UNCW's Evolution Learning Community presents:
"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
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Teaching evolution in the classroom
The Journal of Effective Teaching, a peer-reviewed electronic journal published at UNCW and devoted to the discussion of teaching excellence in colleges and universities, has released a special issue on teaching evolution in a university setting. To access the articles and PDF version of the issue please see the following link: Special Issue - Teaching Evolution in the Classroom.
Monday, April 20, 2009
David Fastovsky to speak at UNCW
UNCW's Department of Geography and Geology & Evolution Learning Community presents:
"Catastrophic Extinction of Non-bird Dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, 65 Million Years Ago"
by Dr. David Fastovsky (University of Rhode Island)
Location: UNCW Computer Information Systems Building, Room 1008 (Campus Map)
Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 7:00 pm (reception following)
Free and open to students, faculty and public.
Dr. Fastovsky is a world renowned paleontologist considered to be a dinosaur virtuoso. His research focuses on the paleoenvironments in which dinosaurs roamed and has taken him to dig sites from Mongolia to Montana to Mexico. He is co-author of the widely acclaimed college-level textbook, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs, published in 2005.
Dr. Fastovsky will also provide a second professional talk entitled "The Day After (the Cretaceous-Tertiary asteroid): apocalypse or silent spring?", which will be held in UNCW's Deloach Hall (Room 114) on April 23, 2009 at 2:00 pm.
"Catastrophic Extinction of Non-bird Dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, 65 Million Years Ago"
by Dr. David Fastovsky (University of Rhode Island)
Location: UNCW Computer Information Systems Building, Room 1008 (Campus Map)
Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 7:00 pm (reception following)
Free and open to students, faculty and public.
Dr. Fastovsky is a world renowned paleontologist considered to be a dinosaur virtuoso. His research focuses on the paleoenvironments in which dinosaurs roamed and has taken him to dig sites from Mongolia to Montana to Mexico. He is co-author of the widely acclaimed college-level textbook, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs, published in 2005.
Dr. Fastovsky will also provide a second professional talk entitled "The Day After (the Cretaceous-Tertiary asteroid): apocalypse or silent spring?", which will be held in UNCW's Deloach Hall (Room 114) on April 23, 2009 at 2:00 pm.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Philip Kitcher to speak at UNCW
UNCW's Department of Philosophy and Religion & Evolution Learning Community presents:
"Religion after Darwin" by Dr. Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)
Burney Center, UNCW (Campus Map)
Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Free and open to students, faculty and public
Philip Kitcher, an internationally famous philosopher of science, and John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, will be speaking on the impact of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution on science and culture. He is also the author of many books on science, ethics and evolution including Abusing Science, The Advancement of Science, In Mendel's Mirror, Living with Darwin, and The Lives to Come.
This event is co-sponsored by the UNCW Evolution Learning Community, funded by Academic Affairs, and the Excellence Fund of the College of Arts and Sciences, UNCW.
"Religion after Darwin" by Dr. Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)
Burney Center, UNCW (Campus Map)
Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Free and open to students, faculty and public
Philip Kitcher, an internationally famous philosopher of science, and John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, will be speaking on the impact of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution on science and culture. He is also the author of many books on science, ethics and evolution including Abusing Science, The Advancement of Science, In Mendel's Mirror, Living with Darwin, and The Lives to Come.
This event is co-sponsored by the UNCW Evolution Learning Community, funded by Academic Affairs, and the Excellence Fund of the College of Arts and Sciences, UNCW.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Quammen to speak at UNCW
UNCW's Department of Creative Writing and Honors Scholars Program presents:
"Charles Darwin Against Himself: Caution Versus Honesty in the Life of a Reluctant Revolutionary" by David Quammen (Montana State University)
Location: Kenan Auditorium, UNCW (Campus Map)
Date and Time: Monday, March 30, 2009 at 7:30 pm
David Quammen, an award-winning author and science journalist, will deliver the talk titled "Charles Darwin Against Himself: Caution Versus Honesty in the Life of a Reluctant Revolutionary." Quammen will examine Darwin's life during the two decades after his epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution, a time during which Darwin kept his explosive idea under wraps and pondered when and how to release it to the world.
Quammen is a contributing writer for National Geographic Magazine and is the Wallace Stegner Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University. In his book, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, he focuses careful attention on Darwin, the father of modern biology and the source of an idea so radical that its implications are still only imperfectly understood: evolution by natural selection.
A graduate of Yale University and a former Rhodes Scholar, Quammen travels on assignment throughout the world to jungles, deserts and swamps, writing about the fields of biology, ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation for numerous magazines. He is perhaps best known for his award-winning column, "Natural Acts," which was published in Outside magazine from 1981 to 1995. Quammen is the author of three fiction and seven non-fiction books including Wild Thoughts from Wild Places and The Song of the Dodo.
"Charles Darwin Against Himself: Caution Versus Honesty in the Life of a Reluctant Revolutionary" by David Quammen (Montana State University)
Location: Kenan Auditorium, UNCW (Campus Map)
Date and Time: Monday, March 30, 2009 at 7:30 pm
David Quammen, an award-winning author and science journalist, will deliver the talk titled "Charles Darwin Against Himself: Caution Versus Honesty in the Life of a Reluctant Revolutionary." Quammen will examine Darwin's life during the two decades after his epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution, a time during which Darwin kept his explosive idea under wraps and pondered when and how to release it to the world.
