Events

A list of recent and upcoming Senior Scholars events:

On Darwin and the Joys of Science

November 13, 2008
Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center, East Campus (Map/Directions)

George Levine
Senior Scholar
Columbia University

Professor George Levine explored the stylistic aspects of Darwin's scientific writings.  He argued that Darwin's powers of observation and his skill in registering those observations in often lovely prose is imaginative, precise, metaphorical, and emotionally engaged by way of language with his subjects -- in a word, "enchanted".