Liberal Arts Interdisciplinary Panel On Evolution

Members of the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts will convene for an interdisciplinary look at evolution on Monday, March 2, at 3:00 in 112 Rouse Life Sciences Bldg as part of the Charles Darwin Commemorative Celebration.  Chris Qualls, Assistant Professor of Theater, Elizabeth Brestan Knight, Associate Professor of Psychology, Giovanna Summerfield, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages, and Brigitta Brunner, Margaret Fitch-Hauser, and Robert French, professors in the department of Communications and Journalism will offer varying interpretations of Darwin and evolution from perspectives within the arts and humanities.

Professor Qualls, who will present a dramatic reading from the transcripts of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial from 1925, will be followed by professor Knight who will offer a psychological theory of mate selection that is based on Darwin's theory of evolution.  Drs. Brunner, Fitch-Hauser, and French will next investigate the evolution of the public relations industry from Barnum to Bloggers.  The final presentation by professor Summerfield will explore Collodi's masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio.  Written one year after Darwin's death, its main character carries on the revolution against an intervening deity, with an emphasis on competitive struggle for existence and self-betterment.

This interdisciplinary panel presented by College of Liberal Arts' faculty promises to offer an interesting and unusual collection of original investigations of Darwin's groundbreaking ideas.  All are invited to attend.

For more information please visit www.auburn.edu/cah or call 334-844-4946