AN INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITY
Monday - Friday Feb 9 - 13
Post-Screening Discussion: Edward Larson, J. Randy Beck and Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. (UGA School of Law.)
Thursday, Feb 12
Wednesday, Feb 11
Noon
4:30 pm
7:00 pm
4:00 pm
Noon
Daily
Bookstore exhibit of books by and about Evolution and its impact on society.
“Beauty and the Beast: How Orchids Act as Parasites on Insects and Fungi." Richard Shefferson.
“Meet the Great, Great, Grandparents” Rene Bobe’s fossil hominid casts.
“Malaria, the Killer Plant” Mark Farmer
Panel: “The Role of Evolution in Medicine” Corrie Brown, Pat Thomas, David Lockman. A Blue Card event.
Screening of Judgment Day a Peabody award winning film documenting the events of leading up to the 2005 Dover Pennsylvania trial over the teaching of intelligent design. Introduced by Mark Farmer.
UGA Bookstore
Room 404A Biological Sciences Bldg.
Student Learning Center Lobby
Room 150 Miller Learning Center
South Psychology - Journalism Auditorium
South Psychology - Journalism Auditorium
Room 150 Miller Learning Center
12:30
“From Dayton to Dover: Celebrating Darwin's Birthday with a Brief History of the Evolution Teaching Controversy in America.” Dr. Edward Larson will present a seminar.
2401 Plant Sciences Bldg.
2:00 pm
"T. Rex wanna cracker?" A display of dinosaur bones with Ray Freeman-Lynde.
Student Learning Center Lobby
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Cellular Biology and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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Darwin Day Festivities: February 11-12, 2009
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Cellular Biology and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
Join us as for Darwin Day an international celebration of science and humanities.
Unless otherwise noted all events are free and open to the public.
7:30 pm
Screening of Inherit the Wind (1960) Based on the Scopes Monkey trial of 1925 starring Spencer Tracy, Frederic March and Gene Kelly. Introduced by Betty Jean Craige and Richard Neupert.
Room 101 Miller Learning Center
4:00 pm
“Epigenetics and Human Health: Was Lamarck Right?” Lecture and panel discussion. Richard Meagher, Fazal Khan and John McDonald. A Blue Card event.
Room C127 Life Sciences Bldg.
11:00 am
“Try a bit of Trilobite or Ammonite at the Races” Sally Walker’s display of fossil and edible invertebrates.
Student Learning Center Lobby
8:30 pm
Sunday, Feb 15
3:00 pm
"The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial" Presented by the L.A. Theatre Works and starring Emmy award winning actor Ed Asner.
Tickets $20 & $25
8:30 am
Plant Biology Graduate Student Association. 5K/Fun Run. Proceeds to benefit Georgia Citizens for Integrity in Science Education
Stegman Colesseum
$20 & $15