Showing posts with label evowog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evowog. Show all posts

Friday, November 2, 2018

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Does Star Trek help explain evolution? Come find out! Mohammed Noor speaks on this subject in Tuscaloosa later this month. The lecture is free, and open to the public. ffor more information:

http://evolution.ua.edu/2018-19-series.html

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Great lecture last night by Prosanta Chakrabarty  about teaching evolution to everyone. He is a great speaker, and his PowerPoint slides were amusingly cheesy. Lots of good ways of explaining various abstruse concepts. You can find him on YouTube; he has done a bunch of TED talks.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

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The next evolution lecture  at the University of Alabama:


This looks like a really fascinating topic; you shouldn't miss it if you are anywhere near Tuscaloosa on October 4. As always,  the talk is free and open to the public. There is convenient parking near the lecture hall.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

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The University of Alabama's ALLELE series of lectures on topics related to evolution (http://evolution.ua.edu/) announces  the first lecture of the spring 2018 semester: February 8, 2018: Bernard Crespi, “Where Darwin Meets Freud:  The Evolutionary and Psychological Genetics of Human Cognitive Architecture.”​ the lecture is at 7:30 PM, in 1011 North Lawn Hall, UA campus, Tuscaloosa. The talk is free and open to the public.

Monday, March 27, 2017

Evolution lecture in Tuscaloosa



Casey Dunn, on the importance of poorly known taxa. Thursday night, University of Alabama, North Lawn Hall, 7:30 PM, free and open to the public.

http://evolution.ua.edu/2016-17-series.html/

This is part of ALLELE, the University of Alabama's long-running series of lectures by internationally acclaimed scientists on all different aspects of evolution. Many of these lectures are available on iTunes U, and parts of some of them appear in the new video series Speaking Evolution http://www.speakingevolution.org/

Monday, April 4, 2016

The evolution of birds


Julia Clarke, the evolution of birds, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 7:30 PM Thursday, April 14. Free and open to the public, Ferguson Center Ballroom.

http://evolution.as.ua.edu/

Online free lecture by Clarke on the Origin of Birds http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/great-transitions-origin-birds

Friday, March 25, 2016

Evolution lecture March 31

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. William “Lee” McCorkle Jr., a cognitive and evolutionary anthropologist, will present a lecture on the evolution of religious studies on March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Ballroom on The University of Alabama campus.

The lecture is part of the Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution, or ALLELE, series at UA and is titled “Religion, a Cultural Virus: Evolutionary Approaches in the Historical, Anthropological, and Scientific Study of Religion.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

[from a news story by Dr. Chris Lynn]

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Lecture tonight in Tuscaloosa: why we reject the theory of evolution

I might have mentioned this before here, but not recently. 7:30 PM tonight, biology auditorium, University of Alabama, free and open to the public. Chris Mooney, Washington Post columnist, talking about why Americans reject evolution.

http://evolution.as.ua.edu/the-2014-2015-series/#Mooney

Sunday, March 16, 2014

April 10-Evolution lecture

WORLD-RENOWNED COSMOLOGIST LAWRENCE KRAUSS


A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING



Professor Krauss will speak on this subject

At the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Thursday, April 10, 7:30 pm, Biology Auditorium


The lecture is FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC


For more info:

http://evolution.as.ua.edu/information-about-the-2013-14-speakers-performers/

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Evolution lecture tomorrow

James Costa of the Highlands Biological Station and Western Carolina
University will be speaking on "Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Species
Notebook' of 1855-1859," at 7:30 p.m. on March 13, in the Biology
Building Auditorium (room 127) on the University of Alabama campus in
Tuscaloosa. The lecture is free and open to the public.

His presentation is in the 2013-2014 Alabama Lectures on Life's
Evolution, known as ALLELE. The lecture series, in its eighth year, is
supported by UA's College of Arts and Sciences and various academic
departments at UA.

For further information, visit:
http://www.as.ua.edu/evolution/

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Save April 10th for the Universe

Lawrence Krauss, internationally known lecturer & cosmologist, will be speaking about how the Universe came from Nothing. Lecture free & open to the public, Thursday, Apr. 10, 7:30 pm, UA Biology auditorium.

http://evolution.as.ua.edu/information-about-the-2013-14-speakers-performers/#Krauss

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Evolution lecture next Thursday in Tuscaloosa

http://evolution.as.ua.edu/schedule-of-talks/

James Costa, Evolution & Alfred Russel Wallace's species notebook, 1855-1859, Tuscaloosa Alabama

Thursday, March 13, 7:30 pm, UA Biology auditorium, free & open to the public.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Evolution lecture tomorrow night

http://evolution.as.ua.edu/schedule-of-talks/

Tuscaloosa: African genomics, human origins, disease

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Monday, December 30, 2013

Evolution lecture in Tuscaloosa

Gregory Retallack of the
University of Oregon will be speaking on "Global Cooling by Grassland
Soils in the Geological Past and Near Future" at 7:30 p.m. on January
16, in the Biology Building Auditorium (room 127) on the University of
Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The lecture is free and open to the
public.

His presentation is in the 2013-2014 Alabama Lectures on Life's
Evolution, known as ALLELE. The lecture series, in its eighth year, is
supported by UA’s College of Arts and Sciences and various academic
departments at UA.

For further information, visit:
http://www.as.ua.edu/evolution/