Darwin Day Celebration

DNA IS AT THE HEART OF EVOLUTION

AN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITY

2009

All Celebrations for Darwin, Science and Humanity to take place on/or near February 12th, 2009, will be placed below.

This will be the big year — Darwin's 200th birthday, to be celebrated by the GLOBAL community as a toast to the common good of all humanity. We will all want to develop events to Celebrate Darwin, Science and Humanity and come together as one human family in appreciation of verifiable knowledge that has been acquired solely through human curiosity and ingenuity. Scientific knowledge has been of great value to all of us.

By 2009 it is our hope that the Celebration of Science and Humanity will be so well established that DURING THE REMANDER OF THE YEAR we will all want to continue to work to make February the 12th a International day to recognize Verifiable Scientific Knowledge and to appreciate the connection of Humankind to the acquisition of this knowledge. One experiences an intellectual freedom of understanding by realizing that all living things on earth have a common evolutionary history that connects us all. So it is our expectation that we will all continue to work together to expand the CELEBRATION OF DARWIN, SCIENCE AND HUMANITY!

If you are planning a Celebration for 2008 please register it here.

Events for 2009, sorted by country, then by state, and then by city.
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Title: Ozzie Darwin Pow-wow 2009 ( Public )

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Title: Charles Darwin Anniversary Celebrations ( Public )

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Charles Darwin University (Australia), in partnership with the Northern Territory Government and the City of Darwin is currently planning a number of events in 2009 to commemorate Charles Darwin’s birthday and achievements. These events aim to raise awareness of who Charles Darwin was, what he achieved and how his legacy is relevant to the present day Northern Territory, both in the academic and broader community. The programme that is developed will be interdisciplinary and will include activities around the natural sciences, the creative arts and humanities, philosophy, religion and the social sciences. Further details will be forthcoming.

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Title: DARWIN DAY - Viva la vida! Ein Fest für das Leben ( Public )

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Title: Expo Darwin 200 Anos ( Public )

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Title: Vancouver Evolution Festival ( Public )

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Title: The Year of Darwin ( Public )

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Title: A DAY IN THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS WITH CHARLES DARWIN ( Public )

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For an entire day, guests on board ALTA, PARRANDA, EVOLUTION and GRACE Galapagos cruises will take a step back in time to the days of Charles Darwin. On board all our Galapagos ships, guests will enjoy briefings and presentations on the life of Charles Darwin and his theory on evolution. It will be an active, life-seeing account on the life of this magnificent scientist where guests will be able to see and witness precisely the same animals and events that Darwin himself witnessed over 2 centuries ago.

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Title: Galapagos Science Symposium ( Public )

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Title: Galapagos Science Symposium ( Public )

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Title: II World Summit on Evolution ( Public )

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The Second World Summit on Evolution (WSE) will convene 24-27 August 2009 in the Galapagos Islands. With their historical significance in the development of the evolutionary theory, the Galapagos Islands offer an unparalleled venue to celebrate Darwin's bicentennial. The summit will bring together experts and students from widely different areas of evolutionary biology that rarely have the chance to meet. The focus will be on recent research and new advances in our understanding of evolution and the diversity of life. One session will focus in directly on containing the spread of creationism and intelligent design while improving the public’s understanding of evolution throughout the Americas and elsewhere. Unlike the First WSE in 2005, there will be a mix of invited speakers and submitted talks.

The summit will also include the first meeting of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Biologia Evolutiva (SIBE). SIBE will be the first truly international forum that can lead to the establishment of academic and intellectual bonds between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking specialists in evolutionary biology.

The Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Ecuador, will again host the WSE and the first meeting of the SIBE on its Galapagos campus. This campus is located on the Island of San Cristobal and was established in 2002. This Summit is planned as part of a broader program designed to teach evolution to students and the general public that will take place throughout the year in mainland Ecuador.

