Schedule of EVents for February 9-13, 2009

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(click here to download event schedule as pdf)

All Week:

Campus-wide Classroom Teach-in

Darwin's influence on our course curricula

Before/During/After

Displays
Darwin and Evolution - Oviatt Library Lobby (Click here for exhibit description)
Darwin and Evolution Essay/Creative Works Contest for Undergraduates (Click here for instructions on competition)

Monday Feb. 9:

1. Evolution Film Festival in Oviatt Library Presentation Room (Lower Level, West Wing) from 9:00 to 5:00 pm. (Click here for film descriptions and times)
Films showing include "Great Transformations", "Beyond Genesis: The Origin of Species", "Clay: Origin of Species", "Why Sex?", "Inherit the Wind", "Accidents of Creation" and "Gattaca".

2. Performance at 12:15 pm outside of Redwood Hall (corner of E. University Drive and Vincennes St.)
Evolution Dance : Bethana Rosenthal, Kinesiology/Dance Dept. (CSUN) and Dreamscape Dance Theater

Tuesday Feb. 10:

1. Performance at 12:15 pm outside of Redwood Hall (corner of E. University Drive and Vincennes St.)
Evolution Dance : Bethana Rosenthal, Kinesiology/Dance Dept. (CSUN) and Dreamscape Dance Theater

2. Performance in Nordhoff 100 Auditorium at 3:00 pm
Scene from "Inherit the Wind"

3. Panel Discussion in Nordhoff 100 Auditorium at 3:15 (immediately following performance):

Drs. Rick Talbott, Randal Cummings, Jim Hogue, Martin Cohen (all from CSUN): Evolution, science, and religion

4. Activities for local middle and high school students: 2:00 to 5:15 pm, meet at front of theater in USU (Click here for Schedule)

Wednesday Feb. 11

1. Presentation in Oviatt Library Presentation Room (Lower Level, West Wing) at 10:00 am

Dr. David Lightfoot (Georgetown University) - Late 19th Century Linguistics: Triumphs and Failures (slide outline of presentation here)

2. Presentation in Satellite Student Union (at Zelzah Ave and Lassen St.) at 7:00 pm

Dr. Elise Trumbull (CSUN): Language: Its Role in Learning and Development

Thursday Feb. 12 (Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday)

1. Performance at 12:15 pm outside of Redwood Hall (corner of E. University Drive and Vincennes St.)
Evolution Dance : Bethana Rosenthal, Kinesiology/Dance Dept. (CSUN) and Dreamscape Dance Theater

2. Symposium in Nordhoff 100 Auditorium at 3:00 pm (Click here for Schedule)

Evolution Research at CSUN

3. Presentation in Nordhoff 100 Auditorium at 4:40 pm

Dr. David Wake (University of California Berkeley) - Darwinian Species Formation: Adaptive Divergence in a Salamander Ring-species Complex (abstract)

Friday Feb. 13

Presentations in USU Grand Salon from 2:00 - 5:00 pm

1. Dr. Eloy Rodriguez (Cornell University) at 2:00 pm- Darwinian Medicine and the Genesis of Organic Natural Medicines (abstract)

2. Dr. Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut) at 3:00 pm- Natural Selection and Consciously Reasoned Human Behaviors (abstract)

3. Dr. Kenneth Waters (University of Minnesota) at 4:00 pm- Chance and Contingency in Evolutionary History