Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Free admission, open to the public, refreshments served.

IUN Darwin Day features several excellent speakers on science, humanities, evolution, and Darwin, with cake and songs, and just plain fun. The featured speakers will each talk for 15 to 20 minutes, with a few minutes for questions between talks. So come whenever you can, and stay as long as you want.

IUN Biologist Spencer Cortwright studies the small animals like salamanders that inhabit the local grasslands and the IUN campus itself. Those studies have led him to daydream how nice it would be to share with Darwin new evidence and new ideas on evolution that have come on board since his death.

IUN Art Historian Adrienne Kochman, herself the daughter of an anthropologist, sees a cyclical relationship of the present and the past in art, an evolution of art and an evolution within art itself.

IUN and Adler Planetarium Astronomer Larry Ciupik looks at the night sky today and sees the origin and evolution of the universe.

Hobart Minister Roger Brewin reflects on the Reverence for the Natural World that he sees in the night sky.

There will be about ten thousand recently donated books on almost every topic imaginable: fiction (classic to pulp), social and natural sciences, humanities, nursing, education, etc. We'll have many not too old textbooks (and some really old ones) to help with classes, and books on various subjects that might help or inspire that term paper you've been putting off starting on. Stock up on summer reading now! We will even have a few anthropology books. And ALL books are one dollar! And there are quantity discounts! We will continue to put out more books all week long. So come early, browse often. All books 50 cents on Friday.