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| University Theatre presents Re: Design |
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Event Description
Re: Design
by Craig Baxter
Wed-Sun, Nov 4-8
(7 pm Wednesday with discussion panel, 8pm Wed-Sat, 3pm Sun)
Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre, Thompson Hall
Re: Design
is a dramatization of the correspondence between Charles Darwin and American botanist Asa Gray, commissioned by the Darwin Project, and written by Cambridge playwright Craig Baxter. The drama uses Darwin's own words and those of his correspondents, taken from the letters and from reminiscences. The play chronicles the relationship between Darwin and Gray over nearly forty years, with particular reference to their intimate discussions of the implications of their scientific work for their personal beliefs and for religious belief in general. Presented with UNC-TV, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.
In conjunction with the special PBS project, The Human Spark airing on UNC-TV January Jan. 6, 13, and 20 at 8 p.m.
Dr. Jim Costa
- Director, Highlands Biological Station and H. F. and Katherine P. Robinson Professor of Biology at Western Carolina University. Jim Costa is an all-around field naturalist who has studied insect social behavior from the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to southern Mexico, Costa Rica, and the Galapagos Islands. His passion for Darwin and the history of evolutionary thinking takes him to England each summer, where he teaches Darwin’s Origin of Species in Harvard’s summer program on Darwin at the University of Oxford. In 2009 Harvard published Jim’s latest book, The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of On the Origin of Species — an annotated edition of the Origin designed to help readers better understand the historical context, structure, and content of Darwin’s masterwork.
Dr. Will Kimler
- Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of History, NC State University. Dr. Kimler's research interest is the history of evolutionary ideas, with an emphasis on natural history, ecology, genetics, and behavior. He has published historical articles in the Journal of the History of Biology and in science journals such as American Zoologist, and contributed a chapter to Dimensions of Darwinism (1983). He is currently completing a book on how Charles Darwin has been used as a symbol of science and the idea of evolution.
Dr. Jean Beagle Ristaino
- Professor of Plant Pathology, NC State University. Dr. Ristaino's research focuses primarily on the ecology and epidemiology of plant pathogens. Her laboratory has pioneered forensic DNA techniques for studying historical migrations of the late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans. A major goal of her work is to develop ecologically-based disease management practices that reduce our reliance on pesticides. She is currently working on a paper with the Director of the Asa Gray Herbarium at Harvard on Darwin's work on the potato famine.
NESCent's Director, Dr. Kathleen Smith, will moderate the panel.
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Location Information:
Thompson Hall
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Admission Information:
Tiickets $10
NCSU students $5 |
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