Schedule of Lectures and Discussions

Biological Sciences, Max Palevsky Theater

Friday, October 30

9:30-10:10  Douglas Futuyma (Stony Brook):
"Evolutionary Ecology and the Question of Constraints"

10:15-10:55  Peter and Rosemary Grant (Princeton):
"Natural Selection, Speciation, and Darwin's Finches"

10:55-11:15  Coffee Break

11:15-11:55  Douglas Schemske (Michigan State):
"Ecological Factors in the Origin of Species"

12:00-1:30  Lunch (at 12:30, lecture by Paul Sereno in the Palevsky theater: "Dinosaurs: Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Darwin to the Present").

1:30-2:10  Frederick Cohan (Wesleyan University):
"The Origins of Ecological Diversity in Prokaryotes"

2:15-2:55 Jerry Coyne (University of Chicago):
"Speciation:  Problems and Prospects"

2:55-3:15  Coffee Break

3:15-3:55  Eric S. Lander (Broad Institute, Harvard & MIT):
"Genomics and Darwin in the 21st Century"

4:00-4:40  Philip Ward (U. of California, Davis):
"What Do Phylogenies Tell Us about Evolution?"

Saturday, October 31

9:30-10:10  Thomas Schoener (U. of California, Davis):
"The Newest Synthesis:  Evolution + Ecology = EvoEco"

10:15-10:55  David Jablonski (University of Chicago):
"Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology: The Revitalized Partnership"

10:55-11:15  Coffee Break

11:15-11:55  David Kingsley (Stanford University):
"Fishing for the Secrets of Vertebrate Evolution"

12:00-1:30  Lunch

1:30-2:10  Neil Shubin (University of Chicago):
"Great Transformations in Life: Insights from Genes & Fossils"

2:15-2:55  Joel Kingsolver (University of North Carolina):
"Strength and Mode of Selection in Natural Populations"

2:55-3:15  Coffee Break

3:15-3:55  Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard University):
“What Darwin Did and Didn’t Know: the Ultimate and Proximate Causes of Evolutionary Change”

5:00-6:30  Reception

History and Philosophy, 3rd Floor Theater

Friday, October 30

9:30-10:10  Pietro Corsi  (Oxford):
"Is History Useful to Darwin Studies? Reflections at the End of a Year of Celebrations"

10:15-10-55  Janet Browne (Harvard):
"Looking at Darwin:  Making a Celebrity through Portraits and Images"

10:55-11:15  Coffee Break

11:15-11:55  Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago):
"Darwin's Biology of Intelligent Design"

12:00-1:30  Lunch



1:30-2:10  John Hedley Brooke (Oxford):
"'God knows what the public will think': Darwin and the Religious Response to the Origin of Species"

2:15-2:55  Eugenie Scott (National Center for Science Education):
"What Would Darwin Say to Today’s Creationists?"

2:55-3:15  Coffee Break

3:15-3:55  Philip Kitcher (Columbia University):
"The Importance of Darwin for Philosophy"

4:00-4:40  Daniel Dennett (Tufts University):
"Darwin's 'Strange Inversion of Reasoning': Confronting the Counterintuitive"

Saturday, October 31

9:30-10:10  Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin):
"Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?"

10:15-10:55  Lynn Nyhart (University of Wisconsin):
"Geographic Isolation from Wagner to Mayr"

10:55-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-11:55  Richard Burkhardt (University of Illinois):
"Animal Behavior in Evolutionary Perspective: Two Centuries of Inquiry"

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:10  Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University):
"Embryos and Evolution: A History of Courting and Separation"

2:15-2:55  Michael Ruse (Florida State University):
"Is Darwinism Past Its 'Sell-by' Date? The Challenge of Evo-Devo"

2:55-3:15  Coffee Break

3:15-3:55  Kim Sterelny (Australian National University):
"Fate of the Third Chimpanzee"

4:00-4:40  William Wimsatt (University of Chicago):
"The Roles of Ontogeny and Population Structure in Theories of Human Cultural Evolution"

5:00-6:30 Reception