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Book Launch of Dispelling
The Darkness

Voyage in the Malay
Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin

by John van Wyhe

Date: 15 August 2013,
Thursday, 3.30pm.

Reviews for Dispelling the
Darkness:

“The story of wallace
will never be the same again John van Wyhe has delved deeply into the
archives and brings Wallace’s travels his voyage back to life by discovering
new facts about his voyage and theories. Without downplaying the impact of
Darwin, van Wyhe’s book reveals Wallace as a great evolution thinker in his own
right, who truly deserves to be considered in content.”

Janet Browne

Aramont Professor of the
History of Science

Harvard University

” This book greatly
advances our knowledge of Wallace by correcting a plethora of myths, by
reconstructing Wallace’s travels, experiences and reflections with
authorities precision, interpretive sophistication, archival documentation and
by insightful clarification of Wallace and Darwin’s interaction, divergences
and convergences. The overall result is a major scholarly contribution to the
intellectual and social history of Wallacean science and of Darwinian science
in their original, distinctive cultural contexts”.

Jonathan Hodge

Honorary Fellow, History
and Philosophy of Science University of Leeds

About the Speakers :

John van Wyhe is one of
the world’s leading experts on Darwin, Wallace and the history of evolution. Currently
a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, he is the author or
editor of Darwin Online, Wallace Online. Darwin’s Notebook from the Voyage of
the Beagle, Darwin’s Shorter Publications, Darwin in Cambridge, Wallace’s
Letter’s from the Malay Archipelago and the Illustrated biography: Darwin.

Gregory Clancey is concurrently
an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Leader of the STS
(Science, Technology and Society) Research Cluster at the Asia Research
Institute (ARI). He formerly served NUS as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Social Sciences, and as Chairman of the General Education Steering
Committee, on which he’s still a member. A/P Clancey received his PhD in the Historical
and Social Study of Science and Technology from MIT , has been a Fulbright
Graduate Fellow at Tokyo University, and a Lars Hlerta Fellow at the Royal
Institute of Technology (KtH) in Stockholm, ‘Sweden. He has won three NUS teaching
awards.

Assoc Prof. Clancey’s
research centers on the cultural history of science & technology,
particular in modern Japan and East Asia. His book Earthquake Nation: The
Cultural Politics or Japanese Seismicity (Berkeley: U . of California Press,
2006) won the Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of
Technology in 2007, and was selected as one the “11 Best Books about Science”
for the UC Berkeley Summer Reading List, sent to all Incoming Freshmen in 2009.
He is co-editor of Major Problems in the History of America Technology (Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin, 1998) and Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science,
Technology and Medicine (Singapore: Singapore U, Press & World Scientific
2002).