Quammen is a contributing writer for National Geographic Magazine and is the Wallace Stegner Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University. In his book, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, he focuses careful attention on Darwin, the father of modern biology and the source of an idea so radical that its implications are still only imperfectly understood: evolution by natural selection.
A graduate of Yale University and a former Rhodes Scholar, Quammen travels on assignment throughout the world to jungles, deserts and swamps, writing about the fields of biology, ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation for numerous magazines. He is perhaps best known for his award-winning column, "Natural Acts," which was published in Outside magazine from 1981 to 1995. Quammen is the author of three fiction and seven non-fiction books including Wild Thoughts from Wild Places and The Song of the Dodo.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial performance at UNCW
UNCW's Arts in Action Performance Series presents:
LA Theatre Works in The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
Kenan Auditorium, UNCW (Campus Map)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Tickets: $6 UNCW students, $10 non-UNCW student, $18 UNCW employees and senior citizens, $22 public.
In celebration of this year's 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, L.A. Theatre Works, the country's leading radio theater company, performs The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial with a cast starring Edward Asner, John Heard and Jerry Hardin at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, February 18 in UNCW's Kenan Auditorium as part of the UNCW Arts in Action Performance Series. Based on transcripts of the famous Scopes trial and written by Peter Goodchild, the play is presented in a radio-theatre format with live sound effects. The actors will host a post-performance discussion with audience members and WHQR Public Radio will record the Wilmington production for a one-time re-broadcast. For tickets and information, call Kenan Box Office at 910-962-3500 or visit www.uncw.edu/presents.
LA Theatre Works in The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
Kenan Auditorium, UNCW (Campus Map)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Tickets: $6 UNCW students, $10 non-UNCW student, $18 UNCW employees and senior citizens, $22 public.
In celebration of this year's 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, L.A. Theatre Works, the country's leading radio theater company, performs The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial with a cast starring Edward Asner, John Heard and Jerry Hardin at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, February 18 in UNCW's Kenan Auditorium as part of the UNCW Arts in Action Performance Series. Based on transcripts of the famous Scopes trial and written by Peter Goodchild, the play is presented in a radio-theatre format with live sound effects. The actors will host a post-performance discussion with audience members and WHQR Public Radio will record the Wilmington production for a one-time re-broadcast. For tickets and information, call Kenan Box Office at 910-962-3500 or visit www.uncw.edu/presents.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Dirk Robert Johnson to speak at UNCW
UNCW's Evolution Learning Community and Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures presents:
"Nietzsche's “Anti-Darwinism”: The Origins and Development of an Antagonism" by Dr. Dirk Robert Johnson (Hampton Sydney College)
Location: Cameron Hall 105, UNCW (Campus Map)
Date and Time: February 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Dr. Johnson's scholarship explores the intellectual interaction between Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche, a late 19th Century German philosopher. Nietzsche's complex relationship to Darwin has been much explored, and readers have placed the two thinkers in conjunction from the very beginning. Nietzsche himself alluded to Darwinian interpretations of his ideas as early as 1888. In Ecce Homo (EH), Nietzsche felt compelled to disparage “scholarly cattle,” who suggested that his Übermensch, or overman, reflected Darwinian sympathies. In recent years, numerous studies have returned to the Nietzsche-Darwin axis, which indicates that they recognize that Nietzsche's connection to Darwin must reflect a significant component of his thought. Dr. Johnson's presentation will argue for the pre-eminence of Darwin for the development and articulation of Nietzsche's philosophy. But unlike current scholarship, its main thrust will be to emphasize the antagonistic character of the relationship and to show how Nietzsche's final critique against Darwin and his followers represents the key to understanding his broader (anti-)Darwinian position.
"Nietzsche's “Anti-Darwinism”: The Origins and Development of an Antagonism" by Dr. Dirk Robert Johnson (Hampton Sydney College)
Location: Cameron Hall 105, UNCW (Campus Map)
Date and Time: February 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Dr. Johnson's scholarship explores the intellectual interaction between Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche, a late 19th Century German philosopher. Nietzsche's complex relationship to Darwin has been much explored, and readers have placed the two thinkers in conjunction from the very beginning. Nietzsche himself alluded to Darwinian interpretations of his ideas as early as 1888. In Ecce Homo (EH), Nietzsche felt compelled to disparage “scholarly cattle,” who suggested that his Übermensch, or overman, reflected Darwinian sympathies. In recent years, numerous studies have returned to the Nietzsche-Darwin axis, which indicates that they recognize that Nietzsche's connection to Darwin must reflect a significant component of his thought. Dr. Johnson's presentation will argue for the pre-eminence of Darwin for the development and articulation of Nietzsche's philosophy. But unlike current scholarship, its main thrust will be to emphasize the antagonistic character of the relationship and to show how Nietzsche's final critique against Darwin and his followers represents the key to understanding his broader (anti-)Darwinian position.
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