Professor Glenn A Brock, Macquarie University Van Mildert College October – December 2013
Glenn A. Brock is an Associate Professor of Palaeobiology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His interdisciplinary research program aims to untangle the roots of early animal evolution to obtain a better understanding of the origins and relationships of the major animal phyla. In particular, his research focuses on detailed exploration of the Cambrian ‘Explosion’ of animal life. He is a key member of a team excavating exceptionally preserved fossils from the Emu Bay Shale on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Professor Brock has published over 100 peer review papers, abstracts and book chapters focussed on revealing the geological and palaeontological heritage of Gondwana. Recent publications on Cambrian biotas have been published in leading scientific journals such as Nature, Geology, and Proceedings of Royal Society B. In 2012 he co-authored a chapter, Living Australia which charts the evolution of life on the Australian continent over the last 4.5 billion years (Shaping a Nation - A Geology of Australia, ANU Press). He is also the co-editor of a large thematic set of research papers focussed on the Cambrian and Ordovician system called Cambro-Ordovician Studies III (2009) published as Memoir 37 of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists.
Professor Brock has made major contributions to his discipline including being sole editor (1996-2000) of Alcheringa, the Australasian journal of Palaeontology and serving as Vice-President and then President (2007-2010) of the Australasian Association of Palaeontologists. He is an active member of the International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy.
He has been a visiting Research Scholar at Uppsala University in 2008 and 2013. In 2012, he was awarded the Antarctic Service Medal of the United States of America by the US National Science Foundation for exploration and achievement under the US Antarctic Program.
During his Fellowship Professor Brock plans to collaborate with the department of Earth Sciences to complete manuscripts that will shed new light on diverse Early Cambrian – Ordovician fossil faunas from Australia and Antarctica.
Lesley Chamberlain Trevelyan College January – March 2014
Lesley Chamberlain is a writer of fiction with a preponderant interest in German and Russian thought. After a degree in Russian and German Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter she took a research degree at Oxford before joining Reuters as a correspondent in Moscow in 1978. Her freelance career began in 1986, since when she has written for all the major British newspapers, and also The LA Times and The Wall Street Journal. She currently writes occasionally for The New Statesman and The Times Literary Supplement. Most recently she published a novel, Anyone’s Game (Harbour Books 2012). Forthcoming is The Shoe Story, The Philosophers and The West.
Her career has been remarkably varied. From pioneering early work on Russian food and its cultural and historical background (The Food and Cooking of Russia, Penguin 1982), she moved on to write, with In the Communist Mirror (Faber 1990), a unique account of being a ‘Westerner’ in the Communist East. Through the 1980s and on, much of her writing, on fiction and non-fiction, and in her own fiction (In a Place Like That, Quartet 1998) reflected the ideas behind and the social reality of The Cold War.
Her interest in the Continental history of ideas revived as the Cold War ebbed. Her biographical evocation of Nietzsche in Turin (Quartet1996) led to her appearance at the Chicago Festival of Humanities. It was followed by The Secret Artist a Close Reading of Sigmund Freud (Quartet 2000). Her controversial book Motherland a Philosophical History of Russia (Atlantic 2004) and subsequently The Philosophy Steamer Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia (Atlantic 2006) established her authority in the field of Russian intellectual history.
As an IAS Fellow she will bring her combination of intellectual, historical and artistic interests to bear on ideas of contemporary relevance. The period historians call The Enlightenment has intermittently over the last two centuries and intensely in the last forty years come in for intense criticism for its vision of ‘Reason.’ Lesley Chamberlain will examine the work of some Russian and German thinkers who turned their backs on the Century of Light.
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