Professor Jim Secord will be giving a lecture on 'Global Darwin' at 5.30pm, Friday 30th January. The event will take place at Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, as part of the Darwin College Lecture Series.

Professor Secord, who recently contributed to Melvyn Bragg's 'In Our Time', will be discussing how Darwin came to be so widely recognised around the world:

"Darwin, with his grizzled beard and deep sad eyes, appears today as a ubiquitous icon, his image appearing on posters, book jackets, banknotes, and postage stamps from around the world. The debates about his ideas are international, and have been almost from the first publication of his main evolutionary books. How did this come to be the case? To answer this we can begin by stepping back from the immediate impact of the Origin of Species and Descent of Man, to view these books in the context of long-standing controversies about evolution and materialism from the eighteenth century onwards."

For more details about the talk, click here.