Events: Full Listing
ARGENTINA:
Argentina Skeptics
Buenos Aires,
ARGENTINA
Contact: Juan De
Gennaro
Event Title: “The Facts of Evolution”
Date:
Saturday, February 8, 2003, 16:00pm
Location: Beckett Bar, El
Salvador 4960, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Activties: General
Audience Workshop: (1) Introduction: “What Is Evolution?”, (2)
Creationist Arguments, (3) The Facts of Evolution, (4) Exhibit
Material and Dialogue, (5) Tribute to Charles Darwin.
Additional
Comments: Cost: Free and open to the public.
AUSTRALIA:
Humanist Association of New South
Wales
Contact: Victor Bien
Date: 9:30 am -
3:30 pm 12 February 2003
Location: Australian Museum Theatrette,
Corner College & William Sts
Activities: Dr Alex Ritchie,
Geologist - Australian Museum: Typical geological evidence for
evolution.
Dr Peter Slezak, History & Philosophy of Science
- UNSW: What's wrong with the idea of creation. Problems and
opportunities with the theory of evolution.
Coffee & tea
break
Questions and discussion
Lunch (students may go)
Workshops & plenary session
Darwinists Down Under
Contact: John
Stear, Tel: (07) 5577 4784
Flight co-ordinator John Edge,
(07) 5536 6502
Event: Darwin's Birthday Flyover
Date:
Approximately 10am (Queensland) time on 12 February
Location:
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Activities: Advertisement
announcing flyover will appear in Gold Coast Bulletin on 11
February.
On the morning of Wednesday 12 February 2003 at
approximately 10am Queensland time, a single engine aircraft will
take-off from Murwillumbah airstrip towing a banner. As the aircraft
gathers height and speed the banner will unfurl to reveal the
message:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARWIN - EVOLUTION RULES
The aircraft
will fly east to the coast, then turn north travelling along the
coast to Paradise Point, returning to Murwillumbah flying in a
corridor bounded by the Gold Coast Highway and the Expressway. The
aircraft will be in the air for two hours. A diversion to the route
will occur when the aircraft performs a fly-over in the sky above
the small primary school at Ingleside (inland from Burleigh
Heads).
At the time of the fly-over a local resident and parent
Brad Solomon will present the children of the Ingleside School with
a set of books on science. The books are a Darwin's Day gift
presentation from The Humanist Society of Queensland.
The
initiative is part of a worldwide birthday celebration drawing
attention to the outstanding intellectual achievement of Charles
Darwin in providing a factual account of how life on planet Earth
began.
The Gold Coast celebration has been organised by the
Darwinists Down Under, the group members are from the ranks of the
Gold Coast Skeptics and the Humanist Society of Queensland.
BRAZIL:
The
Round Earth Society - Sociedade Da Terra Redonda
Sao
Paulo
Contact:Leo Vines
Location: Sao
Paulo
Activities: Lectures on evolution and creationism; essay
contest for students; videos and much more
CANADA:
Humanist Association of Ottawa
Ontario
Contact: Sheila Ayala
Date:
Friday 21 February 2003--7:30 pm
Location: Jean Talon
Building/Stats Can on Holland, in the conference
room.
Activities: Darwin’s Theory: from Victorian pigeons to
fluorescent mice Douglas A. Gray, Ph.D.
Dr Gray is a Senior
Scientist at the Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, Ottawa Regional
Cancer Centre.
The Mayor of the City of Ottawa/Canada will sign a
proclamation recognizing 12th of February as Darwin Day.
Victoria Secular Humanist Association
British
Columbia
Contact: Andy Mulcahy, tel: 250-389-6770
Event: A Historian looks at: "Inherit the Wind"
Date: Sunday
February 16th
Location: 850 Caledonia (police station) Victoria
B.C. Canada
Activities: Dr. J Skinner will discuss, from a
historian's point of view, the political and other machinations
involved about the Scope trial, coupled with a showing of "Inherit
the Wind"
British Columbia
Humanist Association
British Columbia
Contact: Wilson
Dillon
Date: February 14
Activities: Speaker on Evolution
& Cake
Kitchener Waterloo Cambridge Guelph
Humanists
Ontario, CANADA
Contact: John Draak
Event: Birthday
cake and coffee will be served, Dr. Chris DiCarlo will be speaking
on Charles Darwin's scientific achievements
Date: February
12
Location: University of Guelph
ENGLAND:
Shrewsbury, England - the Birthplace of Charles
Darwin
Contact: Jon King, Tel: 011 44 1743
248484
Event: Darwin Festival 2003 - Week-Long
Celebration
Date: 9th - 15th February 2003
Location:
Throughout Shrewsbury, UK
Schedule of Events:
"Darwin on
Tierra Del Fuego" Exhibition
Venue: Shrewsbury Library
Dates:
Feb. 8 through 16
Staged by Andrew Allott Head of Biology at
Shrewsbury School
A talk by Professor Sir Paul Nurse, FRSA.
Interim Chief Executive Cancer Research UK.
Winner Nobel
Prize for Medicine 2001
Venue: The Music Hall, The Square,
Shrewsbury
Date: Sunday, Feb. 9, 2.30pm
Tickets: tel: 01743
281281
Origin of the Business Species - Are entrepreneurs
born or made?
A business breakfast seminar with Andrew
Davidson
Internationally renowned author and journalist with The
Financial Times
Venue: Bar Med, Lower Claremont Street,
Shrewsbury
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7.30am
Tickets: £4.50 tel:
01743 246988
Welcoming the "Disguised Friend" - Darwinism
and Belief
A Lecture by Rev. Dr Arthur Peacocke - Canon of
Christchurch Oxford
Winner of the 2001 Templeton Prize for
Science and Religion
Venue: St Chad's Church Quarry Bank,
Shrewsbury
Date: Thursday, Feb. 13, 7:30pm
The
Misrepresentation of Captain Fitzroy
A talk by Darwin Biographer
Cyril Aydon
Venue: Ashton Theatre, Shrewsbury School, Ashton
Road, Kingsland, Shrewsbury
Date: Saturday, Feb. 15,
7:30pm
The month of FEBRUARY: "The Incredible Journey"
The
exciting story behind the county's hills as Shropshire makes its way
from 60 degrees south of the equator to its present
location.
