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Sunday November 22, 2009 |
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08:00-09:00 |
Breakfast |
Foyer of Alumni Hall,
1st Floor Victoria College |
09:00-10:00 |
Keynote Address: Alison Pearn (Darwin Correspondence Project)
Cast of Thousands: Charles Darwin's Life in Letters |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
10:00-12:00 |
Symposium I: Gender, Evolution, and Sexual Selection
Chair: Joan Steigerwald
(Coffee/Tea Service Provided) |
Alumni Hall
Victoria College Room 112 |
10:00-10:40 |
Lisa Lloyd (Indiana University)
Bias in Evolutionary Explanations of the Female Orgasm |
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10:40-11:20 |
Marlene Zuk (University of California, Riverside)
Sex and the Scala Naturae |
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11:20-12:00 |
Erika Milam (University of Maryland, College Park)
Negotiating Choice: Animal Minds and Human Instincts
in the History of Sexual Selection |
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12:00-12:30 |
Lunch Break |
Foyer of Alumni Hall,
1st Floor Victoria College |
12:45-13:45 |
Session 1.i: Reassessing Themes and Sources
Chair: Michael Cournoyea |
Victoria College Room 115 |
12:45-13:15 |
Scott Sinclair (St. Louis University)
Three American Philosophers’ Response to Darwin |
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13:15-13:45 |
Fred Wilson (University of Toronto)
Replacing an Old Paradigm: Intelligent Design and Natural Selection; Hume, Mill, and Darwin |
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12:45-14:15 |
Session 1.ii: Social Perceptions
Chair: Jaipreet Virdi |
Victoria College Room 101 |
12:45-13:15 |
Eleanor Louson (University of Toronto)
Nature, Projected: Evolutionary Theory in Wildlife Documentaries |
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13:15-13:45 |
David Smillie (University of Toronto)
Evolution and Popular Culture: Darwin on the Box |
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13:45-14:15 |
Ian Hesketh (Queen’s University)
Of Apes and Ancestors: Myth and the Cultural Memory of the Oxford Debate of 1860 |
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12:45-14:15 |
Session 1.iii: Species and Sexuality
Chair: Sebastián Gil-Riaño |
Victoria College Room 212 |
12:45-13:15 |
Masoud Hassanpour Golakani (Macquarie University)
The Spiral Valve Intestine of the Australian Lungfish, a Primitive Characteristic |
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13:15-13:45 |
Eugene S. Morton (Hemlock Hill Field Station)
Sexual Conflict and Brood Desertion in Blue-Headed Vireos: How Females Won |
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13:45-14:15 |
Jerome Goldsten (San Francisco Clinical Research Center)
The Neurobiology of Sexual Orientation: A Tribute to Charles Darwin |
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14:30-16:30 |
Symposium II: Ecology
Chair: Richard Landon
(Coffee/Tea Service Provided) |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
14:30-15:10 |
Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University)
Darwin and Ecology |
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15:10-15:50 |
Gene Cittadino (New York University)
Reflections on Darwin and Ecology: The History of a Tenuous Relationship |
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15:50-16:30 |
Gregory Cooper (Washington and Lee University)
The Darwinian Character of Evolutionary Ecology |
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16:40-17:40 |
Keynote Address: James Moore (University of Cambridge)
Darwin’s Progress and the Problem of Slavery |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
18:00-19:30 |
Special Presentation
Re: Design: A Dramatisation of the Correspondence between Charles Darwin and Asa Gray (Produced by the Menagerie Theatre Company) |
Isabel Bader Theatre |
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Monday November 23, 2009 |
08:00-09:00 |
Breakfast |
Foyer of Alumni Hall,
1st Floor Victoria College |
09:00-11:00 |
Symposium III: Theistic Evolution
Chair: Michael Bourgeois
(Coffee/Tea Service Included) |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
09:00-09:40 |
Bernard Lightman (York University)
Christian Evolutionists in the U.S., 1860-1900 |
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09:40-10:20 |
Michael Ruse (Florida State University)
Are Science and Religion Compatible and If So, Why? |
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10:20-11:00 |
Denis O. Lamoureux (University of Alberta)
Darwinian Theological Insights: Toward an Intellectually Fulfilled Theism |
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11:15-12:45 |
Session 2.i: Acceptances and Denials
Chair: David Smillie |
Northrop Frye 119 |
11:15-11:45 |
Fermin Fulda (University of Toronto)
Against Fodor Against Darwinism |
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11:45-12:15 |
Stefaan Blanke (Ghent University)
"A million guesses strung together:" Creationist Denial of the Science Behind Evolutionary Theory |
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12:15-12:45 |
Daniel A. Newman (University of Toronto)
The Rhetoric of Probability: How Darwin Overcame the Argument from Design |
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11:15-12:45 |
Session 2.ii: Historical Receptions
