Darwin Day Celebration

DNA IS AT THE HEART OF EVOLUTION

AN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITY

2008

All Celebrations for Darwin, Science and Humanity to take place on/or near February 12th, 2008, will be placed below.

After February 2008 we will make every effort to communicate and cooperate with all other groups honoring the bicentenial of Darwin's birth, on/or near February 12th, 2009. Coordination and cooperation of all interested parties should insure a Grand Global Celebration known as Darwin Day in recognition of Darwin, Verifiable Scientific Knowledge, and Humanity.

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

Events for 2008, sorted by country, then by state, and then by city.
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Note: in addition to the listings on this page, there are also hundreds of "Evolution Weekend 2008" events this Feb. 8- 10. Click Here for more information.

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Title: Darwin Day 2008 - Sydney ( Public )

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Title: Melbourne Darwin Day BBQ ( Public )

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Title: Charles Darwin commemorative picnic ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day 2008, 150 years of research about evolution ( Public )

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Title: 200 th Darwin Day celebration ( Public )

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Title: Dareinism and you ( Public )

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Title: Dareinism and you ( Public )

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Title: Charilaos ( Public )

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Title: Dia de Darwin 2008 ( Public )

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Title: Sergios ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day Celebration ( Public )

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Title: UofA Palaeontological Society's Darwin Day Celebration ( Public )

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Title: Biology 11 Birthday Party ( Private )

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Title: February 2008 Skeptics in the Pub ( Public )

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Title: “Cyborgs of the Past, Present and Future" ( Public )

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Title: The Weakest Missing Link - How not to argue with a creationist ( Public )

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Dinner starts at 7pm please arrive early to place your order so we can start the presentations at 8pm sharp.

The presentations will be followed by a comment and question session.

Presentations by

Mark Robinson - Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle

Dr. Sohail - Darwin's Conflict with his wife and God

Rafi Amar for the USA - The clash of Science and Religion

Darren Kelly – Darren is currently studying Primate Evolution and taxonomy at U of T

Full info of event here:
http://cdrh.humanists.ca/Meetings.html

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Title: Celebrating Darwin! ( Private )

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I am teaching an adult evening course "Charles Darwin and the Discovery of the Natural World" for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. February 12 is the 2nd meeting of the course. In March the spectacular Darwin exhibition co-hosted by the Royal Ontario Museum, the Field Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History will be coming to the ROM For a six month run. We will have a birthday party with cake and a special talk about Darwin's life.

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Title: Darwin Day 2008: Great Transformations ( Public )

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Title: Paulos ( Public )

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Title: Makis ( Public )

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Title: Isaakios ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day: Atheists, Beer, and Books! ( Public )

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Title: Panayotis ( Public )

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Title: II summit on evolution ( Public )

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Title: Ioannis ( Public )

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Title: Georges ( Public )

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Title: Darwin-Tag ( Public )

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Title: NEW AGE SACRAMENTS ( Private )

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Title: Theologos ( Public )

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Title: Halu ( Public )

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Title: Día de Darwin - Biblioteca Ludwig von Mises ( Public )

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Title: Marinos ( Public )

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Title: Nico ( Public )

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Title: Inauguration of an year long celebrations of Darwins Bicentinary ( Public )

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Title: Seminar on Darwin ( Public )

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Title: Lecture - Darwin and the Tree of Life, Professor David Archibald ( Public )

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Title: In Darwin's Footsteps - Quilt Show, O'Sheehan Quilt Gallery ( Public )

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Title: Evoluzione: solo una teoria? ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day Bergamo - seminar on human genetic modification ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day UAAR ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day 2008 Pescara ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day UAAR ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day Ferrara 2008 ( Public )

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Friday 15, 5 p.m.
Siamo ancora darwinisti?
Da L’origine delle specie all’Evo-Devo
intervengono:
Marco Ferraguti, Professore di Evoluzione Biologica all’Università di Milano, Vicepresidente della Società Italiana di Biologia Evolutiva
Alessandro Minelli, Professore di Zoologia all’Università di Padova già Vicepresidente dell’European Society for Evolutionary Biology