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This four-day conference will consist of 40-minute talks by invited speakers, as well 15-minute submitted talks. There will also be poster sessions. Professors, post-docs, and students from throughout the world will be able to submit abstracts for talks or posters. This conference will include 250 participants; thirty speakers and chairs will be invited.
On the third day, conference participants will be able to attend guided tours of the island. Both terrestrial and marine environments will be visited.

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Title: Darwin & Origin - Evolution & Revolution ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Bicentennial Day Celebration ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day 2009 ( Public )

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INCONTRO-DIBATTITO

Saluto di benvenuto

Sindaco Mario Cicero

Introduzione

Prof. Anna Maria Cangelosi

Interverranno

Prof. Barbara Continenza
Professore di Storia del pensiero scientifico
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Darwin e l’«abominevole» libro

Prof. Olga Rickards
Professore di Antropologia molecolare
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Fossili e molecole per
raccontare la storia evolutiva dell'uomo

Prof. Valerio Agnesi
Dipartimento di Geologia e Geodesia
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Il lungo cammino della geologia:
dal mito alla scienza

Moderatore
Prof. Luca Sineo
Ordinario di Antropologia
Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali
Università degli Studi di Palermo

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Title: THE CHARLES DARWIN THEATRE PROJECT ( Public )

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2009 is the bi-centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. To commemorate this event, a New Zealand theatre company is preparing to produce a play about Darwin which will run in conjunction with public debates and lectures organised by the Royal Society of New Zealand.

It is planned that the Wellington performances will take place in Te Papa at the beginning of 2009, traveling to other main cities in the following weeks: Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Napier, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin.

The play will give an "essentialised" picture of Darwin's life, showing in dramatic form much that is unknown by most people and that needs to be understood for anyone to make an informed judgment concerning Darwin's theory. The play will be aimed at all who are interested in the origin and consequences of his theory and will not take sides but let individual characters give the different sides of the debate. A depiction of the complex forces working in Darwin over the twenty years in which he held back speaking out about his theory makes for a fascinating human study. His own gradual loss of faith in religion is contrasted with the Christian belief of his wife, Emma. Audiences will come out of the play knowing much more about Darwin the man and the origin of his theory and greatly stimulated to think over the pros and cons of the theory as it relates to our own times.

The producers of the play are glad to hear of any interest among the science community for hosting debates or from companies willing to be sponsors to individual performances or events surrounding the play.

Enquiries through glenda.lewis@rsnz.org

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Title: MESA REDONDA ( Public )

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Title: CONFERENCIA ( Public )

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Title: "Una luz en la evolución, una hoguera para la humanidad" ( Public )

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Title: BE DARWIN ( Public )

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Title: Segundo Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva ( Public )

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Title: Celebrating Evolution ( Public )

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Title: Humanism, Evolution, Education ( Public )

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Title: Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday Party ( Public )

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Title: The Evolution of Evolution: Using Synthetic Systems to Explain N ( Public )

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The second law of thermodynamics states that a natural system will with time become increasingly random. There are, however, two kinds of natural system: those that follow this law and those that don’t. Living systems are of the second kind. Unlike the waves on the surface of the North Sea or an avalanche tumbling down the side of Ben Nevis, living structures ‘have a purpose’ … to survive, to invert the relentless move towards randomness – at least for a while. The brain is arguably the most complicated of these and thus one of the most difficult to describe. What is more, if we are to explain the brain we must first understand the code hidden in its described structure. Here, in celebration of Darwin’s ‘Origin of the Species’, we will talk about what this code might be and how it evolved … but not in the real world. Instead we will talk about the evolution of virtual agents in synthetic worlds and how this may help explain how natural brains halt the perpetual walk to randomness.