Chair: Jaipreet Virdi |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
11:15-11:45 |
John Court (University of Toronto)
Darwinian Evolution's First Fifty Years of Impact
on Botany at the University of Toronto. 1859 to 1909 |
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11:45-12:15 |
David M. Steffes (Arizona State University)
Population Ecology and Evolution: Darwin's Origin and the
Modern Synthesis of the 1940s and 50s |
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12:15-12:45 |
Kevin Pent (York University)
Julian Huxley's 'Apogee of Species': Darwin's 'Man' Comes of Age |
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11:15-12:45 |
Session 2.iii: A Brave New Darwin
Chair: Chris Belanger |
Northrop Frye 003 |
11:15-11:45 |
Peter Fedor (Comenius University)
Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Species Identification |
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11:45-12:15 |
Wybo Houkes (Edinhoven University of Technology)
Hypothesis Testing in Artefact Evolution |
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12:15-12:45 |
Laura Landen (Queen's University)
Natural Selection, The Intentional Stance, and Mirror Neuron Research |
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12:45-13:30 |
Lunch Break |
Foyer of Alumni Hall,
1st Floor, Victoria College |
13:40-15:40 |
Symposium IV: Species
Chair: Ronald de Sousa |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
13:40-1420 |
John Beatty (University of British Columbia)
Darwin on Species |
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14:20-15:00 |
Kevin de Queiroz (Natural Museum of National History; Smithsonian)
Charles Darwin and the Evolution of the Species Concept |
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15:00-15:40 |
Marc Ereshefsky (University of Calgary)
Mystery of Mysteries: Darwin and the Species Problem |
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15:45-16:45 |
Keynote Address: Michael Ruse (Florida State University)
Is Darwinism Past its “Sell-By” Date? |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112
Coffee/Tea Service Provided |
16:45-18:15 |
Session 3.i: Naturalism
Chair: Curtis Forbes |
Emmanuel College 119 |
16:45-17:15 |
Jason Marsh (University of Western Ontario)
Darwinism and Divine Hiddenness |
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17:15-17:45 |
Khaldoun Sweis (Olive-Harvey College)
Philosophical Paradoxs of Darwin Evolutionary Naturalism |
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17:45-18:15 |
Maarten Boudry (Ghent University)
Methodological Naturalism as an Intrinsic Property of Science:
A Grist to the Mill of Intelligent Design Theory |
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16:45-18:15 |
Session 3.ii: Reconstructing Darwinism
Chair: Erich Weidenhammer |
Victoria College 115 |
16:45-17:15 |
Peter Gildenhuys (Lafayette College)
Putting the Struggle for Existence to Work |
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17:15-17:45 |
Katharine Browne (University of Toronto)
A Darwinian theory of Games |
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17:45-18:15 |
Sarah Winter (University of Connecticut Storrs)
Species as Value: Biosemiotics in Darwin's Origin and Saussurian Linguistics |
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16:45-18:15 |
Session 3.iii: Applying Darwinism
Chair: Mike Stuart |
Northrop Frye 003 |
16:45-17:15 |
Marion Blute (University of Toronto at Mississauga)
Darwinism in the Social Sciences Today |
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17:15-17:45 |
Howard M. Huynh (Acadia University)
In the Footsteps of Darwin: The Value of Scientific Collecting in
Biodiversity Research and Conservation |
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17:45-18:15 |
Joel Velasco (Stanford University)
The Tree of Life: From Darwin to Today |
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18:15-19:15 |
Keynote Address: Evelyn Fox Keller
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Darwin as the Newton of a Blade of Grass |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
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Tuesday November 24, 2009 |
08:00-09:00 |
Breakfast |
Foyer of Alumni Hall,
1st Floor Victoria College |
09:00-11:00 |
Symposium V: Taxonomy
Chair: TBA
(Coffee/Tea Service Included) |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
09:00-09:40 |
Mary Winsor (University of Toronto)
"Classification is a Census:" Huxley's Private Quarrel
with Darwin and its Public Consequences |
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09:40-10:20 |
Kevin Padian (University of California, Berkeley)
What is "Evidence for Evolution" to an Evolutionist? |
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10:20-11:00 |
Richard A. Richards (University of Alabama)
Context and Evidence in the History of Science |
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11:15-12:45 |
Session 4.i: Ancient Debates, Ancient Roots
Chair: Charissa Varma |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
11:15-11:45 |
P. William Hughes (Carleton University)
Aristotle contra Democritus: Anticipation of the Neutralist-Selectionist
Debate and a Haphazard Route Back to Darwin |
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11:45-12:15 |
Andreas Avgousti (Columbia University)
