O Serviço de Ciência da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian realiza no Auditório 2 da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Av. de Berna, 45 A) a conferência – Just Before Darwin: the question of species during the 1850’s – que terá lugar no dia 25 de Março, às 18h00, e será proferida pelo Prof. PIETRO CORSI da Universidade de Oxford, UK. Teria muito gosto em que estivesse presente nesta iniciativa. Poderá também assistir em directo através do site: http://live.fccn.pt/fcg/ e enviar as suas questões para o email darwin@gulbenkian.pt.

PIETRO CORSI
Professor Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. He is the author, amongst others, of the websites www.lamarck.net, http://www.buffon.cnrs.fr/, and http://www.hstl.crhst.cnrs.fr/i-corpus/histmap. He is an advocate of free access to the results of academic research.
Research Interests
· History of life and earth sciences
· Science and religion (18th–20th centuries)
· Science, politics and society
· History of science as a discipline
· Internet for the history of science
· History of neurosciences
· Science and society in the 19th century in Great Britain, France and Italy

Supervision Interests
The history of the philosophy of science; science and religion (17th–20th centuries); and the areas covered by research interests
Research Interests and Activities
· Eighteenth-Century Britain and Europe
· Science, Medicine, and Technology
· Modern Britain and Europe