Why Lincoln and Darwin?

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 – 4:30pm
The MIT Chapel

Speakers:

  • Jonathan King
    Biology, MIT
  • Melvin King
    Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
  • Helen Elaine Lee
    Comparative Media Studies, MIT
  • John Stauffer
    Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the shared Birthday of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln

Speakers including:

  • “Why Lincoln and Darwin?” Jonathan King
  • “The Words and Lives of Abolitionists” Helen Elaine Lee
  • “A View from the Community” Melvin King
  • Music by the St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church Choir and the Americana String Band
  • With Benediction by Rev. Leslie Sterling of St. Bartholomew’s

Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Darwin Society, the MIT Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and the MIT Dean of the School of Science.

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