Darwin Day 2013
We are excited to host Nobel Prize winner Dr. Camille Parmesan as our keynote speaker, relating evolution and climate change. We also have a teacher workshop, movies, a cake contest, a T-shirt design contest, a talk by a postdoctoral scholar about effective science communication, and even a six-piece bassoon concert inspired by Darwin's last book.
| Mon., Feb. 11 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | Darwin Day Tennessee Information Booth | Pedestrian Walkway or UC booth (if rain) |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Video: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life (2009) | Hodges Library, room 213 | |
| 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Video: Monkey Trial (2003) | ||
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Video: Meltdown: A Global Warming Journey (2006) | ||
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Teachers' Workshop | Knox County STEM Academy, 401 Henley St. | |
| Tues., Feb. 12 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | Darwin Day Tennessee Information Booth | Pedestrian Walkway or UC booth (if rain) |
| 11:00 am - 12:50 pm | Video: Galapagos: The Islands that Changed the World (2007) | Hodges Library Auditorium | |
| 1:00 pm - 2:35 pm | Video: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) | ||
| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Brownbag: Dr. Ezra Markowitz | Dabney Hall, room 488 | |
| 6:15 pm - 9:45 pm | Merchandise Booth | University Center Auditorium | |
| 7:00 pm - 7:15 pm | Announce T-shirt Design Contest Winner | ||
| 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Music for Earthworms Concert | ||
| Wed., Feb. 13 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | Darwin Day Tennessee Information Booth | Pedestrian Walkway or UC booth (if rain) |
| 11:00 am - 12:55 pm | Video: What Darwin Never Knew (2009) | Hodges Library, room 213 | |
| 1:00 pm - 2:55 pm | Video: Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (2008) | ||
| 6:15 pm - 9:45 pm | Merchandise Booth | University Center Auditorium | |
| 7:00 pm - 7:15 pm | Announce Cake Contest Winner | ||
| 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Keynote: Dr. Camille Parmesan |
Support
Darwin Day Tennessee thanks these sponsors for their support: UTK Central Program Council the departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Psychology, Anthropology, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Biochemistry & Cellular & Molecular Biology, and Microbiology, NIMBioS, and WUTK. If you would like to sponsor us, directly or by working with us to help enhance the broader impacts of a grant, please email us.
Volunteer!
Interested in helping plan this year's Darwin Day or want to help during the week of the events (February 11-13)? Please get in touch with darwindaytennessee@gmail.com. Participation is open to ALL university students and faculty regardless of department.
About Darwin Day
An early diagram of a phylogenetic tree from Darwin's notebooks.
Darwin Day in Knoxville, Tennessee is a volunteer-run event dedicated to informing the public about evolution and its importance as a unifying concept in all of biology. Our goal is to disseminate factual information, in the context of a non-confrontational and rational discussion based on empirical evidence without pre-conceived ideological agendas or uncritical faith in the opinions of scientists, politicians, or clerics. In a state with past and recent legislative efforts to introduce faith-based ideologies into the science classrooms of public schools, these efforts are particularly important.
We sponsored the first Darwin Day event on February 12th of 1997, the 188th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin. Since this first Darwin Day, the annual celebration has grown to include an annual keynote speaker, a teacher's workshop, and other events.
Join Us
You can join our group by registering with the Darwin Day listserv using this link:
http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/darwin-day-tn.html
After signing up you will receive email updates about the organization. You will also be able to participate in online discussions about evolution, science, and education.
You can also join us on Facebook, by joining the Darwin Day at the University of Tennessee group, or becoming friends with Chuck Darwin.