At Home with Charles Darwin

Hosted by: AIIA, NSW and the Harvard Club of Australia

The event will start on: Wednesday, 04 August 2010 6:00 PM

And will end on: Wednesday, 04 August 2010 7:30 PM

At The Glover Cottages, Sydney

124 Kent Street , Sydney NSW

02 9247 2709     nswexec@aiia.asn.au

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The recent celebration of the life of Charles Darwin in Richard Attenborough’s series broadcast on ABC Television created huge interest in the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species. Darwin’s achievement was remarkable and long-lasting.

Less well-known is his life as a family man. Supported by a private income after his return from the Beagle voyage, much of his research for the Origin of Species was carried out in his house and gardens. A great deal of his work was also carried out through correspondence. This talk offers some insights into Darwin’s domestic life and its importance for his theories.

Speaker: Professor Janet Browne

Harvard Professor of Historical Anthropology

Janet Browne is Aramont Professor of the history of science at Harvard University with a special interest in Charles Darwin’s life and work. Formerly she was a member of the Darwin Correspondence Project based in Cambridge University Library, and taught at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. She is the author of a two-volume biography of Darwin, Voyaging (1995), and The Power of Place (2003). She has also written a short study about the publication and impact of the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin’s Origin: A Biography (2006). Earlier works include The Secular Ark (1983) and a jointly edited Dictionary of the History of Science (1981). Her current research is on the visual history of the gorilla.