In the 11th episode of Season 4, we are excited to be featuring Professor Bernard Lightman, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at York University, in Toronto, Canada, who is best known for his work on the Cultural History of Victorian Science and Religion. In this episode he talks to our host Deborah Cohen about some of the highlights of his career and his current international correspondence project digitizing the letters of the Irish physicist, John Tyndall.

(This episode was recorded in September 2024)

This podcast is 36 minutes and 35 seconds long.

The keywords associated with this episode are:

• history of science and religion
• Darwinian science
• John Tyndall
• history of ideas
• history and philosophy of science

For more on Prof. Lightman’s research please check out his INSBS profile and his institutional profile. Some of his most recent publications include Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions
National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920 co-edited with INSBS member Dr Sarah Qidwai, and Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis, co-edited with another INSBS member Dr Efram Sera-Shriar.