Dame Gillian Beer to speak about “Darwin’s Universal Impact” at the Cambridge University Darwin Festival

As part of the Cambridge University Darwin Festival, to mark 200 years since Charles Darwin’s birth and 150 years since the publication of “On the Origin of Species”, Dame Gillian Beer, the distinguished literary critic who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 5 of “The International Literary Quarterly”, will be talking about “Darwin’s Universal Impact” at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge on Monday, July 6th, 2009, from 9.30am to 12.30pm. At this event chaired by Sir David Read, Beer will be joined by Fellow-Speaker Richard Dawkins, and the Discussant Panel will consist of Elliott Sober, Jonathan Hodge and Ludmilla Jordanova.