Using the photography of Gordon Dickins and the
expertise of geologist Dr. Peter Toghill and Shropshire Wildlife
Trust Geology Officer Liz Etheridge
Venue: The Photographic
Gallery, The Music Hall, Shrewsbury.
The Friends of
Shrewsbury Museums
Shrewsbury
Contact: Tickets from The
Music Hall Box Office; 01743 - 281281
Shrewsbury Museums Service:
museums@shrewsbury.gov.uk
Peter D. A.
Boyd
Darwin Country Learning Web
Site
Event Title: The Annual Charles Darwin Memorial
Lecture
Date: Sunday February 9th 2003, 2.30pm
Location: The
Music Hall, The Square, Shrewsbury, UK
Activities: 'Charles
Darwin's Legacy and Cancer' - a talk by Professor Sir Paul Nurse,
FRSA; Interim Chief Executive, Cancer Research UK; winner of Nobel
Prize for Medicine, 2001
Darwin Center - Cambridge University - Darwin
College
Event: Eighteenth Annual Darwin College Lecture
Series - DNA: Changing Science and Society
Contact: Website
Location:
The Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
Date: Fridays
at 5.30 p.m. January 17 - March 7
Darwin Center
- Natural History Museum
London
Contact: Debbie Chapman on
020 7942 5880
E-mail: mailto:D.Chapman@nhm.ac.uk
Wednesday
12 February at 14.30
Darwin in Caricature
This event looks at
the wide range of satirical cartoons produced in Britain and America
after Darwin's Origin of Species was published in 1859. It is
illustrated with images that are sometimes cruel, sometimes
affectionate, but always to the point. Some feature gorillas and, in
later years, Darwin himself as the ape - and came to represent for
Victorians some of the crucial issues about human origins generated
by Darwin's work. The discussion will be led by Janet Browne,
professor of the history of biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for
the History of Medicine, University College London. After the event,
Janet will be signing copies of her recent Darwin biography, The
Power of Place.
This event forms part of the Spring Programme of
Darwin Centre Live events - a varied daily programme of informal
free events where you can meet curators and researchers to find out
about their work, recent scientific discoveries and the Museum's
vast collections. These events take place at 11.30 and 14.30 in the
Museum's new Darwin Centre. Visit www.nhm.ac.uk/darwincentre for
full listings.
Also on Darwin Day:
See Darwin
specimens
Phase One of the Darwin Centre, named in honour of
Charles Darwin, opened in September 2002 at the Natural History
Museum and gives visitors a unique insight into the scientific
research currently underway at the Museum. As well as the daily
programme of events, Darwin Centre Explore tours leave every half an
hour, taking visitors behind the scenes of our collections
storerooms where they can view some of the 22 million wet-preserved
specimens housed within the centre. Since opening, some 120,000
visitors have been to the Darwin Centre and from 12 February
visitors who take a Darwin Centre Explore Tour will have the
opportunity to see some of the specimens collected by Darwin on his
1831 Beagle voyage.
Meet Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
will be wandering through the galleries of the Museum on his
birthday - sharing his radical scientific ideas with the visitors he
meets. Charles Darwin is one of the Museum's gallery characters that
appear in the Museum regularly. Visitors will be able to spot
Charles Darwin in and around the Central Hall between 11.30 and
15.30.
British Humanist
Association
London
Contact: Marilyn Mason
Phone
British Humanist Association on 020 7430 0908 for details.
Event
Title: What's Wrong with Creationism?
Location: Conway Hall, Red
Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Date: February 12th 2003, at 6.30 pm
(doors open at 6.00)
Activities: Scientist Robin Dunbar and
philosopher Stephen Law will talk on creationism, and answer
questions. The discussion will be chaired by writer and journalist
Andrew Brown.
The event will also celebrate Charles Darwin’s
birthday with the launch of a new UK web-based comprehensive
resource for the general public, contesting creationist claims.
Gay and Lesbian Humanist
Association
London
Contact: Derek Lennard
Tel:
020-7704-1612
Event Title: Darwin and Fundamentalism
Location:
The Library, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1
Date:
7.30pm Friday 14th February 2003
Activities: Talk by Natural
History Museum Lecturer, Mike Howgate
Skeptics in the
Pub
London
Contact: Nick Pullar
Event Title:
Darwin and Fundamentalism
Location: The Old Kings Head, Kings
Head Yard, London Bridge, London SE1 1NA br> Comments: Britain's
only regular skeptics event. Held once a month (usually on the third
Wednesday) starting at 7.30pm.
Founded in 1999 by Scott Campbell
and currently run by Nick Pullar, for all those interested in and/or
skeptical of the paranormal, alternative medicine, psychic powers,
pseudo-science, UFOs, alien abductions, creationism, Fortean
phenomena, cult religions, water-divining, lost civilizations etc.
Non-skeptics are welcome.
A different guest speaker is invited
each month, to talk on a topic of interest. The talk is followed by
an informal discussion in a relaxed and friendly pub atmosphere.
Turn up at any time during the evening. Real ales and food are
available. The entry fee is £2 to cover guest speaker's travelling
expenses and sundries.
INDIA
Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of
Science
New Delhi, India
Event: The World Science Festival
on 'What is Life?'
Date: February 12, 2003 Opening
Event
Location: Hotel Ashok, New Delhi, India
Contact: Prof. Ranjit
Nair, Director
Activities: Events planned throughout the year
- this unique World Science Festival will combine scientific
symposia with public lectures, exhibitions and more, across a score
of cities in India. The Golden Jubilee of the Double Helix Symposium
begins on February 12, 2003.
IRELAND
Association of Irish Humanists
Dublin,
IRELAND
Event: Darwin In His Time
Date: February 12,
8pm
Location: The Audio Visual Theatre, National Museum of
Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7,
Ireland
Contact: AIH
Event Web: www.irish-humanists.org/Events%20Sub/darwin.html
Activities:
On February 12th the Association of Irish Humanists (AIH), with the
kind assistance of the Natural History Division of the National
Museum of Ireland, present a lecture "Darwin In His Time" by Justin
Keating -- President of the AIH, emeritus professor of veterinary
medicine, broadcaster, writer, and former Government Minister.
