Click on the Darwin Festival Year below for listing of past presenters. 

 

NAME

TITLE

DATE

2000

 

 

Grotzinger, John

Stromatolite Morphogenesis

2/14/00

Palumbi, Stephen

Right Before Your Eyes: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolution

2/14/00

Beattie, David

Modern Vaccine Strategies For An Ancient Disease

2/15/00

Morgan, Lynn M.

Cross-Cultural Perspectives On Human Embryology

2/15/00

Pierce, Naomi E.

Nabokov's Lycaenidae: Cradle-Robbing, Meat-Eating, and Ant-Loving Caterpillars

2/16/00

Wrangham, Richard W.

Chimpanzee Cultures And Human Evolution

2/16/00

Lambalot, Katherine

Drinking and Driving: A Survivor's Story

2/16/00

Christianson, Gale E.

Global Warming: The Evolution Of An Idea

2/17/00

Sulloway, Frank, J.

Birth Order, Family Dynamics, And Creative Lives: From Darwinian Evolution To World History

2/17/00

2001

 

 

Hauser, Marc

To Understand The Evolution Of The Human Mind, Don't Study Humans: The Problem Of Language And Number

2/12/01

Pendlebury, William

Aging, Dementia, And Alzheimer's Disease

2/12/01

Zaichik, Mark (moderator)

Media, Democracy And Public Opinion: The Good Earth (a panel discussion on global warming)

with: Eric Alterman, Paul S.Appelbaum, Eric Mazur, Michael McElroy, Thomas E. Patterson, and John F. Tierney

2/12/01

Sanchez, Harold

Darwin's Illness

2/13/01

Jackson, Bruce

Find Your Roots With Forensic DNA Science

2/13/01

Southworth, Maurice

Inteins - The Discovery, Explorations, And Novel Use Of A New 'Species' Of Protein

2/14/01

Annas, George

Should We Use The New Genetics To Take Human Evolution Into Our Own Hands

2/14/01

DeMaria, Alfred

Birds, Mosquitoes, Horses, And Humans: What Happens When An Infectious Disease Really Does Emerge

2/15/01

Rinker, H. Bruce

Darwin In The Treetops: Evolution In The Emerging Science Of Canopy Ecology

2/15/01

Newman, Dava

Human Spaceflight: From Mir To Mars

2/16/01

Schwartz, Joel

Such Intense Delight: How The Marine Chronometer Influenced Development Of The Theory Of Evolution

2/16/01

Franks, C. Eben

Mud, Molecules, And Mass-Specs: Paleoclimate Research

2/16/01

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2002

 

 

Tapley, David

A Radical View Of Symbiosis

2/11/02

Davis, Mike (moderator)

Mercury Rising – Learning About The Detrimental Effects Of Mercury On The Environment And Human Health 

with: Edward Bailey, Jane Bright, Mark Pokras, and

Elizabeth Saunders

2/11/02

Ewald, Paul

Catching On To What's Catching: The Startling Scope of Infectious Diseases

2/12/02

Danielson, Bill

The Wild Side Of Western Mass

2/12/02

Seielstad, Mark

Genetic Archeology And The Impact Of Culture On Human Variation

2/12/02

Schneider, Christopher

On The Origin Of Species: Did Darwin Have It Right?

2/13/02

Cullen, James L. 

How We Use The Ooze: Using Microfossils In North Atlantic Deep-Sea Sediments To Document Quaternary Climate Variability

2/13/02

Spelke, Elizabeth

What Makes Humans Smart? Core Knowledge And Combinatorial Capacity

2/13/02

Crompton, Alfred W.

When Is A Mammal A Mammal? New Evidence On Mammalian Origins

2/14/02

Kates, Robert W. 

Sustainability Science: Meeting Human Needs, Preserving Planet Life Supports

2/14/02

Case, Susan

Niebuhr, David

Lessons From Darwin, A Conversation About Science Education

2/14/02

Halpern, Sue

Doing Science On The Wing: Monarch Butterflies And How We Learn

2/15/02

Klassen, David

Investigations Of Frosts And Clouds On Mars

2/15/02

2003

 

 

Guild Players Touring Company

The Sandwalk

2/10/03

Jaenisch, Rudolf

Nuclear Cloning And Reprogramming Of The Genome

2/11/03

Primack, Richard

Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological And Biogeographical Comparison

2/11/03

Etter, Ron

Last Frontier: The Deep Sea – Its Extraordinarily Rich And Unusual Fauna

2/12/03

Hanken, James

Biodiversity In Crisis: The Science Of Amphibian Declines

2/12/03

Spelke, Elizabeth

Core Knowledge

2/12/03

Janes, Kenneth

The Search For Planets - And Life - Beyond The Solar System

2/13/03

Beatty, Susan

Of Earth, Wind And Fire: Disturbance Rules

2/13/03

Turner, J. Scott

Extended Organisms, Emergent Physiology And The Evolutionary Biology Of Gaia

2/14/03

Gibbons, Michael

The Tales Bones Tell

2/14/03

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2004

 

