Darwin Film Series and Symposium
February 9 2009 01:02:38 PM
September 16 - October 28, 2009 (Wednesdays, times TBA), National Library of Medicine, Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A, first floor: "Motion Picture Evolution," a film series devoted to evolutionary movies and television programs. For over 100 years, filmmakers have imaginatively responded to the implications of evolutionary theory. This 7-week film series will show:
evolutionary monsters; evolutionary morality and bestiality; evolutionary degeneration, extinction and perfection; clashes between evolutionary theory and religious belief; human meddling with the "natural" course of evolution; and lots of scientists, dinosaurs, supermen and cavemen!
For more information: Michael Sappol, sappolm@mail.nih.gov, 301.594.0348.
October 1, 2009, National Library of Medicine, Lister Hill Auditorium, Bldg 38A, first floor: "Finished Proofs?," a symposium to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859). Leading historians and scientists will explore changing and contested understandings of Darwinian theory over the last 150 years.
For more information: David Cantor, cantord@mail.nih.gov, 301.402.8915.
