Evolution Learning Community: Events   

November 17, 2009
"Darwin and the Origin of Species: A Twenty-First Century Perspective" featuring three talks:

"Species Origins, 150 Years Later"
Dr. Michael McCartney, UNC Wilmington

"Adaptive Radiation in the Galapagos and Beyond"
Dr. Brian Arbogast, UNC Wilmington

"Darwin's Tree of Life in the 21st Century"
Dr. Marcel van Tuinen, UNC Wilmington

Location: UNCW DeLoach Hall (Room 114)
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm

October 23, 2009
"Stephen Jay Gould, Niles Eldredge, and the 'True' History of Punctuated Equilibira"
Dr. David Sepkoski, UNC Wilmington
Location: UNCW Morton Hall (Room 209)
Time: 3:00 pm

April 22, 2009
"Catastrophic Extinction of Non-bird Dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, 65 Million Years Ago"
Dr. David Fastovsky, University of Rhode Island
Location: Computer Information Systems Building, UNCW (Room 1008)
Time: 7:00 pm (reception following)

April 16, 2009
"Religion after Darwin"
Philip Kitcher, Columbia University
Location: UNCW Burney Center | Time: 7:30 pm

March 30, 2009
"Darwin Against Himself: Caution versus Honesty in the Life of a Reluctant Revolutionary"
David Quammen, Montana State University
Location: UNCW Kenan Auditorium | Time: 7:30 pm
Q&A session with Mr. Quammen: UNCW Kenan Hall 1111 at 3:30 pm

March 19-21, 2009
"Darwin's Legacy: Evolution's Impact on Science and Culture," a student conference
Location: Warwick Center, UNCW

February 18, 2009
LA Theatre Works in The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial.
Location: Kenan Auditorium, UNCW | Time: 8:00 pm
Tickets and information: http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/presents/AIA.htm

February 9, 2009
"Nietzsche's “Anti-Darwinism”: The Origins and Development of an Antagonism"
Dirk Robert Johnson, Hampden-Sydney College
Location: Cameron Hall 105 | Time: 3:30 pm

January 29, 2009
"Why Evolution Is Taught in North Carolina Schools"
Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education
Location: UNCW Burney Center | Time: 7:30 pm

November 6, 2008
Dramatization: Tina Gianquitto (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado)
Location: UNCW Randall Library Auditorium

November 5, 2008
"Dangerous Liaisons: Darwin's Carnivorous Plants and the Language of Flowers"
Tina Gianquitto, Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Location: UNCW Fisher Student Center | Time: 7:30 pm

Past Events