The Annual Charles Darwin Memorial Lecture, promoted by the Friends of Shrewsbury’s Museums, takes place at the Music Hall, Shrewsbury, this Sunday, February 10th, at 2.30pm.
The speaker, Professor John Gowlett, is a director of the British Academy Centenary Project 'Lucy to Language'. He is active in researching the beginnings of human fire-use and its relationship to the development of human language, imagination and culture. His talk investigates the origins of the imagination in an evolutionary perspective of the 'mind's eye'.
Professor Gowlett is based at the University of Liverpool but lives in Shropshire.
The Memorial Lecture, a key event in Shrewsbury’s Darwin Festival, is held on the Sunday nearest to Charles Darwin’s birthday on the 12th February. Next year, 2009, is of course the Bicentenary of Darwin’s birth at The Mount in Shrewsbury.
Tickets are £5 from the Music Hall Box Office 01743 281281
Mary White, Shrewsbury Museums Manager.
Tel. 01743 361196
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