Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/20/2025
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Categories
The Scopes Trial of 1925 was an inflection point in US conversations around religion, science, education, and mass media. This symposium will feature some of the most cutting-edge scholars linking the Scopes Trial to our present moment one hundred years later.
March 20 – 21, 2025
Hybrid event: Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, and Virtual
Open to the Public
Hosted by: Kislak Center
A political cartoon depicting two men, Tweedledarrow and Tweedlebryan, fighting to be in the spotlight. Text reads “you’re trying to hog my spotlight!”
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The Scopes Trial of 1925 was an inflection point in US conversations around religion, science, education, and mass media. A century later, core issues surfaced by the Scopes Trial are still with us — disputes about school curricula, the trustworthiness of bioscience, and secularism — making the Scopes Trial look like an early salvo in our ongoing culture wars. This symposium will feature some of the most cutting-edge scholars linking the Scopes Trial to our present moment one hundred years later.
Online access to the symposium will be limited to Friday’s sessions only.
A selection of relevant materials, including multiple lifetime editions of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, will be on display in the Henry Charles Lea Library during the symposium.
Co-sponsored by the Religious Studies Department Boardman Fund; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; Education, Culture, and Society Program at the Graduate School of Education; University Research Foundation; School of Arts and Sciences; Department of History; Department of History and Sociology of Science; and SNF Paideia Program.