12th November 2019, 10:30 to 17:30, Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study
This one-day workshop brings together established and emerging scholars to investigate how the life sciences impacted the social and political thought and action of the German left in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Organisers: Cat Moir (Sydney/IMLR) and Johan Siebers (IMLR); supported by Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study.
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