Belfast Humanist
Group
Belfast, NORTHERN IRELAND
Event: Darwin's
Birthday Quiz
Date: Monday 3 March, 8.00 pm
Location: Senior
Common Room, 1 College Gardens, Belfast
Contact: Les
Reid, Tel: UK 02890867239, Web: http://www.reids24.freeserve.co.uk/
Activities:
Quiz with special questions on Darwin and evolution
NEPAL:
Humanist Association of Nepal
(HUMAN)
Kathmandu
Contact: Ganga Prasad
Subedi
NEW ZEALAND:
New Zealand Association of Rationalists &
Humanists
Contact: Andrew Geard
E-mail: Andrew@nzarh.org.nz
Tel:
(64-9) 373 5131
Date: Wednesday 12 February 2003
6:00pm
Location: Rationalist House, 64 Symonds Street, Auckland,
NZ
Activities: Part one of the highly acclaimed seven-part PBS
documentary series Evolution.
As always there will be plenty of
opportunity for discussion afterwards. The series will continue on
subsequent Wednesday evenings.
New Zealand
Skeptics
Christchurch
Contact: E-Mail
Date: Wednesday 12
February 8pm
Location: C3 lecture theatre, University of
Canterbury
Activities: Celebrations kick off with a light-hearted
Darwin Quiz, with prizes for the most and least knowledgeable
entry.
Zoologist Jim Briski will present a lecture on sperm
competition in birds (and possibly other animals).
There will be
Darwin Day material available -- postcards, ribbons, bumper stickers
-- and the new Darwin Day book, which features a number of New
Zealand contributions.
Tea, coffee and Darwin birthday cake to
follow.
PERU:
Center for Inquiry - Peru
Organized by Center
for Inquiry-Perú and the Peruvian Journal of Applied
Philosophy
Contact: Manuel A. Paz y Miño
Date:
Saturday February 15, hour: 7-9.30 pm
Location: ADUNI´s Cultural
Centre, Av. Bolivia 537, Breña, Lima.
Activities: Speakers Lic.
Carlos Alvarado (Philosopher): "The Darwinian Revolution" and Lic.
Raimundo Casas (Linguist): "The Scientificity of the Theory of
Evolution".
More (Spanish) info in: http://www.geocities.com/rpfa/conf.html
POLAND:
Polish
Freethinkers Society
Contact: Krzysztof Mroz
SCOTLAND:
Glasgow University
Admission is free
but tickets will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis To
obtain tickets please e-mail: P_Skett@bio.gla.ac.uk
With
the following information: Name of school; Name of accompanying
teacher; Number of pupils;
Alternatively this information may be
posted to: Dr Paul Skett West Medical Building University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Location: Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre, The
University of Glasgow
Date: 12 February 2003
7:30pm
Activities:
EVOLUTION: THEORY OR FACT?
WHO WAS
CHARLES DARWIN AND WHAT WAS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT HIS IDEAS?
All
senior pupils and staff are invited to a meeting at Glasgow
University to discuss these questions. Opening with an introduction
to Darwin’s theory of evolution, which will assume no previous
knowledge of the subject, the event will go on to discuss some of
the livelier issues thrown up by evolutionary theory and its
modern-day ramifications. A talk will also be given on the
government-funded Darwin Initiative and the effort to conserve gene
pools, in the face of a growing endangered species list.
National Museums of
Scotland
Edinburgh
Contact: Dr Louise Allcock
SPAIN:
Universidade da Coruna
Contact: Carlos
A. Pita Abad
PBS: Our
Genes, Our Choices
To air in January and February
2003
Check Local Listings
ALABAMA,
USA:
The Capitol
School
Teacher: Valesca Lopez Dwyer
Evolution Poetry Extempore
Contact: David C.
Kopaska-Merkel, 205-553-2284
Date: Jan. 22 through Feb. 12,
2003
Location: Online: http://www.speculations.com/
Activities: Open
forum for evolution poetry: Anyone welcome to submit original
poetry, or copyrighted poetry if permission to reproduce the work
has been obtained.
ALASKA,
USA:
Humanists of
Alaska
Contact: Debbie Bock, tel: (907)
344-8335
Date: Saturday Feb 15th 6-9 pm
Location: Anchorage
Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship
Activities: A potluck supper
followed by a lecture: "Healthy Families: An Evolutionary
Perspective" by M.T. Erickson, M.D., followed by birthday
cake.
ARIZONA,
USA:
Humanist Society
of Greater Phoenix
Contact: Susan Sackett
CALIFORNIA,
USA:
California Academy of
Sciences
Event: Darwin's Road Show
Date:
Wednesday, February 5 5:30-7:30 PM
Location: California Academy
of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Description: Do you
have a butterfly collection you don't know how to identify? Do you
wonder about the evolutionary significance of the bright blue
feather you found in your backyard? Bring us your leaves, worms,
bugs, rocks, feathers and baskets. Our experts will identify them.
Academy scientists from the fields of Anthropology, Aquatic Biology,
Botany, Entomology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Zoology,
Geology, Ornithology and Mammalogy will be on-hand to tell you what
it is, where it comes from and why it’s important.
Cost: Free
and open to the public - this will be held on the Academy's Free
Day.
Questions? Email: info@calacademy.org
Event:
Natural Selection
Date: Friday, February 7 8PM-midnight
Description: Natural Selection celebrates Darwin's 194th
Birthday with revelry and romance. Headliner Lavay Smith and Her Red
Hot Skillet Lickers will entertain with classic jazz and funky
blues. Later, visitors may "smooch under the stars" during a special
planetarium show. Those who prefer to pucker up among the fishes may
wander through the aquarium. To top it all off, a sumptuous dessert
buffet and hosted wine and beer will be served. Join us for Darwin's
birthday: a natural selection for a quirky, romantic evening. 21 and
over please
Cost: $40 in advance/ $55 at the door
Tickets
available at http://www.calacademy.org/events/darwin/
Questions? Email: info@calacademy.org
Scientific Gospel Productions,
LLC
Event: 194th Annual Commemeration of Charles Darwin's
Birthday in Concert With Dr. Stephen Baird and the Opossums of Truth
Contact: Carol Davidson Baird,
858-481-0765
Website
Information
Location: Schulman Auditorium at the Dove
Library, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad, CA Date: February 8, 2003 at 7
p.m.
Activities: The band will celebrate scientific concepts in
song with humor and satire, with an emphasis on the idea that
EVOLUTION IS THE WAY. Classical selections from "Hallelujah!
Evolution" and "Aint' Gonna Be No Judgment Day" will be performed
along with new discoveries from Dr. Baird's continuing research into
the heretofor unknown but emerging liturgy of Scientific Gospel.
