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14th Annual Darwin Week 2019 at SIUC - events flyer HERE
 Stanley Maloy |
Monday, February 11. 7:00 pm. Public Lectures by Dr. Robert Wallace. Associate Professor, Iowa State University
Wednesday, February 13. 7:00 pm. Mini symposium: SIU faculty and students presented their research on evolution. Morris Library, John C. Guyon Auditorium. Thursday, February 14. Maurice Ogur Memorial Lecture presented by Dr. Stanley Maloy Associate Vice President for Research and Innovation, Professor of Biology, San Diego State University
Life Science III Auditorium - 11 a.m.“Genetics, Natural Selction, and the Evolution of New Infectious Diseases". |
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13th Annual Darwin Week 2018 at SIUC - events flyer HERE
 Jonathan Losos
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Monday, February 12.
6:30 pm. Photo / Art Contest, Theme:
“We’re all related: Descent with modification” SIU Student Center,
Second floor “Art Alley”- 6:30 p.m. Page HERE. Tuesday, February 13. 7:00 pm. Mini symposium: The Mystery of the Beginning of All Things” Morris Library, John C. Guyon Auditorium. Flyer HERE. Wednesday, February 14. 7:00 pm. Public Screening, Video: "Your Inner Fish". Morris Library, John C. Guyon Auditorium. Thursday, February 15. Public Lectures by Dr. Jonathan Losos, W. H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
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12th Annual Darwin Week 2017 at SIUC - events flyer HERE
 Joel Brown
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Wednesday, February 15. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Auditorium Life Science III, "David Attenborough's First Life".
Discussion led by Drs. Scott Hamilton-Brehm, Frank Anderson and
Agustín Jimenez Thursday, February 16. 4:00 pm. Auditorium Life Science III, Research Seminar: " Why Darwin would have loved game theory?" by Dr. Joel S. Brown Thursday, February 16. 7:00 pm. Auditorium Life Science III: "All Student Symposium” Guest speakers from the SIU student community. Friday, February 17. 7:30 pm. Lesar Law Building auditorium. Keynote lecture. "Through the Darwinian Looking Glass: Past, Present and Future” presented by Dr. Joel S. Brown. Reception afterwards. The flyer that announced his talk is HERE. |
11th Annual Darwin Week 2016 at SIUC - events flyer HERE
 Scott Edwards
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Tuesday,
February 9. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. John C. Guyon
auditorium, Morris Library. Public screening "The Botany of
Desire". Discussion led by Drs. Nancy Garwood, Kurt Neubig and
Sedonia Sipes Wednesday, February 10. 7:00 pm. Auditorium Life Science III: "All Student Symposium” Guest speakers from the SIU student community. Thursday, February 11. 7:30 SIUC Student Center Art Alley (2nd floor). Reception and award ceremony for the 6th annual Photo/Art Exhibit & Contest, theme: "We Are All Related: Descent With Modification” Friday, February 12. Noon. Brown Auditorium, Parkinson 124. "Using Natural Experiments and Next-Generation Sequencing to Link Genotype and Phenotype in Birds” presented by Dr. Scott V. Edwards. Friday, February 12. 7:30 pm. Lesar Law Building auditorium. Keynote lecture. "Bird Evolution – from Dinosaurs to DNA” presented by Dr. Scott V. Edwards. Reception afterwards. The flyer that announced his talk is HERE. More photos of Darwin Week 2016 HERE. |
10th Annual Darwin Week 2015 at SIUC - events flyer HERE
 Brian Switek
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Tuesday,
February 10. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Lindegren
133. Graduate Student Symposium . Graduate students from the
departments of Plant Biology and Zoology and panel discussion
afterwards. Wednesday, February 11. 5:30 pm. Reception and award ceremony for the 5th annual Photo/Art Exhibit & Contest, theme: "Prehistoric Life and Diversification” SIUC Student Center Art Alley (2nd floor). Thursday, February 12. Noon, John C. Guyon auditorium, Morris Library. “Endless tales Most Beautiful - A crash Course in Science Storytelling”. presented by Brian Switek. Thursday, February 12. 7:30 - 8:30 pm. Lesar Law Building auditorium. Keynote lecture. "Darwin's Fossils: Evolutionary Tales from Deep Time” presented by Brian Switek. Reception and book signing afterwards. The flyer that announced his talk is HERE. Thursday, February 26. 7:00 - 8:00 pm. The Science Center in University Mall. "Science in the Family: Charles Darwin at Home” presented by Richard H. Thomas, Department of Zoology More photos of Darwin Week 2015 HERE. |
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9th Annual Darwin Week 2014 at SIUC - events flyer HERE
 Anthony Gurche
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Monday,
February 10. 7:00 pm. John C. Guyon
auditorium, Morris Library. Mini-symposium entitled “All
Creatures Great & Small”. Guest speakers from SIUC
faculty and panel discussion afterwards. Flyer HERE.
