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Darwin Day 2020 events and materials
Posted on January 30th, 2020
Several activities are planned at Eastern Illinois University to celebrate Darwin Day the week of February 10-14.
Darwin Day is an annual and internationally celebrated event occurring on Charles Darwin’s birthday (Feb. 12). The mission of the International Darwin Day Organization is to “inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking, and hunger for truth as embodied in Charles Darwin.” It is meant to be “a day of celebration, activism, and international cooperation for the advancement of science, education, and human well-being”.
All events of this year’s Darwin Day program at EIU are organized around the theme “Climate Change and Evolutionary Crisis.”
Schedule of events
All events will take place at 7 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of EIU’s Doudna Fine Arts Center:
- Sunday, Feb. 9: Film and panel discussion: “Planetary” (2016) directed by Guy Reid, featuring panelists Drs. E. Bolinger, R. Colombo, C. Craig and B. Kronenfeld
- Monday, Feb. 10: “Evolution in a Rapidly Changing World: How Humans Influence Darwinian Evolution in Contemporary Landscapes,” presented by Dr. Jill Anderson, Odum School of Ecology and Department of Genetics, University of Georgia/Athens
- Tuesday, Feb. 11: “Climate Change and Environmental Sex Determination: An Unnatural Future?” presented by Dr. Fredric Janzen, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University/Ames.
All events are free and open to the public.
EIU Darwin Day Events are sponsored by the Darwin Day Committee in the Department of BIological Sciences, Dr. Zhiwei Liu, chair.
In support of Darwin Day, Librarian for the Biological Sciences Kirstin Duffin has curated a selection of works owned by Booth Library about Charles Darwin, and the effect of climate change on evolution. These works, listed below, are on display and available for checkout in the third-floor corridor of Booth Library.