Pre-modern, Modern and Natural Understandings of Man:
Plato, Hobbes, and Evolutionary Theory |
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12:15-12:45 |
Robin Zebrowski (Beloit College)
The Evolution of Experience and the Experience of Evolution:
Revisiting Dewey's Analysis of the Influence of Darwin on Philosophy |
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11:15-12:45 |
Session 4.ii: The Devil’s Chaplain
Chair: David Smillie |
The Coop, 1st Floor Brennan Hall,
81 St. Mary’s St. |
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11:15-11:45 |
Peter Sachs Collopy (University of Pennsylvania)
Naturalizing Calvinism: The Darwinism and Anti-Evolutionism
of George Frederick Wright |
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11:45-12:15 |
Stephen D. Snobelen (University of King’s College)
Theological Themes in Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) |
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12:15-12:45 |
Christopher diCarlo (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
The Zing of Perceived Control: Memetic Equilibrium
and the Evolution of Religion |
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11:15-12:45 |
Session 4.iii: Laws of Evolutionary Economics
Chair: Mike Thicke |
Victoria College Chapel
Victoria College Room 213 |
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11:15-11:45 |
André Ariew (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Darwin’s Invisible Hand? |
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11:45-12:15 |
Eugene Earnshaw-Whyte (University of Toronto)
Breaking the Bonds of Biology: Natural Selection
in Nelson and Winter's Evolutionary Economics |
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12:15-12:45 |
Chris Haufe (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Darwin’s “Laws” |
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12:45-13:30 |
Lunch Break |
Foyer of Alumni Hall,
1st Floor Victoria College |
13:40-15:40 |
Symposium VI: Evolution and Development
Chair: Jean-Bernard Caron |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
13:40-14:20 |
Manfred Laubichler (Arizona State University)
From Boveri to Davidson and Back |
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14:20-15:00 |
Jane Maienschein (Arizona State University)
From Epigenesis to Epigenetics and Back |
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15:00-15:40 |
Michael Dietrich (Dartmouth College)
From Goldschmidt to Gould and Back |
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Session 5.i: It's All in the Mind
Chair: Eugene Earnshaw-Whyte |
Victoria College Chapel
Victoria College Room 213
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15:50-16:20 |
Byron Kaldis (The Hellenic Open University)
Species-Qua-Individuals and the Modularity of the Mind: The Saving Grace for Humans |
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16:20-16:50 |
Alain Ducharme & Sheldon Chow (The University of Western Ontario
Keeping Darwin in Mind |
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16:50-17:20 |
Steve DiPaola (Simon Fraser University)
Darwin, Creativity, and Evoluionary Programming |
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15:50-17:20 |
Session 5.ii: International Receptions
Chair: Ari Gross |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
15:50-16:20 |
Paranbes Nath (Calcutta University)
Darwin and India |
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16:20-16:50 |
Alex Levine & Adriana Nova (University of South Florida)
The Fate of Darwinian Analogies in Latin America:
The Reception of Darwinism in 19th Century Argentina |
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16:50-17:20 |
Nolan Heie (Queen’s University)
Albert Kalthoff, Entwicklung and the "World View of Modern Man" |
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15:50-16:50 |
Session 5.iii: Fitness
Chair: Ellie Louson |
The Coop, 1st Floor Brennan Hall,81 St. Mary's St |
15:50-16:20 |
Marshall Abrams (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Individuals have no Fitnesses if Fitness Differences Cause Evolution |
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16:20-16:50 |
Kent A. Peacock (University of Lethbridge)
The Three Faces of Fitness |
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15:50-16:50 |
Session 5.iv: Language and Logic
Chair: S.J. Patterson |
Northrop Frye 003 |
15:50-16:20 |
Alexander G. Yushchenko (Kharkov State Polytechnic University)
Logics & Ethics of Evolution from the Point of View of Evolutionary Theology |
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16:20-16:50 |
Justin Humphreys (New School for Social Research)
Darwin on Language |
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17:20-18:20 |
Keynote Address: Brian K. Hall (Dalhousie University)
Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Embryology and Evo-Devo |
Alumni Hall,
Victoria College Room 112 |
18:20-19:00 |
Break |
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19:00-19:45 |
Keynote Address: Spencer Barrett (University of Toronto)
Charles Darwin and Current Perspectives on the Evolution and Function of Plant Sexual Diversity |
Giovanni Room, 2nd Floor
89 Chestnut St. |
20:00-22:30 |
Gala Celebratory Dinner
Origin at 150: A Toast to Charles Darwin |
Colony Grande Ballroom
89 Chestnut St. |
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