Jim Endersby (University of Sussex) - Reflecting on Death, Decay and Loss in Colonial botany

Name: Jim Endersby (University of Sussex) - Reflecting on Death, Decay and Loss in Colonial botany — Instructing Natural History
Start: 2026-11-25T03:00:00+0000
End: 2026-11-25T16:00:00+0000
Location: Online only

Wednesday 25 November 2026
03:00 16:00

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Jim Endersby is professor of the History of Science at the University of Sussex. He has written four books, the most recent being The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s imaginary futures, 1900-1935 (University of Chicago Press, 2025). He is currently doing Leverhulme-funded research on fans of Darwinism.

For the Zoom link, please email instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se

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