Audio–Only Broadcast – Celebrating 150 Years of Darwin's THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: Variation
Jonathan Weiner
Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009 at 7:00 pm – 333 Science II - Live Audio Broadcast
Professor Jonathan Weiner, author of Beak of the Finch, will deliver the second lecture in the "150th Anniversary of the Origin of Species" Series hosted by The Reading Odyssey and the Darwin Facebook Project. This lecture is the second of five lectures in the Fall of 2009 to celebrate Darwin's seminal publication. Join fellow listeners at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments and sociability. This is a live audio-only broadcast from Columbia University. A Q&A by e-mail will follow.Weiner's books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and many other honors. While working on His Brother's Keeper, he was writer-in-residence at Rockefeller University. Now he teaches science writing at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Reading Odyssey is a nonprofit dedicated to helping adults re-engage their intellectual curiosity through reading and discussing some of the best books and ideas.
Sponsors of the series include National Geographic, Citrix Online and their HiDef Conferencing Division, Campaign Monitor, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, National Center for Science Education, Squarespace, Creation The Movie, and The New York Academy of Sciences.
For more information on our Darwin activities, visit www.Darwin150.com
Cosponsored By:
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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