File 22 - Portrack Conferences

CJA-PTK-22

Portrack Conferences

File

1 folder, paper

Contents of a folder labelled 'Portrack Conferences'. Includes:
-typescript titled 'Portrack EP draft 9/1/98' and annotated 'Being + Becoming' and 'St. Rose' - file title indicated on print-out 'Steven ep draft', annotated
-typescript titled 'Evolutionary Psychology, Social Darwinism and the SSSM; Hilary Rose - Portrack draft (feedback from Pat Bateson not yet incorporated'
-printed out email from Tom Shakespeare to Charles sending his paper for Portrack and detailing travel arrangements, alongside a typescript titled 'Crippled by biology or disabled by society? Darwinism, ultra-Darwinism, and the issue of impairment', 1998
-typescript letter from Gabby Dover on University of Leicester headed paper sending papers relating to his talk 'Anti-Dawkins, alongside a typescript titled 'Human Evolution: Our Turbulent genes and Why We Are Not Chimps'; and photocopies from the Encyclopedia of Ecology & Environmental Management titled 'Molecular drive theory of evolution', from Trends in Ecology & Evolution titled 'Evolving the Improbable', and a review of Stuart A Kauffman's :the Origins of Order' from Nature titled 'On The Edge', 1998
-printed out email from Steven Rose to Charles, sending the text of a review of Steven Pinker's 'How The Mind Works', annotated,1998
-fax [faded] list of addresses, annotated
-business card for the General Manager, Byzantium, Bristol
-printed out email from Charles to Brian [Goodwin] explaining delays for arrangements with the Portrack conference including the death of Lady Keswick, and another conference he is arranging with Steven and Hilary Rose, 1998
-typescript letter on Open University headed paper from Steven Rose to Brian Godwin, commenting on his proposal for the conference, 1998
-manuscript fax [faded[ from Brian [Goodwin] to Charles enclosing his proposal, typescript titled 'Will participatory science relace [replace] Manioulative Science?'.
-printed-out email from Brian Goodwin to Charles detailing his proposals for a Portrack conference, annotated, 1998
-manuscript lists of potential participants
-manuscript letter on University of Cambridge headed paper from Nancy J Lane thanking Charles for the evening and giving personal news, 1997
-printed-out email from Nancy J Lane to Steven Rose proposing themes and dates for the conference, with manuscript covering note to Charles explaining some of the abbreviations
-photocopy from Biology and Philosophy 13, 'The Tragedy of a priori Selectionism: Dennett and Gould on Adaptationism' by Jeremy C. Ahouse, 1998
-typescript titled 'Lending a sympathetic ear to adaptationism of the road to Hell is paved with good intentions' by Jeremy C. Ahouse, annotated
-typescript titled 'Why Memes?' [by Mary Midgley], annotated
-photocopy typescript letter on University of Leicester headed paper from Gabriel Dover to Steven Rose, sending the title and abstract for his talk, and a short autobiography, 1998
-typescript fax on University of Leicester headed paper from Gaby Dover confirming travel arrangements, 1998
-photocopy of 'Development itself is the key to understanding developmental disorders' by Arnette Karmiloff-Smith with a covering note to all Portrack participants, 1998
-manuscript letter from Hilary Rose on personal headed paper, discussing the democratisation of science, 1998
-typescript titled 'Risk, Trust and Scepticism in the Age of New genetics' by Hilary Rose
-typescript titled 'Science as a Culture of No Culture' by Hilary Rose, presented at the Science and Technology Awareness in Europe: New Insights conference 1997
-cutting titled 'Why kindness is all part of being selfish', 1998
-[typescript [letter] from [Ted Benton] to Hilary and Steven [Rose] proposing his contribution to the conference and photocopy 'Biology and Social Science: why the return of the repressed should be given a (cautious) welcome'.
-printed-out email from Tim Ingold to Hilary and Steven Rose sending his mini-autobiography, 1998
-manuscript notes headed 'Pat Bateson'
-typescript titled 'Eugenics, Scientific Humanism and Social Medcicine in Britain in the Interwar and Early War Years' by Dorothy Porter
-photocopy manuscript letter on The University of Manchester headed paper from Tim Ingold sending a review and unpublished papers for other Portrack participants, alongside a photocopy of Tim Ingold's review of Barkow, Cosmides and Tooby eds 'The Adapted Mind'; typescript titled 'From the transmission of representations to the education of attention' and 'From complementarity to obviation: on dissolving the boundaries between social and biological anthropology, archeology and psychology', both by Tim Ingold, 1997
-typescript titled 'Text of a review that appears, with a few very minor changes, in the February 20 1998 issue of the Times Literary Supplement under the titled 'Is it really a computer?'' by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, reviewing Pinker's 'How the Mind works'.
-typescript titled 'Abstract: Inappropriate and appropriate uses of evolutionary theory in understanding human psychology' by Patrick Bateson
-typescript titled 'Abstract: People with impairment: crippled by biology or disabled by society?' by Tom Shakespeare
-fax announcing the Drawin seminars at the LSE, 1998
-printed-out email from Hilary Rose and Steven Rose to multiple recipients, inviting them to take part in a seminar titled 'Beyond Fundamentalist Darwinism' at Portrack, with the business card from Robert C. Berwick attached.
-interview with Peter Singer titled 'Views for the left' from the Independent on Sunday, 24 May 1998
-leaflet for Schumacher College course programme, June 1998-March 1999
-typescript titled 'Hilary Rose and Steven Rose *working title only'
-typescript fax [faded] from Arnette Karmiloff-Smith detailing travel arrangements
-typescript letter from Charles to seminar participants detailing nearby attractions and an outline of the programme,1998
-printed-out email from Steven Rose to Charles, suggesting a running order, 1998
-typescript titled 'Portrack workshop: Titles of contributions received so far', annotated
-handwritten postcard from Annabel at Weidenfeld & Nicholson giving contact details for Joel Peck
-typescript fax [faded] from Evelyn Fox Keller withdrawing from the conference due to visa issues, 1998
-manuscript notes headed 'Peter Singer: How Evol helps us to understand ethics'
-manuscript notes headed 'Steven Rose: Neurogenetic Determinism'
-cutting: review of Steven Pinker's 'How The Mind Works' from The Times 15 Jan [1998]
-cutting: 'Very grey matter' by Bryan Appleyard, The Suday Times 18 Jan 1998
-manuscript notes headed 'Lee Silver' on the back of a letter inviting Charles to a dinner after the Darwin Seminar double bill featuring Lee Silver, Mark Ridley and Steven Pinker on 22 Jan 1998
-manuscript notes headed 'Steven Pinker' on the back of a typescript titled Kurokawa's double vision: from metabolism to fractals' by Charles
-A4 flyer and programmes for 'Evolution Revolution' at the ICA Cinema, annotated on reverse, 1998
-typescript titled 'Crippled by biology or disabled by society? Darwinism, ultra-Darwinism, and the issue of impairment' by Tom Shakespeare
-typescript titled 'This review will appear in a few weeks in the Los Angeles Times, working titles 'L'homme Machine', annotated 'Bob Berwick
-cutting: review of Steven Pinker's 'How The Mind Works' from Time, 20 Oct 1997