“Good Mothers” and “King Tyrants” in the Mesozoic: An Anthropology of Dinosaur Science and Spectacle is the title of the annual HG Wells Lecture.

The lecture will be given by Dr Brian Noble, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University on Wednesday 1 March  in the Templeman Library at Canterbury campus.

Drawing on his recent book, Articulating Dinosaurs: A Political Anthropology, Dr Noble will discuss how dinosaurs have come to make a difference to us as humans, and us to them.

Dr Noble combines his background in paleontology and museum exhibit design, with expertise in ethnographic research and critical literary, film, and cultural studies. He brings to bear this interdisciplinary in tracing how fossils and spectacles collide in the resurrecting of two particular dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus rex and Maiasaura peeblesorum – and with that, details how these supposedly bygone creatures express the hopes and fears of our past and present moments.

The lecture, hosted by the University’s Centre for the History of the Sciences and the Kent Animal Humanities Network, takes place from 17.15-18.45 will be followed by a reception.
Entry is free and open to all.