Darwin our Contemporary - International Conference

Darwin our Contemporary
International Conference


27-28 November 2009
Artur-Woll-Haus

Siegen University
Anglistik

We live under the rule of a “biocracy” (Wolfgang Lipp). Biology and the life sciences have attained an enormous power of discourse in recent years, particularly since the decoding of the human genome and other advances in the field of genetic engineering. In view of this recent trend towards “gene centrism” (John Dupré 2003), the conference will offer a platform for a cultural and media-anthro¬pologi¬cal analysis of the contemporary mediatization of post-Darwinian bio-determinism as well as neo-determinist and neo-Darwinist culture, literature and art. We ask how naturalism, determinism and Darwinism – the eugenics of the 19th century and the genetic coding of the 20th century as well as their conceptual clusters – are positioned, embodied and staged in various media configurations and media genres and how particular media apparatuses have formed, displaced or stabilized virulent percep¬tions, collective symbols and patterns of attitude, i. e. various concepts of humankind. The conference aims at establishing and assessing the role of Darwin and cultural per¬formances of his life and work in the context of the dominant positions of current bio-poetical research into ‘literary Darwinism’.

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