Darwin Bicentenary Celebration Events

Cambridge University

The Bicentenary Festival,
July 5-10, 2009
Speakers

Boston University

Colloqium for Philosophy of Science: 2009 Darwin Celebration

January 26, 2009: Lectures by Michael Ruse, Robert Richards, and Daniel Dahlstrom
February 12, 2009 Lectures by Matt Cartmill, Michael Lyons, Bart Lipman, and others.
April 3-4, 2009  Lectures by Thomas Glick, Pietro Corsi, Jean Gayon
April 24, 2009  Four lectures on Darwin's impact in the United States
May 1, 2009  Lectures on Darwin in biography

University of Chicago

Darwin Symposium, October 29-31, 2009

Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.

Darwin's Reach
A Celebration of Darwin's Legacy Across Academic Disciplines
March 12-14 2009

University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History will host a
year-long series of events commencing February 12, 2009. 

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

74th Annual Symposium
May 27-June 1: Evolution: The Molecular Landscape 

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y.

A four day meeting of biologists, philosophers, historians, and other scholars to ask where evolutionary theory is now, how it got there, and where it may conceivably go. November, 2009. 

Yale University

Yale Center for British Art will hold an exhibition: 'Endless Forms: Charles
Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts'.  The exhibition opens on February 12, 2009 and continues until May 3. 

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Darwin and Evolution, 2008-2009.  A year of lectures and other
events beginning in August, 2008. 

Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.

Thirteen lectures by distinguished speakers, September 2008--April 2009.

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

The Intersection of Faith & Evolution: Defining Science and Religion.
22 October 2008.

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

Conference on The Impact of Darwin and Evolution: Beyond Biology.
1-3 November 2009.

Davidson College, Davidson, N.C.

Darwin Year Celebration: Thirteen Lectures. September 2008--February 2009.

Toulouse Museum, Toulouse, France

Public lectures and exhibitions, February--October 2009.

Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Oxford University

Religious Responses to Darwinism 1859-2009. 15-18 July 2009.

Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy

Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories: A critical Appraisal 150 Years After The Origin of Species.  March 3-7, 2009

Darwin200

A national (UK) programme of events celebrating Darwin’s scientific ideas and their influence.   

Darwin Today

Celebrating Modern evolutionary research

The Guardian, London

On the origin of the species

University of California, San Diego

Dean's Symposium on Evolutionary Biology: From Molecules to Men, April 3, 2009 

University of Pennsylvania

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Year of Evolution, April 2008-May 2009. 

State Darwin Museum, Moscow 

Darwin exhibitions throughout 2009. 

Evolution - the Experience

Melbourne Convention Centre Feb 8 - 13 2009. Click here for details.

For additional events, see Darwin Online.  

 

Charles Robert Darwin

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