Tickets $15 adults, $10 children and students with I.D. Reservations
online or by phone.
Bay Area Communities of Reason (BACOR) in
conjunction with the National Center for Science Education
Event:
Evolutionpalooza 2003
Contact:
Name: Henda Lea / David
Fitzgerald
E-Mail: david.g.fitzgerald@marsh.com
Phone:
(Henda) (510) 728-9253
Date: Sunday, February 16th, starting at 2
p.m.
Location: Rockridge Branch - Oakland Public Library, 5366
College Ave., Oakland CA
Activities: Exhibits, Games, Displays,
Videos, and more Refreshments and Birthday Cake, too!
Additional
Comments: Come celebrate Darwin's Birthday in the Bay Area - Fun,
education & food!
University of
California - Berkeley
Organizers: Students for a Non-Religious
Ethos (SANE)
Contact: Shaina Potts, President,
(510)USE-SANE
Date: Weds. Feb. 12th 7:00 p.m.
Location: 122
Wheeler UC Berkeley
Features: Dr.Alan D. Gishlick (from the Nat'l
Center for Science Education) speaking on "Tapestry of Life: How
Darwin changed the way we view the natural world"
"Evolutionary!"
the exciting audience participation game
Cake &
refreshments
Center for Inquiry -
West
Contact: Jim Underdown
CSUS Anthopology Department
Unitarian
Universalists Forum
Humanist Association of Greater Sacramento
Area (HAGSA)
Atheists and Other Freethinkers (AOF)
Sacramento
Skeptics
Sacramento Organization for Rational Thinking (SORT)
Contact: Anna Andrews: (916) 448-9373
Kenneth E.
Nahigian: appalonius@netzero.net
Event
Title: Sacramento Darwin Day Festival
Date: Feb 15, 2003,
Saturday, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Hart Community Center,
915 27th Street, Sacramento, California
Activities: Educational
and humanist organizations in the Sacramento area have joined hands
to bring you the Sixth Annual Darwin Day Festival, a celebration of
science, knowledge and humanity.
Keystone speaker will be Dr.
Martina Newell-McGloughlin, celebrated international authority on
biotechnology and its social implications. Her topic will be
Darwinism in the Age of Bio/Nano-Technology.
A question and
answer period will follow her presentation, with a festive
celebration, refreshments, and of course, birthday cake. Literature
and souvenirs will be available at vendor tables.
Tickets: $6 in
advance, $8 at the door. Students with ID, half price!
To
purchase, make check out to "HAGSA" (Humanist Association of the
Greater Sacramento Area) and mail to: Anna Andrews, Darwin Day 2003,
2265 10th Avenue, Sacramento, 95818. University of California -
Irvine
Organizers: Students for Science and
Skepticism
Contact: sss@uci.edu
Date:
TBA
Activities: TBA
Palo Alto
Humanist Community
Contact: Arthur Jackson
Event:
Past, Present, and Future of The Darwin Day Program
Date:
Sunday, 9 Feb., 11 am - 12 noon
Location: Mitchell Park Community
Center, Palo Alto (On Middlefield between Charleston &
Meadow)
Activities: Presenters: Robert J. Stephens & Arthur
Jackson
Discussion of the early origins of Darwin Day in the
Humanist Community in 1994-95.
Examination of the current format
as an International Celebration of Science and Humanity as well as a
year-round educational website.
With focus on 12 February,
Darwin's Birthday - having 2009, Darwin's 200th birthday as a global
celebration.
Various Darwin Day informational materials will be
presented including Evolution Awareness ribbons, Darwin Day
information cards suitable for sending to friends, information about
the Darwin Day website: www.darwinday.org. Also, on 26 Jan and 2 Feb
-- as well as on 9 Feb -- copies of Ernst Mayr's article, "Darwin's
Influence on Modern Thought," from the July 2000 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
will be provided to interested persons to help them get in the
spirit of the occasion.
COLORADO,
USA:
University of Northern
Colorado
Contact: Dr. Angela C.
Morrow
Activities: EDEL 460 - Methods in Elementary Science
Education will be discussing Darwin and his contributions to science
as well as how to approach the subject with elementary
students.
East Middle
School
Teacher: Michael Warner
Freethinkers of Colorado Springs
Contact: Steven
Mahone
WASHINGTON DC,
USA:
Washington Area Secular
Humanists
Contact: Steven F.
Goldberg
FLORIDA,
USA:
Marie Selby Botanical
Gardens
Event: Fedder Science Lecture Series
Contact: H. Bruce
Rinker, Director of Research/Conservation, 941-955-7553 ext.
15
Date: Tuesday, 11 February 2003, 7:00 pm
Location: Great
Room, Activities Center, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota,
Florida
Activities: Public Lecture: Connie Barlow: Botanical
Ghost Stories
Noted author and a gifted spokesperson for the "The
Great Story" of Evolution, Connie Barlow will share the ways in
which an understanding of evolutionary and ecological sciences can
enhance humanity's communion with the natural world.
"Meet the
Scientist" Reception
Readings from Darwin's Works
Unitarian Universalist Church of
Jacksonville
Contact: John Young
Date: Feb
8, 2003
Location: Unitarian Universalist Church of
Jacksonville
Activities: Sermon on Darwin and Fundamentalism
Center for Inquiry - Florida
Contact: Jan
Eisler
Date: Feb 7-9, 2003
Location: TBA
Activities:
Premiere Conference for CFI-Florida
Buchholz High School
Teacher: Scott C.
Flamand
Activities: Student talks about evolution & Darwin,
Birthday cakes with evolution themes, Artwork & show the movie
"Inherit the Wind" Atheist &
Agnostic Student Association, University of Florida
Event:
Darwin Day Celebration
Contact: Ben Galecki, Tel: (352)
336-8288
Date: Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003 @ 7pm
Location: Room
2353 Turlington
Activities: Lecture: What the fossil record says
about evolution: 3.5 billion years of biological history by
Paleontologist Dr. Penny Higgins
Discussion of the impact Darwin
has had on modern Science
GEORGIA,
USA:
Savannah State
University
Organizers: Biology
Undergraduate Honor Society
Contact: Gene Mesco, Ph.D.
Atlanta Freethought Center
Contact: Ray
Knisley, 770-439-0273
Event: Darwin Day celebration -
Demonstration/Protest
Location: Marietta Square
Date:
Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Activities:
Demonstration against The Cobb County Board of Education's approval
of the teaching of creationism beside evolution in the public
schools.
