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San Diego State University, College of Arts and Letters, 150 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Impact on the Humanities and the Social Sciences

 

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Conference Chair:
Dr. Mark Wheeler
mark.wheeler@sdsu.edu

 

 

 

Last Update: 11/18/09

Graduate Student Sessions

November 22, 2009

Open to the Public!

Keynote Speaker

Philip Clayton, Claremont Graduate University

Presenters and Schedule

9:00-10:00
Havstad, Joyce (UCSD) "Mechanism and Natural Selection" AL105

Lee, Peter (CSU, Northridge) "The Great Auk: Extinction, Evolution, and Education in Late Nineteenth Century America" AL105

10:10-11:10
Brigham, Matthew (University of Pittsburgh) "Darwin and Public Memory: How the Origins Aesthetic and Moral Rhetoric Has Been Forgotten in Contemporary Usages of Darwin" AL105

Bailin, Deborah (University of Maryland) "Jack London's Before Adam: A Case Study of Darwins Influence on Literary Naturalism" AL105

11:20-11:50
Stello, Pam (UC Berkeley) "Darwin and the Gender Economies of Two Cultures" AL105

12:00-1:15
Lunch

1:30-2:30
Clayton, Philip (Keynote Speaker) "Taking Stock 150 Years After Origin: What Epigenesis and System Biology Suggest About Culture and Philosophy" AL105

2:40-3:40
Racine, Valerie (University of Western Ontario) "From Mivart to Gould: the Limited Role of Natural Selection" AL105

Brown, Matthew (Professor, University of Texas at Dallas) "Dewey and Darwin" AL105

Rief, John (University of Pittsburgh) "Darwin's Argument Inventions and Innovations: Implications Across the Disciplines of Rhetoric and Argumentation Theory" AL102

Whaley, Joshua (Colorado State University) "An Ecological Perspective on Behavior of Political Values in Social Space"  AL102

3:50-4:50
Immarino, Darren (Clairmont University) "Evolution, Emergence and Theism" AL105

Gabriel, Jazmine (University of Oregon) "Hans Jonas, Darwin, and Abstract Art: Expressing the Materiality of Inwardness" AL105

Pollard, Len (SDSU) "Everything and the Phenomena Too" AL102

Favela, Louie (SDSU) "On the Origin of Consciousness" AL102

Organized by Len Pollard (SDSU, MA student), Darren Iammarino (Claremont Graduate University, Ph.D. student, SDSU alumnus), and Louis Favela (SDSU, MA student)

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