PowerPoint presentations from the five speakers can be found on
the YouTube channel HERE. Tuesday, February 11. 7:00 pm. John C. Guyon auditorium, Morris Library. Presentation of PBS film "Darwin's Dangerous Idea” Wednesday, February 12. 7:30 pm, Lesar Law Building auditorium. Keynote lecture. "Shaping Humanity: Telling the Human Evolution Story with Art" presented by John Anthony Gurche. Reception and book signing afterwards. Flyer HERE. Thursday, February 13. 5:30-6:30 PM - reception and award ceremony for the 4rd annual Photo/Art Exhibit & Contest, theme: "Endless Forms Most Beautiful". SIUC Student Center Art Alley (2nd floor). For more on that event, go HERE. More photos of Darwin Week 2014 HERE. |
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8th Annual Darwin Week 2013 at SIUC - events flyer HERE
 Eugenie Scott |
Monday,
February 11. 7:00 pm. Life Science III
auditorium. Mini-symposium entitled “Evolution in Your
Backyard”. Guest speakers from SIUC faculty and panel discussion
afterwards. Flyer HERE.
Videos of these presentations can be found on YouTube HERE. Tuesday, February 12. 6:00 pm. Life Science III auditorium. Presentation of the PBS Nova documentary film Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial. Wednesday, February 13. 12 pm. John C. Guyon Auditorium of Morris Library. Dr. Eugenie Scott, Director of the National Center for Science Education, gave her first presentation Creationism du jour. At 7:30 pm Dr. Scott gave her public lecture in the SIUC Student Center Ballroom D entitled What Would Darwin Say to Today’s Creationists? Reception and book signing followed afterwards. Flyer HERE. Videos of Dr. Scott's lectures can be found on YouTube HERE. Thursday, February 14. Photo / Art Exhibit and Contest, theme: Variation Under Nature / Variation Under Domestication. Exhibit in the 2nd floor SIUC Student Center Art Alley. Reception and award ceremony Thursday, February 14 from 5:00-6:30 pm. The artwork remained on display from Feb. 11 to Mar. 3. For more on that event, go HERE. More photos of Darwin Week 2013 HERE. |
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7th Annual Darwin Week 2012 at SIUC - Events flyer HERE
 Massimo Pigliucci |
Tuesday February 7.
At 7:00 PM the film Charles Darwin and the Tree of
Life, BBC, narrated by David Attenborough, was
shown in the Life Science III Auditorium (room 1059). A scientific
panel discussion followed. Participating in the panel
were Drs. Richard Thomas (Zoology), Daniel Nickrent (Plant
Biology), Andy Anderson (Zoology), and Ulrich Reichard
(Anthropology). Wednesday February 8. Endless Forms Most Beautiful art competition. From Feb. 1-17, art pieces were on display in "Art Alley" on the second floor of the SIUC Student Center. These pieces were judged and the winners presented awards at the reception ceremony. For more on that event, go HERE. Thursday February 9. Dr. Massimo Pigliucci (Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York) presented two seminars: 1) The many meanings of 'doing theory' in biology, 12 noon, Guyon Auditorium and 2) Nonsense on Stilts, 7:30 PM, Student Center Auditorium. A reception and book signing followed the second seminar. The flyer that announced his talk is HERE. More photos of Darwin Week 2012 HERE. |
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6th Annual Darwin Week 2011 at SIUC - Events flyer HERE.