Dinner
Gathering
Savannah, Georgia
Activity: The Levins will
be entertaining at their home in Savannah, in celebration of Darwin
Day.
IDAHO,
USA:
Darwin Day
Celebration
Contact: Gary L. Bennett
Location:
Rumors Coffee Bar in Nampa (16462 Franklin Boulevard;
465-7891)
Date: 12 February from 2 PM to 4 PM
Humanists
of Idaho
Contact: humanist@email.com
ILLINOIS,
USA:
Augustana
College
Contact: Steve Hager and Brad
Cosentino
Event: 2nd Annual Darwin Day
Celebration
Organizers: Augustana
College Darwin Club
Date: February 11 at 11:00
A.M.
Location: New Science Building Room 102
Activities:
Speaker Robert Pennock
Southwestern
Illinois College
Contact: Leo Welch, 618 235 2700
x4199
Event: Darwin Day 2003
Date: February 14,
2003
Location: Southwestern Illinois College, 2500 Carlyle Ave.,
Belleville Illinois 62221
Activities:
The Geology of Illinois
by Stan Hatfield
The Evolution and Biogeography of Eastern North
American Freshwater Fishes by Rick Maden
The Darwin Awards by
Alan Friedman
video presentations, library book display, exhibit
of fossil hominids, a Darwin happy birthday cake
Rational Examination Association of Lincoln Land
(REALL)
Web Site: REALL.org Contact: Jim
Rosenthal Event: Tenth Anniversary & Darwin Recognition Day
Party
Date: February 11, 2003, 6-10pm
Location: Just Off Route
66 Diner, 737 East Cook, Springfield, Illinois
Activities: Find
out about REALL and Charles Darwin
Newsletters, Videos,
Memorabilia
Complimentary Finger Food, Snacks, Soft
Drinks
Sample our Darwin Day Primordial Soup: "It’s nutritious,
It’s delicious, It’s educational, It’s primordial"
Anniversary
Cake, Door Prizes
Secular Humanist
Society of Chicago
Contact: Adam Walker
312-226-0420
Event: A Visit From Charles Darwin!
Date: Sunday,
February 16, 2003, 10 a.m. to noon
Location: Room 613, the Circle
Campus Center (CCC) (student union), Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
(UIC), 750 S. Halsted Ave., Chicago, IL
Activities: A biology
professor, John Wagner, takes on the persona and garb of Charles
Darwin. His lecture and discussion will center on Darwin's theory on
the origin of species and on Darwin's life as a scientist.
Humanists of West Suburban
Chicagoland
Contact: Jack Sechrest Date: February 5,
2003
Location: TBA
Activities: Potluck dinner at 6:30
PM,
Darwin Day program starting at 7:30 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church
Contact:
Rev. Dave
Weissbard
Date: 2/09/03 at 10:00 am
Location: 4848 Turner
St, Rockford, IL 61107
Activities: Sunday Service
INDIANA,
USA:
Indiana University Northwest
Sponsors: IUN
Anthropology Club
Contact: Bob Mucci
Tel:
219-980-6607
Date: Wed Feb 12, 2003, 1 to 3 pm
Location: IUN
Library Conference Center AB, 134 west 35th Ave, Gary IN
Activities: "IUN is featuring several of our own faculty;
speakers will each talk for 30 minutes, with a few minutes for
questions between talks.
Schedule: (subject to revision) Speakers
are Kristin Huysken, Kathy Forgey, Mark Hoyert, and Christine
Malcom, discussing evolutionary topics relating to their own
research in the fields of geology, psychology, genetics, and
bioarchaeology & forensics. We will be selling the Darwin fish
emblems and Anthro Club and Darwin T-shirts. Updates will be posted
on the event web site."
South Newton High
School
Teacher: Tony J. Hiatt
IOWA, USA:
Coe
College
Contact: Floyd Sandford
Event: Darwin
Day Birthday Bash
Date: February 12, 4pm
Location: Sinclair
Auditorium on the Coe Campus
Activities: Festivities begain at 4
pm in Sinclair Auditorium on the Coe Campus Professor of Biology
Floyd Sandford will present a 20-minute excerpt of his one-man play
"Darwin Remembers". In the play Darwin reflects on the aftermath of
the publication of his most famous book "The Origin of Species",
published in 1859, and the historic debate at Oxford in 1860 between
the famous evolutionary biology Thomas Huxley and the Bishop Samuel
Wilberforce. In the play excerpt Sandford will portray all three
characters.
Following Sandford's performance, members of the
Biology Club will informally discuss what Charles Darwin means to
them as biology majors, and will respond to questions from the
audience.
Then, everyone is invited to a reception following,
featuring refreshments and a birthday cake to commemorate the
birthday of Charles Darwin, a gentle, modest human being, and one of
the worlds's most important biologists.
Iowa Community Science Initiative
Contact: Rob
Beeston
KANSAS,
USA:
Kansas Wesleyan
University
Organizers: Biology Club
Contact: Arthur K.
Neuburger
Activities: The Biology Club is sponsoring a
biological limerick contest and arranging a display case to
celebrate Darwin Day.
University of
Kansas
Organizers: Society of Open-Minded Atheists and
Agnostics
Contact: Keiv Spare
Date: Feb 12, 2003,
7:00 pm
Location: Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union, University
of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Activities: Lecture by Leonard
Krishtalka, curator of the Natural History Museum at the University
of Kansas.
Kansas Citizens For Science
Contact: Liz
Craig
KENTUCKY,
USA:
Abraham Bruno Charles
Darwin (ABCD)
- Darwin's English Mastiff
Activity: 3rd
Birthday Celebration for ABCD & 194th for Charles
Darwin
LOUISIANA,
USA:
Centenary College of
LA
Sponsors: The Biology Department and the Department of
Religious Studies
Contact: Dr. Beth E.
Leuck
University of New
Orleans
Contact: David L. Schultz
University of Louisiana at
Monroe
Contact: Sandra Davis
New Orleans Secular Humanist
Association
Contact: David L. Schultz
MARYLAND,
USA:
Baltimore Secular
Humanists
Contact: W. C. Reasy
Date:
Sunday, February 9, at 1:30pm
Location: Randallstown Library,
Liberty Road, Randallstown, Maryland
Activities: A lecture and
discussion by Greg Paul, "Can theists and non-theists cooperate to
teach evolution?"
