We are pleased to welcome Rebecca Stott (University of East Anglia) on Thursday 3 November 2016 who will present a lecture "Cross-pollinations: narrative in science and Literature". This conference is part of the Distinguished Lectures 2016 from the laboratory IAST on narrative topic.
Thursday 3 November 2016- 18:00 - Amphithéâtre CUJAS - 2, rue des puits creusés 31000 Toulouse- Free access, lecture in english.
Abstract:
Professor Rebecca Stott, novelist and historian of science, will explore the many rich and imaginative ways in which poets, natural philosophers, novelists and dramatists in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries 'cross-pollinated new;narratives about the origins of species. Using a series of case studies from Paris to Derbyshire she will show how literary forms provided a forum where emerging ideas about the evolution of species might be pondered, tested, promoted and dramatised whilst evading the scrutiny of church and state authorities.