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Title: Debate: The Science of Evolution Has Rendered Genesis Obsolete ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day Trip to London Zoo ( Public )

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Title: UW-Madison's Fourth Annual Darwin Day ( Public )

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Morning Session - Ebling Auditorium - Microbial Sciences Building

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Sean Carroll - UW-Madison Laboratory of Genetics
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

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Patricia McConnell - UW Madison Department of Zoology
Darwin, Dogs, and the Emotional Life of Animals

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Jeremy Jackson -Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Evolution and Extinction in the Brave New Ocean

Afternoon Session - Microbial Sciences Building - UW Madison

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Book signing by Sean Carroll and Patricia McConnell

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Teacher Workshop - seats are limited - call 262-1412 to register
Paul Williams - Department of Plant Pathology
Fast Plants: Getting a Handle on Variation

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Short presentations by UW Madison researchers

* Audrey Gasch - Laboratory of Genetics
The Power of Yeast: Using Model Organisms to Study Environmental Interactions and Evolution
* Shanan Peters - Department of Geology and Geophysics
On the Imperfection of the Geologic Record
* John Hawks - Department of Anthropology
Genetics of Hearing and the Evolution of Language
* Nicole Perna - Laboratory of Genetics
Would You Eat This? Genomic Perspectives on Variation Among E. coli Strains
* Tony Goldberg - School of Veterinary Medicine
West Nile Virus: "Real Time" Evolution With "Real World" Consequences
* Stanley Temple - Department of Wildlife Ecology
Consequences of Bottlenecks for Evolution and Conservation

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Interactive exploration stations

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Panel Discussion - Science and the Media

* James Crow - Laboratory of Genetics
* Jeremy Jackson - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
* Molly Jahn - College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

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Title: In the Light of Evolution III: Two Centuries of Darwin ( Public )

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Title: 2009 Dean's Symposium: Evolutionary Biology: Molecules to Man ( Public )

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Title: Celebrating science and D-200 ( Public )

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Title: 150 Years of Evolution - Darwin's Impact on the Humanities & Soc ( Public )

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Title: Science, Wisdom, and the Future ( Public )

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A conference that will explore humanity's evolutionary,scientific, and spiritual knowledge of itself as a species and how we might combine this knowledge with wisdom to create a sustainable future and a florishing earth. It will draw together scientist, political and cultural studies, wisdom studies, futurists, theological and philsophical understandings, artistic and poetic expressions, and business and sustainability experts. It is the third in the Humanity Participants' Conference Series. See the above website for full information on the conference and the series.

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Title: Stanford Darwin Day Symposium ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Comes to Santa Barbara ( Public )

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Title: Separated at Birth: The Lincoln/Darwin Festival ( Public )

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Title: Exhibit at the University of Connecticut Libraries (Storrs, Conn ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day at UGA ( Public )

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Title: 11th Prairieland Chautauqua, Jacksonville, Illinois ( Public )

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Title: Celebrating the Spirituality of Evolution ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Live & In Concert ( Public )

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Songwriter, dramatist, anthropologist, and historian of science Richard Milner has written a solo musical about Charles Darwin and evolution, which he performs at theaters, universities, museums, and cultural institutions worldwide. The critically acclaimed production, "Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert," takes the audience on the voyage of the HMS Beagle, introducing them to Darwin's friends and enemies, and continues into the evolution controversies after his death, such as the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. Fans of the show include Penn & Teller, Tony Randall, Sir David Attenborough, and Stephen Jay Gould, as well as the Darwin family. Milner has appeared on the A&E Biography of Charles Darwin, BBC science specials, and on History Channel programs about evolution.

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Title: Symposium on Evolution ( Public )

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In celebration of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work, On the Origin of Species, we are sponsoring a symposium on evolution.
Our presenters are:
Randy Moore, University of Minnesota, Jack Horner, Montana State University, Rob Knight, University of Colorado, Lisa Steiner, MIT, Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College and Don Johanson, Arizona State University. In addition to the seminars that will be presented from the above speakers, we plan on having a poster session open to registration by students and faculty that wish to actively participate. There will be a dinner the evening of September 3 at which time you will have a chance to meet the speakers one on one.