MASSACHUSETTS,
USA:
Tufts
University
Contact: Prof. Samuel P. Kounaves
Boston University Photonics
Center
Contact: The Disproof Atheism
Society
Wahconah Regional High School
Teacher: Linda M.
Allen
First Parish Church
(UU)
Bridgewater
MICHIGAN,
USA:
Great Lakes Humanist
Society
Contact: John Scalise
Southeast Michigan Chapter of
Freedom From
Religion Foundation
Contact: Kim Blaker
MISSOURI:
Community of Reason
Contact: Lynne
Schultz or Theo Schubert: 816-561-1866
Date: Sat,
February 15 1PM
Location: The Plaza, Kansas City,
MO
Activities: Darwin Day Event: Educating the public by handing
out fliers on evolution at The Plaza, KC MO. First we will
rendezvous at the coffee bar of Barnes and Noble, but won't pass out
any fliers until we are outside.
(Note: We were denied permission
by the OakPark Mall in Lenexa, Kansas to distribute fliers inside,
and the surrounding area is not set up for pedestrian traffic. The
Plaza is a popular outdoor shopping center in Kansas City, MO with
lots of public walkways so we don't need permission
there.)
Date: Sun, 10am, Feb. 16
Location: Kansas City
Zoo, 63rd St and Swope Park,Kansas City, MO
Activities: Primate
tour by zoo expert pending.
Comments: For non-members of the
zoo, admission is $6/adult, $3/child, kids under 2 are free.
Date: Sun, February 23 10AM
Location: in the library of
Hogan College Preparatory Academy, 1221 E. Meyer Blvd, Kansas City,
MO 64131
Activities: Darwin Day Lecture by Harry McDonald, award
winning veteran biology teacher and President of Kansas Citizens for
Science.
MINNESOTA,
USA:
University of
Minnesota
Contact: Jamis Ahern
NEBRASKA,
USA:
R.E.A.S.O.N.
Event: Fourth Annual Darwin
Day
Contact: Jim Bechtel
Location:
McFoster's Restaurant, 38th & Farnam, Omaha NE
Date: 2/12/03,
7 PM
Activities: Speaker, Professor Ted Burk of Creighton
University.
Dr. Burk studied under Richard Dawkins, and will
speak on "Darwin vs. Wallace on Science and
Pseudoscience."
NEVADA, USA:
Skeptics of Las Vegas
Contact: Shirley
Braverman
NEW JERSEY,
USA:
New Jersey City
University
Contact: William Dusenberry,
Ph.D.
Date: TBA
Activities: TBA
New
Jersey Humanist Network
Contact: Tamara Mount, Tel:
908-904-4901 or Joe Fox, Tel: 201-280-1451
Event: Celebrating Darwin Day with Carl Zimmer
Date:
Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 7pm
Location: Friends Conference
Center at Arbor Glen, 100 Monroe St, Bridgewater, NJ
08807
Activities: Carl Zimmer, Award winning science writer will
speak about orchids and barnacles (evolution); Qand A; Charles
Darwin discussion; refreshments.
NEW MEXICO,
USA:
New Mexicans for Science
and Reason
Contact: Dave Thomas Activities:
Paleontologist Spencer Lucas and Biologist Cosette Wheeler
Website
Information
Humanist Society
of New Mexico
Contact: Jerry Wesner
NEW YORK,
USA:
DOLAN DNA Learning
Center
Contact: Phone: (516) 367-5170, Fax: (516)
367-5182, Email: dnalc@cshl.org Event: Nobel
Laureate James D. Watson will talk about "DNA at 50: Finding the
Double Helix" on January 25th, February 8th, and 15th, 2003.
Comments: Forms available here
Tickets
for Finding the Double Helix are $10 for adults, and $5 for students
and seniors. To ensure that your order is processed quickly, please
send payment for all requested seats with a copy of your email
confirmation, to:
Dolan DNA Learning Center
Attn: Finding the
Double Helix
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 Bungtown
Road
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
Stuyvesant High School
Contact: John Galbraith
Simmons
Event: Darwin Alive!
Date: February 13
Activities: Talk and Discussion
Comments: Stuyvesant High
School is one of three specialized public high schools in New York
City, and one of the most selective in the nation. Historically, its
focus has been science, mathematics and technology. In 2002, 19 of
its students were chosen as semifinalists in the Intel Science
Talent Search.
Maria
College
Contact: Steve DeLorenzo
Date:
TBA
Activities: TBA
State
University of New York - Oswego
Contact: Charles
Echelbarger
Date: TBA
Activities: TBA
Wilson Magnet High School
Teacher: Lisa
Dennison
Long Island
Secular Humanists & Center for
Inquiry-MetroNY
Contact: Gerry Dantone (516 742
1662)
Event Title: Darwin Day
Date: Saturday, February 8,
2003, 2PM
Location: Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library, 999
Old Country Road, Nassau County, Long Island, NY
Activities:
Talks by Carl Zimmer, science writer; Prof Elof Carlson, geneticist;
Gerry Dantone, President, LISH; Sonny Meadows,
musician
Additional Comments: Free admission! Presentations on
Evolution, Darwin, Natural Selection, music, food refreshments!
Buffalo
Museum of Science
Contact: Violet Ciotti
Center for Inquiry International
Contact: Katherine
Bourdonnay, ( 716-636-7571 ext. 313 )
Hudson Valley Humanists
Contact: Edward
Poll
Hudson Valley Humanists: 845-247-0098
Event: Darwin
Day for Kids!
Location: New Paltz Village Hall, 25 Plattekill
Ave., New Paltz, NY
Date: Saturday, February 8,
1pm
Activities: Second annual "Darwin Day for Kids."
Fun and
learning activities for children ages 4-12 including displays of
animal artifacts, evolution trivia game, "Charlie the Chimp,"
evolution of bones workshop.
Humanist
Society of Metropolitan New York
Contact: Beth Lamont (914)
588-5284
NORTH CAROLINA,
USA:
University of North
Carolina at Pembroke
Contact: Derek Luttrell
Event:
Darwin Day Celebration
Date: 12 Feb. 03 0900-1200
Location:
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Activities:
Guest
Speaker, a film on Darwins life, and birthday cake
OHIO, USA:
Free Inquirers of Northeastern Ohio (FINO)
Contact: Bob Neifert, VP
Marketing
Event: February Topic: Darwin and Evloution
Date:
Wednesday evening February 12 from 7 to 8:45 pm
Location:
Brecksville Library, 9089 Brecksville Road, Brecksville, Ohio
44141-2313
Activities:
Guest Lecturer Patricia Princehouse of
Ohio Citizens for Science on Darwin, Evolution and the Nature of
Science.