Saturday 16, 3-6 p.m.
Laboratorio Evoluzione: quando lo scienziato rientra dai suoi viaggi
conduce:
Marcello Sala
Specialista nella formazione degli educatori in ambito scientifico, autore di numerosi articoli e libri

Scienziati per un’ora: un viaggio nel museo alla scoperta delle scoperte possibili
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Emanuele Serrelli
Pedagogista e formatore, cultore di epistemologia e filosofia della scienza presso l’Università di Milano Bicocca

Sunday 17, 3-6 p.m.
Il codice Darwin
Grande caccia al tesoro per famiglie
a cura di:
Cristina Camattari
Naturalista e collaboratrice del Museo

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Title: " Darwin day " Music,Science,Thought ................. ( Public )

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Title: geodiversità ( Public )

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Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica dell'Università di Firenze con la collaborazione di SISL e UAAR (Unione degli Atei e degli Agnostici Razionalisti)

Martedì 12 febbraio 2008, ore 17.30
Tribuna di Galileo, Via Romana 17, 50125 firenze

Antonello La Vergata, Università di Modena
presenterà CASA DARWIN, di Randal Keynes, Ed. Einaudi 2007

Introduce: Francesco Dessì, Università di Firenze

Intervengono:
Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno, Università di Siena
Aldo Serafini, traduttore di Casa Darwin

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Title: Darwin Day UAAR 2008 - Vicenza ( Public )

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Title: The roots of homo sapiens ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day Una giornata per la scienza ( Public )

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Title: "Perché la medicina ha bisogno di una prospettiva evolutiva" ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day in Milano, Italy ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day UAAR Milano ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day 2008 - Parma ( Public )

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Darwin Day 2008

EVOLUZIONE: prospettive antropologiche, scientifiche e culturali

Giornata di divulgazione scientifica in
occasione delle celebrazioni darwiniane

Venerdì 29 febbraio 2008

Centro Congressi del Comune di Parma
Sala conferenze A
Via Toscana 5/a Parma (Italy)

Info: e.sanvitale@comune.parma.it
ph: +39 0521 207447; +39 0521 539493

Coordina gli interventi Donato Grasso
docente di Etoecologia, Sociobiologia e Zoologia evolutiva - Università di Parma

Ore 10,00

Marco Ferraguti
Università di Milano
Siamo ancora darwinisti?! Storia ed attualità delle teorie di Darwin

Ore 10,45
Gabriele Gentile
Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
I luoghi paradigmatici dell’evoluzione: l’arcipelago delle Isole Galápagos

Ore 11,30
Laura Beani
Università di Firenze
La coda del pavone: un dilemma darwiniano

Ore 12,15
Interventi del pubblico e discussione

Ore 13 Pausa pranzo

Ore 14,30
Giorgio Manzi
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Evoluzione umana: ultime notizie dall’Isola di Flores, Indonesia

Ore 15,15
David Caramelli
Università di Firenze
I Neandertaliani: antenati o cugini?

Ore 16
Davide Pettener
Università di Bologna
La storia genetica delle popolazioni umane

Ore 16,45
Orlando Franceschelli
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Dio, la natura e Darwin

Ore 17,30
Interventi del pubblico e discussione

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Title: Darwin Day UAAR 2008 a Pavia ( Public )

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Title: SCIENZA E TECNICA TRA ENTUSIASMI E PAURE (Public) ( Public )

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3° Darwin Day a CORREGGIO
“SCIENZA E TECNICA TRA ENTUSIASMI E PAURE”
Vecchi schematismi di accettazione semplicistica e di paura irragionevole della scienza ci fanno entrare nel futuro “a marcia indietro”.