 Paul (PZ) Myers
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Monday, February 7, 7 PM
in the John C. Guyon Auditorium in Morris Library. A panel
discussion was conducted whose theme was The
Intersection of Evolution and Faith. Local religious
leaders representing several faiths participated in a moderated
discussion of the impact of Charles Darwin's ideas on their
faiths. Tuesday, February 8, 7 PM in the John C. Guyon Auditorium in Morris Library. A presentation of the controversial Darwin biopic Creation. This film failed to find a U.S. distributor when it was released. This was (as far as we know) its first public showing in southern Illinois. Wednesday, February 9, 5 PM in "Art Alley" on the second floor of the SIUC Student Center. For the past week art forms submitted to the Endless Forms Most Beautiful art competition were on display. Following judging, there was a reception that included refreshments and the awards ceremony. For more on that event, go HERE. Thursday, February 10, 7 PM in Ballroom B in the SIUC Student Center. A public lecture entitled The Evolution of Cooperation was presented by Dr. Paul (PZ) Myers, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Dr. Myers is the author of Pharyngula, one of the most widely read science blogs. Refreshments were provided after the lecture. |
5th Annual Darwin Week 2010 at SIUC
 Michael Ruse |
February 10, 7:30 PM
in the Student Center Ballroom D. Our guest speaker was Dr.
Michael Ruse, Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of
Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and
Philosophy of Science in the Department of
Philosophy, Florida State University. The title of his talk
was Can a
Darwinian be a Christian? He is the author of many books
on the relationship between science and religion. The flyer that announced his talk HERE. More photos of Darwin Day 2010 HERE. |
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4th Annual Darwin Week 2009 at SIUC
 Barbara Forrest |
Monday, February 9, 2009.
The celebration this year was particularly special because it
marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Our
guest speaker was Dr. Barbara
Forrest, Professor of Philosophy in the Department of
History and Political Science at Southeastern Louisiana
University. Dr. Forrest presented two lectures. The
first was at noon in the
Life Science III Auditorium entitled Creationism's
Trojan Horse: Intelligent Design Since the Dover Trial.
The flyer that announced her talk can be seen HERE. Dr. Forrest's second public lecture was at 7:30 PM in the Student Center Auditorium and was entitled Slam Dunk for Science and the Constitution: Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District 2005. The flyer that announced her talk HERE. |
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Dr. Forrest is coauthor with Paul R. Gross of Creationism's Trojan Horse and was a key witness for the plaintiffs in the 2005 Kitzmiller vs. Dover intelligent design trial that led to Judge Jones' comprehensive demolition of the case for teaching intelligent design in science classrooms. During the reception following the talk, Dr. Forest engaged in book signing.
In the same room as the reception were various displays of plants and fossils arranged in front of the geologic time scale - meant to demonstrate evolutionary principles and the types of living forms that have been present in the past. A large poster prepared by Dan Nickrent showed a circular ribosomal RNA phylogenetic tree with photos of representive organisms scattered around the periphery. The poster was titled Diversity of Life and had the portrait of Charles Darwin in the center as well as his words "Our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be made so, geneologies". A small version of the poster can be seen HERE.
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 7 PM in the Life Science III Auditorium. A free public showing of the evolution/creationism documentary, Flock of Dodos: The Evolution - Intelligent Design Circus. The flyer for this can be seen HERE.
Following the video, a panel discussion was lead by SIUC faculty representatives from Anthropology, Geology, Microbiology, Plant Biology and Zoology. At this discussion we were joined by a very special surprise guest!
More photos of Darwin Day 2009 HERE.
3rd Annual Darwin Week 2008 at SIUC
 Sean Carroll |
Tuesday February 12, 7:30
PM in the Student Center Auditorium. Our speaker was Dr.
Sean B. Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and
Genetics and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The title of
his talk was The
Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of
Evolution. The flyer that announced his talk HERE. More photos from Darwin Day 2008 HERE. |
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2nd Annual Darwin Week 2007 at SIUC
 Massimo Pigliucci |
Thursday February 15, 7:00
PM. Our speaker was scheduled to be Dr.
Massimo Pigliucci, Professor, Department of Ecology and
Evolution, SUNY at Stony Brook. The title of his talk was Is
Evolution a Logical Fallacy? But alas, winter weather
intervened and Massimo's trip was cancelled. He formerly maintained a blog called Rationally Speaking. The flyer that announced his talk HERE. |
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1st Annual Darwin Week 2006 at SIUC
 Tim Berra |
Wednesday February 15, 7 PM
in the Life Science III Auditorium. Our speaker for the
inaugural SIUC Darwin Day celebration in 2006 was Dr.
Tim Berra, Emeritus Professor, Department of Evolution,
Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University. The
title of his talk was Charles
Darwin: The Man 1809-1882. Dr. Berra is the author
of Evolution and the Myth of
Creationism. The flyer that announced his talk HERE. |
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