Darwin Across the Disciplines:

Five Classes, One Seminar Series, and

Four or More Campus-Wide Lectures

Spring 1999

Calendar of Events | Five Classes at the Honors College | Preston Seminars |

Sponsors | Science Studies at USC

Calendar of Events

[ "Common Experiences" for Honors College Students are boldfaced

watch for updates and corrections of this calendar]

Friday, January 22nd, 3 to 4 pm in Gambrell 152 Introductory Panel at the Honors College: Introducing the five Darwin-Across-the-Disciplines courses and Michael Behe's upcoming lecture
Monday, January 25th, 4pm in Gambrell 258 Gregory Cooper (Philosophy at Duke University): "Ecosystem Integrity and Environmental Policy"
Tuesday, January 26th, 5pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room Ina Roy (Philosophy, Medical Humanities) introduces us to Darwinian thought in Victorian and modern literature
Friday, January 29th, 4pm, Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 002 Michael Behe (Lehigh University, author of Darwin's Black Box): "Detecting Intelligent Design in Biochemical Systems" [Lipscomb Lecture]
Tuesday, February 2nd, 5pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room Roy Schwartzman (Theater and Speech) discusses Social Darwinism, Eugenics, and Nazi Racial Science
Friday, February 5th, 3 to 4pm in Gambrell 152 Introductory Panel at the Honors College: Preparing for Richard C. Lewontin's upcoming lecture
Tuesday, February 9th, 2 to 3:30pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room The Dialectical Biologist Revisited -- Interdisciplinary panel discussion with Richard C. Lewontin. Invited panelists include Andrew Gordon (Public Health), Tom Leatherman (Anthropology), Ina Roy (Philosophy and Medical Humanities)
Tuesday, February 9th, 5pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room Rosamond Sprague (Philosophy) talks about the biology of Aristotle and ancient ideas concerning sexual generation
Tuesday, February 9th, 7pm, Jones Physical Science Center, Room 210 (Bouknight Auditorium) Richard C. Lewontin (Biologist from Harvard, author of Human Diversity; Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA): "The Organism as Subject and Object of Evolution"
Tuesday, February 9th, immediately following the Lewontin-lecture, around 9pm in the Thomas Cooper library Opening of an exhibition of the C. Warren Irvin Collection of Darwiniana
Tuesday, February 16th or 23rd, 5pm in the Thomas Cooper library The Preston Seminars continue with a presentation by book-collector and student of Darwin and Darwinism, C.Warren Irvin
Thursday, February 18th, 2pm, Preston Seminar Room Michael Heidelberger (Humboldt Universität Berlin/ Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science) gives a talk on 19th century (philosophy of) science
Monday, March 1st, 7pm, Bouknight Auditorium, Jones Physical Sciences Center Thomas Meagher (Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at Rutgers University) "Evolutionary Biology in the New Millenium" [Townsend Lecture on the Social Impact of the Biological Sciences]
Tuesday, March 2nd at 2pm, Preston Seminar Room Micro- vs. Macroevolution: Discussion with Townsend Lecturer Thomas Meagher (Rutgers University); discussants include Tim Mousseau (Biology at USC) and three philosophers of biology: Todd Grantham (College of Charleston), Ina Roy (USC), and Kelly Smith (Clemson).
Tuesday, March 2nd, 5pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room Preston Seminar: Fast, Cheap, and out of Control (film my Errol Morris)
Tuesday, March 16th, 5pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room Preston Seminar with Walter Peters (College of Engineering) on technology, evolution, and nature.
Tuesday, March 23rd, 5pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room Preston Seminar with Tom Leatherman (Anthropology) on Human Evolution
Friday, March 26th, 3 to 4 pm in Gambrell 152 Introductory Panel at the Honors College: Preparing for Daniel Dennett's upcoming lecture
Wednesday, March 31st, 12:15pm Seminar Room of the Philosophy Department Bernd Buldt (Philosophy, University of Konstanz): "Science and Reasoning in the 19th Century"
Thursday, April 1st, 5pm, Gambrell 429 Daniel Dennett (Tufts University): "Are you out of the loop: When and where do we make up our minds?"
Thursday, April 1st, 7:30pm, Currell Auditorium Daniel Dennett (Philosopher from Tufts, author of Brainstorms, Elbow Room, Consciousness Explained, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, co-author of The Mind's I): "Evolution and Creativity: Cranes vs. Skyhooks"
Tuesday, April 6th, 5pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room John Scott Wilson (History) talks about Social Darwinism in the United States
Tuesday, April 13th, 5pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room Sue Carstensen (Biology at Columbia College) presents the ecology and evolution of our favorite plant: Kudzu
Friday, April 16th, 3 to 4pm in Gambrell 152 Introductory Panel at the Honors College: Preparing for Elizabeth Bates's upcoming lecture
Tuesday, April 20th, 4:30pm in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room The Preston Seminars conclude with student presentations
Tuesday, April 20th, 7:30pm, Callcott Auditorium Elizabeth Bates (University of California at San Diego, author of Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective): "On the Evolution and Development of Language"
Friday, April 23rd, 3 to 5pm, Gambrell 152 Poster sessions, presentations, concluding panel discussions by the students in the Darwin-Across-the-Disciplines-courses










This series of presentations and events is organized and sponsored by the South Carolina Honors College, USC's Science Studies Group, and Preston Residential College, with help from the Lipscomb Lecture Series (Behe), the College of Science and Mathematics (Lewontin), Townsend Lecture on the Social Impact of the Biological Sciences (Meagher), the Departments of Biological Sciences (Lewontin), Chemistry and Biochemistry (Behe and Lewontin), Philosophy (Buldt and Dennett), and Psychology (Bates).

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Five Classes at the Honors College

ANTH 361: Becoming Human

Tom Leatherman (Anthropology) MWF 10:10 to 11am, GAMB 150

BIOL 301: Ecology and Evolution

Jerry Hilbish (Biology) TTh 12:30 to 1:45, CLS 102

SCCC 360J: Darwin's Achievement

Alfred Nordmann (Philosophy) TTh 2 to 3:15, Preston Seminar Room

SCCC 386D: Creation, Evolution, and Scientific Naturalism

Daniel Buxhoeveden (Anthropology) W 2:30 to 5pm, MAX 123

SCCC 430N: Brain and Language

René Schmauder (Psychology) TTh 11 to 12:15, FL 207

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Preston Seminars

Darwin's Descendants -- Preston Seminars on the Evolutionary Record

Descriptions: A series of presentations loosely related to Darwinian themes. The public is invited to attend any one or the whole series of seminars. Students who live at Preston have the additional option to take the entire series of seminars for credit (UNIV 290X, 1 credit-hour). Other students interested in this option should contact Ken Perkins or Alfred Nordmann.

The seminars will last for one hour (including discussion). Our conversations with the presenter can continue during dinner at the Preston Dining Hall. (Students who are taking the seminar-series for credit will meet 30 minutes before each scheduled presentation).

A first informal and informational session takes place on Tuesday, January 12th, at 5pm in the Preston Seminar Room. For the further content of the seminar series, see the Darwin Across the Disciplines calendar.

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For more information send a message to Alfred Nordmann, Department of Philosophy, USC.

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