Upcoming Darwin events: February 12th, 2009, marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and 2009 the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species. Carleton University has organized a number of talks to celebrate the work of Darwin and assess his legacy. Invited speakers include Professor David Livingstone of Queen’s University, Belfast (author of Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge); his talk is slated for February 11th.
You can read more about the events in the official poster.
Featured image: Book Illustration from Charles Darwin’s De la variation des animaux et des plantes, Tome 1, pg 158. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.
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Laura Jean Cameron is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University, Kingston, and coordinates the Sonic Arts of Place Lab. As a Canada Research Chair in Historical Geographies of Nature (2003-2012), her work has investigated a range of field sciences as place-based practices and as cultural encounters. Before arriving at Queen’s, she held a Junior Research Fellowship in Historical Geography at Churchill College, Cambridge (1999-2002). She is the author of Openings: A Meditation on History, Method and Sumas Lake, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997 and co-author with John Forrester of Freud in Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017. She also co-edited Emotion, Place and Culture, Ashgate, 2009 and Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness, UBC Press, 2011. Currently she enjoys writing in various genres about fieldwork, emotions and nature, collaborating on sound installations, and hosting the Fireplace Series: Interdisciplinary Conversations, a podcast series you can listen to here: https://podcast.cfrc.ca/the-fireplace-series/.