Con l’inizio di questo secolo sta maturando una nuova forma di società, una società della conoscenza. È una specie sociale in parte già nuova e in parte capace di suscitare ulteriori, radicali novità. Di fronte a sfide nuove, l’esito favorevole per ciascuno di noi e di coloro che verranno non è scontato: dipenderà dalla nostra capacità di governare la ricerca. Ma la nostra visione del mondo e di noi stessi resta ancora quella tradizionale. Vecchi schematismi ci frenano e ci fanno entrare nel futuro “ a marcia indietro”. S’impone, perciò, un profondo e spregiudicato ripensamento dell’intera cultura della modernità, prendendo le distanze, in generale, da buona parte del nostro modo abituale di pensare. Possiamo, così, individuare una contrapposizione netta da superare risolutamente, quella tra una visione positivistica e una negativistica. In particolare, possiamo articolare queste visioni come veri e propri miti, rispettivamente, tecnofrenici (accettazione semplicistica) e tecnofobici (paura irragionevole).

Incontro pubblico
ore 17.00 Sala Conferenze Palazzo Principi

Conferenza del prof. ANDREA CERRONI, docente di Sociologia della scienza e Società della conoscenza all’Università di Milano Bicocca.

Mattino e al pomeriggio
spettacolo itinerante di animazione per le vie del centro
“Il vaccone geneticamente modificato”
a cura della compagnia teatrale “Gli Spavaldi”.

Cena-simposio , ore 20.00
“Alla scoperta di nuovi sapori, anzi, di antichi”
Prodotti, piatti e specialità enogastronomiche che hanno avuto una evoluzione
sia nelle materie prime che nel modo di cucinarli, e che ora si cerca riscoprire
curando la selezione degli ingredienti e adottando la cura di un tempo, in cucina.

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Title: Medicine in... Evolution ( Public )

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Title: Salerno Darwin Day 2008 ( Public )

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Title: L'evoluzione (IT) [Evolution via natural selection] ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day UAAR Catania ( Public )

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Sabato 9 febbraio, i soci UAAR di Catania, dagli studi di RTM (radio trasmissioni modica) trasmetterenno il loro D.D.
Relatore Dott. Francesco D'Alpa, presenta Marco Blanco, socio UAAR Modica (RG), partecipa Beppe Bertuccelli, referente UAAR Catania.
La trasmissione verrà trasmessa via etere alle 21,30.
Sul web, da giovedì 14 febbraio, si potrà ascoltare per circa un mese. Il tema del D.D. catanese "perchè la chiesa cel'ha con Darwin?" Augurandoci di riconfermare il successo dello scorso anno (tremila ascolti, molti in Germania e negli USA ) auguro a tutti "BUON DARWIN DAY"
Beppe Bertuccelli, UAAR Catania

Saturday February 9, members of Catania UAAR kinds of studies RTM (radio transmissions modica) trasmetterenno their DD
Dr Rapporteur. Francesco D'Alpa presents Marco Blanco, socio UAAR Modica (RG), participates Beppe Bertuccelli, contact person UAAR Catania.
The transmission will be transmitted over the air to 21.30.
On the web, on Thursday February 14, you can hear for about a month. The theme of D.D. Catania "because the church cel'ha with Darwin?" We hope to reconfirm the success of last year (three thousand ratings, many in Germany and the USA) hope to all "GOOD DARWIN DAY"
Beppe Bertuccelli, UAAR Catania

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Title: Serata Darwin Day ( Public )

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Title: Darwin Day 2008 in Pisa: "Darwin and the Ethology" ( Public )

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Title: Il darwinismo tra scienza, religione e politica ( Public )

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The lecture by Prof.Giulio Lanzavecchia, Professor Emeritus at the University Of Insubria, Varese (Lombardy, Italy) will concern Darwinism and science and the present drift of religion (Catholicism and the Vatican State)trying to embed science and rationality into its scope.
Politics, always weaker and weaker in Italy, is prone to almost any vatican statement; with the goal of getting more consensus, power and trust from voters, disillusioned from the poor scenario of italian politics and politicians.

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Title: Cosmo ( Public )

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