February 2023 – Darwin Day lecture

Leture on Charles Darwin

The Humanist Association of Ireland hosted Professor Janet Browne from Harvard University, to deliver our 2023 Darwin Day Lecture.  Lecture Topic: Charles Darwin: Rationality and Religion in a Victorian Context

Janet Browne from Harvard University

Professor Janet Browne is Aramont Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University and she is a renowned expert on Charles Darwin. After a first degree in zoology at TCD she took a PhD in the history of science at Imperial College London and went on to work as associate editor of the early volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. She is best known for a two-volume biography of Darwin that integrated his science with his life and times. She is thrilled to hold an Honorary degree from her alma mater, Trinity College Dublin, awarded in 2009, in recognition of her contribution to the biographical knowledge of Charles Darwin.

You can read a full biography of Professor Janet Browne on the Harvard website.

A recording of the event is available on our YouTube channel.