Upcoming events
- “Le journal d’une femme de chambre” (1954, 93 min)(today)
- "The Eternal Returns of Michel Houellebecq"(2 days)
- “The European ‘Enlightenment’”(3 days)
- “Les débats sur la laïcité : histoire et enjeux”(3 days)
- “Durkheim and Other Thinkers”(4 days)
- “‘Lasse, fet ele’…Le long écho des chansons de femmes”(7 days)
- “La Rochefoucauld et le laboratoire moraliste”(9 days)
- “The importance of Holocaust testimonies” (10 days)
- "Lévi-Strauss and British Anthropology"(13 days)
Genes and Environment: Darwin and Lamark revisited
MAISON FRANÇAISE
D'OXFORD
is
pleased to announce the following colloquium,
sponsored by the Balliol College, the Science Departments
*
GENES AND ENVIRONMENT:
DARWIN AND LAMARCK REVISITED
13 and 14 March
Friday 13 March: 10am - 6pm in the Sherrington Room, Physiology Department
Chair: Tom Melham (Computing Laboratory, Oxford)
Pietro Corsi (Oxford) "What did Lamarck actually say?"
Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv) "Evolution in 4 dimensions"
Jean-Jacques Kupiec (ENS, Paris) "The origin of individuals"
Buffet Lunch
Chair to be confirmed
Martin Brasier (Oxford) "Darwin's lost world"
Duncan Odom (Cambridge) "Cross-species experiments: what marks the genome?"
Tea break
Eric Werner (Oxford) "How Epi is Epigenetics? Or, where is the information for ontogeny and evolution?"
Lynn Margulis (Amherst/Oxford) "The origin of species"
Saturday 14 March: 10am - 1pm at the Maison Française d'Oxford
Chair: Serge Plattard (Science and Technology Counsellor, French Embassy)
Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT/Oxford) "Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Inherent activity of matter"
Evelyn Fox Keller, Denis Noble, Eric Werner, Pietro Corsi:
Closing round table debate introduced by Denis Noble on the theme "Where now?" his text
Buffet Lunch