 

Stone, Lori

More Than Words Can Say: Language And Attachment Style

2/9/04

Pepperberg, Irene

In Search Of King Solomon’s Ring: Communication And Cognition In Grey Parrots

2/9/04

Kricher, John

Darwin, Galapagos, And Wallace

2/9/04

Selavka, Carl

Don’t Trust CSI – Life In A Real Crime Lab

2/10/04

Tattersall, Ian

Becoming Human

2/10/04

Ritvo, Harriet

The Dawn Of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, And The Victorian Environment

2/11/04

Urton, Gary

Writing In Binary Code In The Incan Quipas

2/11/04

Teicher, Martin

Childhood Abuse And Brain Development From A Darwinian Perspective

2/12/04

Turner, B. L.

Integrated Land-Change Science And The Southern Yucatan

2/12/04

Leckie, Mark

Linkages Between Tectonics,  Climate Change, And Biotic Evolution: The Oceanic Anoxic Events Of The Mid-Cretaceous

2/13/04

Kornfield, Irv

African Cichlid Fishes: Darwin Would Be Proud

2/13/04

2005

 

 

Mires, Ann Marie

Integrating Technology In The Location And Analysis Of Clandestine Graves

2/14/05

Livingstone, Margaret

Vision And Art

2/14/05

Costanza, Robert

Ecological Economics: Reintegrating The Study of Humans and the Rest of Nature to Create a Sustainable and Desirable Future

2/15/05

Hoffman, Paul F.

Did a Global Glaciation (Snowball Earth) Light the Fuse for The Cambrian Explosion?

2/15/05

Johnson, Arthur

Preparing For and Responding To Biological Agent Threats

2/16/05

Delissio, Lisa

Cultural And Biological Diversity In Malaysian Borneo

2/16/05

Bhattacharya, Madhumita

Do Bumblebees Cross Roads? The Impact Of Habitat Fragmentation On Bumblebee Movement In A Temperate Suburban Habitat

2/17/05

Waller, William

Cosmic Evolution From The Galaxies To The Galapagos

2/17/05

Edwards, Scott

The Evolution of Birds Through the Lens Of DNA

2/18/05

Costa, James T.

One Long Argument: A Guide To The Philosophical Structure Of Darwin’s Origin Of Species

2/18/05

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2006

 

 

Curry, William

The Geological Record of Ocean Circulation and Climate

4/10/06

Heinrich, Bernd

Mind of the Raven

4/10/06

Pedersen, Judith

Marine Bioinvasions: Ecological Impacts and Evolutionary Consequences

2/14/06

Lewontin, Richard C.

Genomania

2/14/06

Mikkelsen, Tarjei

Extreme Geneology: Sequencing the Chimpanzee Genome

2/14/06

Scott, Elizabeth

Are We Too Clean? Hygiene Myths and Realities

2/15/06

Crompton, Alfred W.

Parallel Evolution In Australian Mammals

2/15/06

Skomal, Gregory

Jaws Revisited: The Great White Shark of Naushon Island

2/15/06

Clark, William

Science and Technology for Sustainable Development

2/16/06

Gleiser, Marcelo

Thoughts on Life and Design, Here And Elsewhere in the Cosmos

2/16/06

Rieseberg, Loren

Plant Species and Speciation

2/17/06

Epstein, Paul

Health, Ecological, and Economic Dimensions of Climate Instability

2/17/06

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2007

Philip Reilly

DNA Forensics: 1985-2025

2/12/07

Ksenija Borojevic

Terra And Silva In The Pannonian Plain

2/12/07

Brad Hubeny

Paleoclimate Variability in New England and the Midwest as Recorded by Mud

2/13/07

Lehrer Singh

The Role Of Vocal Emotion In Early Language Learning

2/13/07

Andrea Bogomolni

Marine Mammals: Sentinels of our Ecology

2/13/07

Joseph Ayers

Building Brains For Underwater Robots

2/15/07

Sucharita Gopal

The Eternal Triangle: Science, People And Public Policy In Managing And Sustaining Marine Areas

2/15/07

Alfred DeMaria Jr.

Justifying Insecticiding? Mosquitoes, Viruses, Human Disease and the Environment In Massachusetts

2/16/07

Benjamin Rosenthal

Our Pathogens, Ourselves: Evolutionary Responses To Human Ecology And Agriculture

2/16/07

Owen Gingerich

Is Pluto A Planet?

4/09/07

David  Robinson

Seeing The Forest For The Seas: Recent Approaches To Locating Submerged Settlements In Southern New England

4/25/07

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2008

Alan M. Young

Down Under – Unique Mammals And Birds Of Australia And New Zealand

2/11/08

David E. Fastovsky Catastrophic Extinction of the Dinosaurs, Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, 65.5 Million Years Ago 2/11/08

Gene R. H. Fry