in Guildford runs from 5-10 September 2009.

Our Presidential Session this year: Does Darwin have a future? – Sunday 6th September, 16.00-18.00

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 – Wednesday 9th September, 16.00-17.00
• Food in our Lives: Food, Medicine, Science and Culture – Thursday 10th September, 13.30-15.15
• What’s So Funny About Science? – Saturday 5th September, 17.00-19.00
• Too Hot to Handle – Thursday 10th September, 16.30-18.00
• 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)