Case Western Reserve University
Organizers:
Center for Science and Mathematics Education and Ohio Citizens for
Science
Contact: Patricia Princehouse
Teachers
can register by calling 216-368-3557,
or
they can just show up.
Date: The Teachers' Workshop is Sat Dec 7,
5-7:30 pm
(Free! including dinner)
The
lecture is on Sunday Dec 8, 2 pm
Location: Workshop: Pytte
Science Center on Adelbert Rd
Location:
Lecture: Strosacker Auditorium on the CWRU Campus
Activities: Public lecture titled "Darwin & the Politics of
Science Education" & Teachers'Workshop titled "Teaching Real
Controversies in Evolution" with Dr Eugenie Scott, director of the
National Center for Science Education
Ohio University
Organizers: Department
of Biological Sciences
Contact: Scott Moody
Date:
TBA
Activities: TBA
Ohio
Citizens for Science
Organizers: Center for Science and
Mathematics Education at Case Western University and Ohio Citizens
for Science
Contact: Patricia Princehouse
Teachers
can register by calling 216-368-3557,
or
they can just show up.
Date: The Teachers' Workshop is Sat Dec 7,
5-7:30 pm
(Free! including dinner)
The
lecture is on Sunday Dec 8, 2 pm
Location: Workshop: Pytte
Science Center on Adelbert Rd
Location:
Lecture: Strosacker Auditorium on the CWRU Campus
Activities: Public lecture titled "Darwin & the Politics of
Science Education" & Teachers'Workshop titled "Teaching Real
Controversies in Evolution" with Dr Eugenie Scott, director of the
National Center for Science Education
The Free Inquiry
Group (FIG)
Contact: Joe Levee, tel: 513-321-4824
Event: The Impact of Darwin on Religion and Humanism
Date:
Wednesday, February 12th. The program begins at 7:00
pm.
Location: Vernon Manor Hotel, 400 Oak Street, Cincinnati,
Ohio
Activities:
The Free Inquiry Group of Cincinnati and
Northern Kentucky and the American Humanist Association (AHA)
present: "The Impact of Darwin on Religion and Humanism" this coming
Wednesday, February 12, at 7:00 pm. This day commemorates Darwin’s
Birthday.
Fred Edwords is the Editorial Director of the American
Humanist Association in Washington, DC. This program will be part of
an international celebration of science and humanity in honor of
Darwin Day. Edwords is a leading voice for Humanism in the United
States and abroad, and is recognized as an outstanding lecturer and
debater on Humanist philosophical issues covering topics from civil
liberties to the creation-evolution debate.
Edwords’ talk will be
particularly pertinent considering the shift of politics and
religion in America over the last two years and the subsequent
expansion of the AHA. “With the creation-evolution debate re-ignited
and with George W. Bush using the presidency to promote a sectarian
agenda we have our work cut out for us,” says Edwords. “It is going
to be much more difficult for Darwin’s sound theories to prevail in
an atmosphere where government is hindering the progress of
science.”
OKLAHOMA,
USA:
John Marshall High
School
Teacher: Lorna R. Stein
Norman Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship
Contact: Tracy Curtis at Borders
(405) 573-2064 or Susan Cogan (405) 226-9712
Event: Darwin Day
2003
Date: February 16, 3pm & 7pm
Location: Borders
Bookstore, 300 Norman Center Court, Norman, OK
73072
Activities:
A children's program will be at 3 p.m. Stan
Upchurch will present "Creepy, Crawly and Other Things." He will
have live spiders, snakes, tortoises as part of his
presentation.
At 7pm, two University of Oklahoma Zoologists, Dr.
Vic Hutchison and Dr. Frank Sonlietner will lead a presentation
entitled "Darwin Then and Now." Dr. Sonleitner will talk about the
voyage of the Beagle and how it influenced Darwin's ideas, what
those ideas are, and how the manuscript sent to Darwin by Alfred
Russell Wallace stimulated the publication of The Origin of Species.
Dr. Hutchison will talk about Mendel's work, its rediscovery in
1900, new ideas about how evolution proceeds, DNA, and the modern
scientific evidence for the Theory of Evolution. There will be a
question and answer period afterward.
OREGON, USA:
Oregonians for Rationality (O4R)
Contact: Jeanine
DeNoma
Event: "Paleontology Before Darwin: Suitable for Young
Audiences?"
Date: Saturday, Feb 15, at 7:30 P.M.
Location:
Portland State University, Science Building 1, Room
107
Activities: Dr. Thwaites, professor emeritus of biology, San
Diego State University, is a strong advocate for high scientific
standards in science education. High school biology texts don't give
a historical perspective for evolution. In most texts, the
observation that species have changed over time is lumped together
with how that change occurred. Because of this confusion, students
question the observation as well as the explanation. Thwaites will
discuss the geologic observations leading to Darwin's historic
contribution to science and Thwaites's own unsuccessful attempt to
have this historical background for evolution included in a
well-known high school biology text.
This talk is free and open
to the public.
Eastern Oregon
University
Contact: Christopher Duva
Willamette University
Organizers:
Biology Department
Contact: Dr. David P.
Craig
Eugene
Round Earth Society
Contact: Dan Wilcox
Event: Darwin Day
Trip to Wildlife Safari
Location: Wildlife Safari located 1.5
hours south of Eugene, OR
Date: Sunday February 9th, 11:00 am to
6:00 pm
Activities: See rare animals in a natural setting; Learn
about the animals and biology in their interpretive center; Have
lunch at the onsite restaurant.
PENNSYLVANIA,
USA:
Wilkes
University Biology Department
Contact: Robert E.
Ogren
Duquesne
University
Organizers: Department of Biological
Sciences
Contact: David J. Lampe
Event:
Darwin Day 2003
Date: February 17, 2003
Activities:
All
day: Video: PBS television program "Evolution", Duquesne University
Union Lobby
10:00 AM - 3 PM: Tri-Beta Darwin Day display table,
Duquense University Union
4:00 - 5:00 PM: Dr Kenneth Miller:
"Time to Abandon Darwin? The challenge from "Intelligent Design"
Pappert Lecture Hall, Bayer Learning Center
5:00 - 5:30:
Discussion following Dr. Miller's lecture
5:30 - 6:30: Reception
for Dr. Miller, Bayer Learning Center Foyer
See Website: http://www-home.cr.duq.edu/~lampe/darwinday/
Saint Francis University
Organizers: Biology Department
Contact: John J.
