To mark the 350th anniversary of the death of the poet of Paradise Lost and radical polemicist John Milton, we are pitting him against Christ's other most famous son, Charles Darwin, in a battle-of-the-alumni showdown, also paying tribute to C.P. Snow's concept of 'the two cultures'.
On team Milton:
- Colin Burrow, professor of Renaissance literature at All Soul's College, Oxford and literary critic for the London Review of Books
- Orlando Reade, author of the forthcoming book What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost (Penguin, Nov 2024).
On team Darwin:
- Award-winning poet and great-great-grand-daughter of Darwin, Ruth Padel
- Christ's Fellow, palaeontologist and professor of natural sciences, David Norman.
Christ's English Fellows Sophie Read and Katie Mennis will host this engaging and light-hearted evening of disciplinary rivalry.
Free and open to all. Book via eventbrite.
