Evolutionary physician Professor Randolph Nesse explores the idea of 'Darwin's eye', and discusses what evolution means for our bodies, our emotions and our behaviour - as well as...

Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts

Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009

John Brooke, former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, gives his take on the exhibition 'Endless Forms', and discusses the implications of...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009

Dr. Gowan Dawson discusses the intriguing representation - and sexualisation - of apes in the nineteenth century, from pickled specimens on display to an eager public to images of...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Wed 29 Jul 2009

Professor Elizabeth Edwards explores how the emerging mass medium of photography engaged with popular Darwinian ideas in the nineteenth century, and how notions of race, 'type'...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Mon 3 Aug 2009

Science writer Dr. Marek Kohn discusses the various artistic reactions to the bleaker side of evolutionary thinking, as presented in the exhibition 'Endless Forms'. Is nature a...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Wed 2 Sep 2009

Dame Gillian Beer discusses ideas of poverty, struggle and competition as explored in the painting 'On Strike' (1891), and examines how Darwinian notions of 'the survival of the...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Mon 21 Sep 2009

Why was the young Darwin's fascination with geology so important for his later work? And why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? A podcast with...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Fri 5 Jun 2009

Dr. John van Wyhe, Director of Darwin Online (darwin-online.org.uk), discusses Darwin's student days at Christ's College, Cambridge in the 1820s, and investigates the young...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Thu 18 Jun 2009

Plant specimens may seem an unlikely starting point for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection - but, as Professor John Parker investigates in this podcast, the...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009

What evolutionary purpose does beauty serve? And why does the idea of 'female mate choice' not hold true when it comes to primates and humans? From peacocks' tails to the kinds of...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Thu 2 Jul 2009

Nobel Prize-winning biologist and Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse takes a tour of the exhibition 'Endless Forms', introducing his personal highlights from a...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Mon 6 Jul 2009

Can Darwinian ideas of evolution and adaptation really explain why we are how we are? Philosopher of science Professor Philip Kitcher explores the insights - and pitfalls - that...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Tue 7 Jul 2009

Sir Peter Crane, Former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, talks about the fascinating friendship between Darwin and the botanist Joseph Hooker. (An audio-only podcast...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Wed 8 Jul 2009

Lord Robert May, Former President of the Royal Society and UK Government Chief Advisor for Science explores the significance of Darwin and his 'unsolved problems' for the issues...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Thu 9 Jul 2009

Akanksha Mehta (SOAS): Visual Narratives of `Fierce`Goddesses and `Brave` Women

Collection: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Tue 21 May 2013

Student Project by Marlene Shäfers.
A visual engagment with Cambridge's Sidgwick Site libraries.

Collection: Department of Social Anthropology

Institution: Department of Social Anthropology

Created: Fri 22 Jul 2011

An interview with Alan Macfarlane in August 2006, questions by Kenong Guan, filmed by Xiaoxiao Yan

Collection: Reflections on Cambridge

Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 5 Aug 2013

Jane Munro, Co-Curator of the 'Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts' at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (16 June - 4 October 2009) introduces the...

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Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum

Created: Mon 8 Jun 2009

Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods conference at CRASSH.

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Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Wed 1 May 2013

Gary O’Donoghue, a BBC journalist who has a visual impairment, discusses his career.

Collection: Disability Resource Centre Careers Event 2012

Institution: Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre

Created: Fri 10 May 2013