Trimble
Penn State University -
Delaware County
Organizers: Earth Science & Biology
Faculty
Contact: Dr. Laura Guertin
New
Hope - Solebury High School
Teacher: Jon Gonsiewski
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Contact: Mary
Dawson
SOUTH CAROLINA,
USA:
College of
Charleston
Contact: Dr. Rob Dillon
Event: A
Neandertal in Your Closet?
Date: Monday, Feb. 10, from
5:30-6:30pm
Location: Science Center Room 123, College of
Charleston
Activities: A talk by Dr. Milford Wolpoff, Professor
of Anthropology at the University of Michigan
Additional
Comments: Open to the public. Followed by refreshments.
Event: Contemporary Adaptations: Explaining the Past and
Predicting the Future.
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 11, from
4:30-5:30pm
Location: Science Center Room 123, College of
Charleston
Activities: Talk by Dr. Tim Mousseau is Professor of
Biological Sciences at the University of South
Carolina
Additional Comments: Open to the public. Followed by
refreshments. Talk repeated at 6:40 - at The Citadel, Grimsley Hall
Auditorium, Room 117.
Event: Age of the Earth: From Darwin's
Time to Now
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 4:30pm - 5:30
pm
Location: Science Center Room 123, College of
Charleston
Activities: Talk by Dr. Paul Fullagar, Professor of
Geological Sciences at the University of North
Carolina
Additional Comments: Open to the public. Followed by
birthday cake and other refreshments.
Event: In Court:
Teaching Evolution and Creationism--Deja Vu All Over Again
Date:
Thursday, Feb. 13, 6-7 p.m.
Location: Education Center Room 118,
College of Charleston
Activities: Talk by Dr. David Mann,
Professor of Political Science at the College of
Charleston
Additional Comments: Open to the public. Repeat
Performance at The Citadel - 6:40 pm, Thursday Feb. 20. Grimsley
Hall Auditorium, Room 117.
Event: Inherit the Wind
Date:
Thursday, Feb 13, 7:00 - 9:20 p.m.
Location: Education Center
Room 118, College of Charleston
Activities: Film
Additional
Comments: Open to the public. Join the College of Charleston Film
Club for this dramatization of the "Scopes Monkey Trial."
TENNESSEE,
USA:
http://fp.bio.utk.edu/darwin/
Organizer:
Tennessee Darwin Coalition
Event: 7th annual Darwin Day at the
University of Tennessee
Contact: Massimo Pigliucci,
865-974-6221
Date: February 10 & 11
Location: University
of Tennessee campus, University Center
Activities:
8:00
AM-2:00 PM Information Booth, Lobby of the UT University Center.
Flyers and handouts available for the public, answering questions
about evolution, and sale of merchandise.
12:00 PM-4:30 PM
Documentary Festival at the UT University Center, room 225. Three
documentaries, each followed by a brief moderated
discussion.
12:00-1:30 Evolution: Episode 1, Darwin's
dangerous idea (NOVA, 2001).
1:30-3:00 Evolution: Episode 6,
The mind's big bang (NOVA, 2001).
3:00-4:30 Evolution:
Episode 7, What about God? (NOVA, 2001).
7:30 PM-9:00 PM
Keynote Address: Dr. Ian Tattersall, Paleontologist, American Museum
of Natural History on "Becoming Human," UT University
Center.
TEXAS,
USA:
University of Texas of
the Permian Basin
Organizer: UTPB Biology Club
Contact:
Steven Schafersman
Activities: The topic this Feb. 12 will be a showing of the
video Evolution, Darwin¹s Dangerous Idea, a beautifully filmed,
recent documentary narrated by Liam Neeson.
Ennis High School
Teacher: Melinda
Ludwig
Freethinkers Association of Central
Texas
Contact: Julie Fisher
The Humanists of Houston
Contact: Jimmy
Dunne
VIRGINIA,
USA:
Virginia
Tech
Contact: John B. Hodges
Dozier Middle School
Teacher: Beth Knight
Brown
Hemlock
Society
Contact: Anne Hodge
WASHINGTON,
USA:
Evergreen Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship
Contact: Bill Norton, wknorton@aol.com, (206)
200-8944
Date: Sunday, February 9, 10:30 to 11:30am
Location:
Evergreen Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1607 Fourth St.,
Marysville, WA 98270
Activities: Worship Service, Speaker:
William Calvin of the University of Wasington
Central Washington
University
Organizer: CWU Dept. of Biology
Contact: Steven
Verhey
Humanists of North
Puget Sound
Event Title: Darwinism: Past &
Present
Date: February 12, 2003; 7:00PM Location: Angst Hall,
Room A22, Skagit Valley College, 2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon,
WA 98273
Contact: Howard Pellett
Email: cpellett@cnw.com
Phone:
(360)293-8128
Web Site: http://www.humanistsnps.com/
Activities:
Drs. James Ford and James Monroe will discuss Darwin's "The Origin
of the Species"
Drs. Ford and Monroe are well known for their
years of teaching at Skagit ValleymCollege and for their
collaboration in producing a college-level biology text book.
WISCONSIN,
USA:
http://www.uww.edu/NPA/news_releases/2003/01/27_darwin_day.shtml
Organizer:
College of Letters and Sciences and the Tri-Beta Biological Honor
Society
Event: 2003 Darwin Day Lecture: "Marital Conflict and
Violence: An Evolutionary Perspective"
Contact: Jeffrey S.
McKinnon
Date: Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Hamilton
Center, located in the University Center on campus
Activities:
Margo Wilson, a highly respected scientist from McMaster University
in Ontario, Canada, will deliver the fifth annual Darwin Day
lecture.
A reception and unique activity will take place before
the lecture at 6:45 p.m. Students are encouraged to bring in their
favorite dessert shaped as their favorite plant or animal. The
desserts are then cleverly laid out to form the world's largest
edible phylogenetic tree.
Atheists and
Agnostics of Wisconsin
Contact: Jim Dew
Freethought Society of Wisconsin
Contact: Glenn
Curry
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