Darwin at 200: Contributions and Challenges |
Time: February-April 2009
When: Power Center Ballroom and Union Ballroom
Duquesne hosted a series of evening lectures that examined the broad impact of evolutionary thinking on many areas of human thought, including biology, sociology, psychology and theology.
Past lectures are listed below:
- Darwin Biographer
Janet Browne - 2/9/09 - Humans as an evolutionary patchwork
Alan Walker - 2/12/09
- Social Darwinism and Philanthropy in Pittsburgh’s Gilded Ages: The Untold History of Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and Two of the “Richest Men in the World”
Paul Krause - 2/20/09
- Darwin in the History of Ideas: From Natural Theology to Natural Selection
Francisco Ayala - 3/18/09
- Is the Human Hand a Serious Evolutionary Topic? Darwin and Bell thought so – maybe we should, too
Frank Wilson - 3/27/09
- Darwin and the Split between Natural and Sexual Selection
Elizabeth Grosz- 4/1/09
- Can You Believe in God and Evolution? A Guide for the Perplexed
Martinez Hewlett - 4/23/09
