To mark “Darwin Day,” the University of New Orleans will hold a series of lectures on Saturday, March 26 at the Homer L. Hitt Alumni and Visitors Center on the UNO campus.
The daylong event begins with a reception at 9:30 a.m. Trenton Holliday, Tulane University professor of anthropology, will present “New Perspectives on the Origin of the Genus Homo” at 10:00 a.m. At 11:00 a.m., Loyola University professor of English Janelle Schwartz will discuss “’Something Far More Deeply Interfused’: Evolution as Illusion in Darwin and Shelley.”
After a break for lunch, UNO philosophy instructor Mark Phillips will present “Homo Religiosus—or—Why Primates Talk to God” at 12:30 p.m. The afternoon will conclude at 1:30 p.m. with a presentation from Victor Stenger, University of Colorado philosophy professor and author of God: The Failed Hypothesis.
The lectures are free and open to the public.