4:00 - 6:30pm: Welcome
Welcome and viewing of 1960 film Inherit the Wind
- Symposium
The Scopes Trial at 100: Secularism, Race, and Education
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.
Hosted by: Kislak Center
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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.
Program and Speakers
6:30-7:30 pm: Reception
Reception & view display in the Lea Library
7:30 - 8:30 pm: Donovan O. Schaefer, Visual Culture + Mythbusting
8:30 - 9:00 pm: Discussion
9:30-10:00 am: Coffee
10:00 - 11:30 am: Panel 1
11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Lunch & view display in the Lea Library
1:00 - 2:30 pm: Panel 2
2:30 - 2:45 pm: Coffee break
2:45 - 4:15 pm: Panel 3
4:30-5:30 pm: Wrap-up
Featured image: Cartoon from the July 14, 1925 Los Angeles Times newspaper.