Friday, February 9

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1:30 – 2:00 pm  Welcome

Erika Milam and Suman Seth

2:00 – 3:30 pm  Session 1: ABSENCE

Commentator & Chair — Helen Longino  

The Meaning of Absence: The Primate Tree That Did Not Make it into The Descent of Man
Marianne Sommer

The Evolution of Darwinian Sexualities
Erika Milam

3:30 – 4:00 pm  Coffee

4:00 – 5:30 pm  Session 2: EMPIRE

Commentator & Chair — Emily Kern  

Darwinism and the Russian Science of Empire
Marina Mogilner

Energetic Darwinism, Or How Liminal Men Read for Facts in Colonial India
Projit Bihari Mukharji

6:30 pm  Dinner — for Workshop Participants 

Saturday, February 10

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8:30 – 9:00 am  Light Breakfast —  for Workshop Participants

9:00 – 10:30 am  Session 3: RACE

Commentator & Chair — Suman Seth  

Sexual Selection as a Fulcrum in the History of Race
Myrna Perez Sheldon

Darwin’s Descent in Arabic: Language, Race, and Civilization
Marwa Elshakry

10:30 – 11:00 am  Coffee

11:00 – 12:30 pm  Session 4: SEX 

Commentator & Chair —Jenna Tonn  

Darwin’s Bawdy: The Popular, Gendered, and Radical Reception of the Descent of Man in the US, 1871-1910
Kimberly Hamlin

The Late Ascent of Darwin’s Descent: Exploring Human Evolution between Sex, Biology, and the Chinese Nation
Lijing Jiang

12:30 – 2:00 pm  Lunch — for all Attendees

2:00 – 3:30 pm  Session 5: HUMAN 

Commentator & Chair — Katja Guenther

Charles Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Evolution of Other-Regarding Ethics
Piers Hale

The Devil’s in the Phememes: Twentieth-century Work on the Evolution of Language
Judy Kaplan

3:30 – 4:00 pm  Coffee

4:00 – 5:30 pm  Session 6: PROGRESS 

Commentator & Chair —Erika Milam

The Antagonism of Hands
Nasser Zakariya

FINAL DISCUSSION

5:30 – 6:30 pm Reception — for all Attendees