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Title: “Darwin's Reach: A Celebration of Darwin's Legacy Across Academi ( Public )

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Keynote speakers include:

Frans de Waal, Ph.D., Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University; author of Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape; preeminent researcher on primate social behavior

Niles Eldredge, Ph.D., Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History; curator of the Darwin exhibition; author of Charles Darwin - Discovering the Tree of Life and numerous other books on the subject of evolution

Judge John E. Jones III, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, who ruled against the Dover (Pennsylvania) area school board’s attempt to introduce teaching on "intelligent design" into school science classes

Jay Labov, Ph.D., senior advisor for education and communications at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

William F. McComas, Ph.D., Parks Family Professor of Science Education, University of Arkansas; 2007 recipient of the Evolution Education Award sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS)

Papers exploring diverse topics on Darwin’s legacy are invited from a wide variety of disciplines, including the natural and social sciences, humanities and law.

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Title: A Day for Darwin ( Public )

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Title: Darwin's Reach: Celebrating Darwin's Legacy Across Disciplines ( Public )

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Interdisciplinary conference on the life and legacy of Chas. Darwin. Topics to include: Darwin as a Scientist; Reception of Darwinian Evolution in the 19th Century; Darwinian Evolution in the 21st Century; Evolution in the Courts; Evolution and Religion; Evolution and Morality; Evolution and Sex/Gender; Evolution and Medicine; Evolution and Language; Evolution and Global Climate Change
Also special sessions on evolution education (for K-12 teachers), cultural events (music, theater), keynote speakers.

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Title: Darwin Day Family Festival NY Metro Area Ethical Culture Society ( Public )

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Title: World Premiere: The Origin by Richard Einhorn ( Public )

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Title: 150 Years Since Darwin: What Next? ( Public )

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Title: Darwin, the exhibition ( Public )

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Explore the life and discoveries of Charles Darwin, whose insights led to the theory of evolution by natural selection, forever changing the perception of the origin and nature of our species and launching modern biological science.

Touch amazing reproductions such as the giant glyptodont skeleton, a prehistoric armored mammal. Immerse yourself in a colorful montage of silk orchids, a plant family that fascinated Darwin. See how Darwin's ideas took shape, and examine notebooks and letters charting the development of his revolutionary theory.

Visit an elaborate reconstruction of Darwin’s study at Down House, where he proposed his theory that all life on Earth evolves according to the mechanism of natural selection and where he completed his book, The Origin of Species.

Darwin offers a fascinating collection of specimens, artifacts, manuscripts and memorabilia related to one of the most influential scientists the world has ever known.

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Title: Darwin Celebration ( Public )

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On Thursday, February 12 through Sunday, February 15 from 1:00-3:00pm, celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birthday on February 12th, and the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species with a special display of rare books and hands-on activities for children in the Eleanor Squire Library.

Free with Garden Admission, no registration required.

The rare books will be on display in the Eleanor Squire Library at Cleveland Botanical Garden to celebrate Darwin's achievements from February 1-March 29, 2009.

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Title: The Story of Evolution and The Evolution of Stories ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Service ( Public )

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Title: Abe and Chuck's Birthday Party ( Public )

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Title: Darwin and Lincoln - Why They Matter ( Public )

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Title: Darwin: Evidence and Evolution ( Public )

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Title: Darwin: Evidence and Evolution ( Public )

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Title: Lucy in the Sky with Darwin's... 200th! ( Public )

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Title: The Codex & The Helix: Book Arts Exploring Evolution ( Public )

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Gonzaga University's Foley Center Library is now accepting submissions of original artists' books that faithfully portray the science behind evolution and/or the political and social history of evolutionary theory in an artistic codex, scroll, volvelle, or other book arts form. The entries will be evaluated by a diverse panel of judges (including biologists, artists, and librarians), and selected submissions will be installed in Foley Special Collections as part of The Codex & The Helix: Book Arts Exploring Evolution. Winning entries and the legacy of Darwin will be celebrated at a reception on February 12, 2009. Entries must be postmarked by October 31, 2008.

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Title: Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society service ( Public )

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Title: Humanist Union Darwin Day Discussion ( Public )

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