Hutton Honors College

On Literature, Science, Virginia Woolf, and Darwin
A Discussion Supper with British Writer and Scholar Dame Gillian Beer

Thursday, April 10, 2008 * 5-6:30 p.m. * Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St. * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Dame Gillian Beer is an eminent writer and scholar who is credited with reintegrating the English literary tradition and modern scientific thought. In 1994, she was named King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, as well as the President of the Cambridge graduate college, Clare Hall, a position she held for seven years. She has been the vice president of the British Academy, chairman of the Poetry Book Society, and a judge as well as chairman of the judges of the Booker Prize for Fiction. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her many books include Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction; and Virginia Woolf: the Common Ground. Join us for discussion that can range as widely as your interests. The supper is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

On campus as a Patten Lecturer, she will speak on "Darwin and the Consciousness of Others" on Tuesday, April 8, and on "Darwin's 'filthy heraldries': Why Did Darwin's Theories Cause Scandal?" on Thursday, April 10. Both lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. in Rawles 100 and are free and open to the public.

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