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Darwin's

Day

 
While preparing the great international celebration that will take place on 12th February 2009, Darwin's day is being commemorated worldwide with a variety of activities aiming to spread scientific knowledge among the citizens. The University of Valencia (UVEG) has a centennial tradition of this commemoration. In 1909, a group of Medicine students decided to honour the centenary of Charles Robert Darwin's birthday with a public ceremony and a special issue of the magazine Tribuna Médica dedicated to the author of The Origin of Species.

 

 

 

It's 22nd February 1909, and a large picture of Darwin's dominates the University main hall, which is crowded with students longing to hear the words of Peregrin Casanova (Anatomy professor), Miguel de Unamuno (Chancellor of the University of Salamanca), and professors Juan Bartual and Eduard Boscà. 

 

La Actualidad, number 136

 

Documents from the López Piñero Research Institute for Science History and Documentation (CSIC-UVEG)

Darwin's Day 2007

 

This event is an activity of the Science Communication Chair of the University of Valencia, Acció Cultural del País Valencià, the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, the Faculty of Biology of the University of Valencia, Lluís Vives Hall of Residence, the Catalan Studies Institute (IEC), the Catalan Biology Society and CAM.

 

WEDNESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2007


12.30 h. RESEARCH SEMINAR
 

IATA-CSIC Main Hall

Burjassot-Paterna Campus

 


 Bio-geographic patterns and evolution of the poisonous marine gastropod Conus at the archipelago of Cabo Verde

 by Rafael Zardoya (MNCN-CSIC, Madrid).



19.00 h. SCIENCE CAFÉ

 

Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània

Carrer Sant Ferran, 12 - València


 What if Nature is not the answer?

CONTRA NATURA


In relation to the publication of Arcadi Navarro’s book Contra Natura. L’essència conflictiva del món viu (Contra Natura. The Conflictive Essence Of the Living World), published by Bromera and the Valencia University Press in 2006. Speakers: Arcadi Navarro, Mercè Piqueras, Luis Burillo, Sergi Contrí and Emili Piera. Conductor: Manuel S. Jardí.


THURSDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2007

12.30 h. LECTURE
 

Inter-faculty Hall, Room F-15

Av. Vicent Andrés Estelles, s/n

Burjassot-Paterna Campus


 The Neanderthal Genome

 by Carles Lalueza (Barcelona University, Pompeu Fabra University).



19.00 h. DOCUMENTARY SHOW
 

Facultat de Filologia, Graduate Room.

Blasco Ibáñez Campus


 

Darwin’s Nightmare

 with comments by Arcadi Oliveres (Barcelona Autonomous University)