The Two Cultures: Art and Science Today

On 7 May 1959, C P Snow delivered the Rede Lecture in Cambridge. His influential and controversial address on the subject of ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’ condemned the widening gap of knowledge and understanding between ‘literary intellectuals’ and ‘natural scientists’.

Fifty years on, The London Consortium is bringing together the Science Museum, Tate Modern, the Wellcome Trust and Birkbeck, University of London to consider whether Snow’s critique has been addressed by the increase in multidisciplinary work and the emergence of new cultural forms. Have the distinctions between and within the two cultures become further entrenched? How have the terms of the debate changed?

Join academics, artists and arts administrators at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre to discuss the current shapes of the two cultures.

This event is part of a three-day conference. For details on the conference please see here.

This event is in partnership with the Tate Modern.

This event is organised by: The Science Museum

Keynote speakers

Robert Bud, Science Museum
John Dupré, University of Exeter
George Rousseau, Oxford University

Speakers

Sharon Babaian, Canada Science and Technology Museum
Nicola Buckley, Cambridge University
Deborah Cameron, Oxford University
Rachel Chapman, University of Sharjah
Shonagh Manson, Wellcome Trust
Jeff Thomas, Open University
Nicola Triscott, Arts Catalyst
Stephen Webster, Imperial College London

This event is part of Conflict and Harmony