Religious Encounters with Evolution: Place, Politics, Polemics

Dr. David Livingstone delivers the 2014–15 Dudleian Lecture. Dr. Livingstone is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at the Queen's University, Belfast, where his work focuses on the histories of geographical knowledge, the spatiality of scientific culture, and the historical geographies of science and religion. He is the author of Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins (John Hopkins University Press 2008) and his forthcoming book is entitled Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution (Johns Hopkins University Press 2014).
00:00 Welcome by Dean David N. Hempton, Harvard Divinity School
03:32 Introduction by Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School
09:30 Dr. David Livingstone, Professor of Geography and Intellectual History, Queen's University, Belfast
1:03:41 Q&A with Dr. David Livingstone, moderated by Ahmed Ragab
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