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Overview

Date Venue Event Details
Jan 22-24 MIT Darwin Bicentennial Symposium Symposium website
Feb 2 - Mar 28 Houghton Library, Amy Lowell Room "There is grandeur in this view of life": The Origin of Species at 150 Exhibition at the Houghton Library (Details)
Feb 6 - May 22 Cabot Library, Main Floor "Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution" Exhibition by Janet Browne's history of science class
Feb 9-13 Sci Ctr Lobby HUBSS/OEBug Evolution Poster Exhibition View student created posters on interesting aspects of evolution!
Feb 12 Harvard campus Darwin Day! See schedule below
Feb 14 Harvard Museum of Natural History One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin Family program and booksigning (Details - requires museum admission, free with Harvard ID)
Feb 15 Harvard Museum of Natural History An Afternoon with Charles Darwin Family program by Andrew Berry (Details - requires museum admission, free with Harvard ID)
Feb 23 Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street Darwin and the Consciousness of Others 6 - 8 pm. Lecture by Gillian Beer (Cambridge University), organized by the Humanities Center.
Feb 26 Geological Lecture Hall (Museum building) Evolution in the Post Genomic Age Lecture by Pardis Sabeti (Details)
Mar 5 Geological Lecture Hall (Museum building) Survival of the Swiftest, Smartest, or Fattest? Human Evolution 150 years after Darwin Lecture by Daniel Lieberman (Details)

Events on Feb 12, 2009

Time Venue Event Details
10 am onwards Around campus Origin of Species Read-a-thon The whole book, read out loud in multiple locations.
10-11:30 am Harvard Hall 202 'Understanding Darwinism' class Taught by Prof Janet Browne and Dr Andrew Berry (Open to public)
1-2:30 pm BioLabs 1068 (Main Auditorium) Darwin Day Symposium Scientists and scholars discuss influence of Darwin on their own work (Open to all)
Dinnertime House dining halls Darwin Birthday Cake Om nom nom nom...
6-7 pm Geological Lecture Hall (Museum building) Darwin at 200: Rethinking the Revolution Lecture by Janet Browne (Details)
Evening Cambridge Queen's Head Pub Humanist Association Darwin Day Party Includes free drinks, live bands, and publicity for Sebastian Velez's charity Children of the Border

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