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Conference Program
Friday, October 15, 2010 | |
6:00 pm | Dominique Lecourt, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Université Denis Diderot – Paris 7 Darwinism and Bioethics in the 19th Century Opening Lecture |
Saturday, October 16, 2010 | |
9:00 am | Welcome and Introduction |
Chair: Susanne Lettow | |
9:15 am | Margaret Schabas, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver More like Apes than Angels: Natural Historical Modes of Thinking in the Economics of David Hume and Adam Smith Commentator: Peter Hanns Reill |
10:30 am | Joan Steigerwald, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, York University, Toronto Generation and Degeneration at the Birth of Biology in Germany at the End of the Eighteenth Century Commentator: Jocelyn Holland |
11:45 am | Coffee break |
12:00 am | Peter Hanns Reill, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Enlightenment Vitalism, Romantic Naturphilosophie and the Construction of Gender Commentator: Joan Steigerwald |
1:15 pm | Lunch |
Chair: Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, Researcher, Institute for Romance Studies, University of Vienna | |
2:45 pm | Jocelyn Holland, Associate Professor, Department of German, University of California, Santa Barbara Zeugung/Fortpflanzung. Media Distinctions in the Discourse on Procreation around 1800 Commentator: Renato G. Mazzolini |
4:00 pm | Coffee break |
4:30 pm | Susanne Lettow, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna; Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Paderborn Reproduction, Gender and Time: Conceptual Constellations in Kielmeyer, Schelling and Oken |
Sunday, October 17, 2010 | |
Chair: Sandra Lehmann, Researcher, Vienna | |
9:30 am | Andrew Wells, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh Generating Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain Commentator: Susanne Lettow |
10:30 am | Coffee break |
10:45 am | Renato G. Mazzolini, Professor of History of Science and Technology, University of Trento Skin Colour and the Origin of Physical Anthropology (1640-1850) Commentator: Andrew Wells |
11:45 | Final discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
The workshop is part of the research project
The Symbolic Power of Biology:
Articulations of Biological Knowledge in Naturphilosophie Around 1800
funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
With friendly support of
Institut Français de Vienne.
Information and registration:
Susanne Lettow
