Lectures and Symposia

Join us for an intriguing, thought provoking, educational and entertaining program of lectures and symposia!

Unless otherwise stated, please contact Eric Ward (816-926-8753) for more information on these events.

FEBRUARY 2010

    The Eighth Paul D. Bartlett Sr. Lecture

2/25/10 7:00 pm
 
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Richard Wrangham
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology
Curator of Primate Behavioral Biology,
Harvard University

The Paul D. Bartlett Sr. Lectures are presented by the Linda Hall Library in association with the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Kansas City, the Princeton Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City, and the Yale Club of Kansas City

MARCH 2010

3/10/10 7:00 pm
(doors open 6:00 pm)
The Tangled Web of Spider Evolution

Paul Selden
Gulf-Hedberg Distinguished Professor of Invertebrate Paleontology
Director of the Paleontological Institute,
University of Kansas

Sponsored by the Friends of the Linda Hall Library

 

3/24/10 7:00 p.m.
(doors open 6:00 p.m.)
We Can Now Solve the Oldest Environmental Problem

Wes Jackson
President, The Land Institute
Salina, Kansas.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Linda Hall Library

APRIL 2010

4/22/10 7:00 pm
(Exhibition opening at 6:00 pm)
Star Struck! Sidereal Messages, Galileo to Herschel

William B. Ashworth Jr.
Consultant for the History of Science
Linda Hall Library
Opening of the Linda Hall Library Exhibition
"Thinking Outside the Sphere: Views of the Stars from Aristotle to Herschel"

MAY 2010

    Are We Alone?
The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Life

5/5/10 7:00 p.m.
(doors open 6:00 p.m.)
Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Planets

Sara Seager,
Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5/10/10 7:00 p.m.
(doors open 6:00 p.m.)
Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Seth Shostak,
Senior Astronomer,
SETI Institute
Mountain View, CA

5/19/10 7:00 p.m.
(doors open 6:00 p.m.)
The Paradoxes of Time Travel

Sean Carroll,
Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics
Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics
California Institute of Technology

This lecture series is made possible through the generous support of Dr. James and Francie Flynn.

JUNE 2010

6/23/10 7:00 pm
(doors open 6:00 pm)
Robots That Care: Can Socially Assistive Robotics be a Part of the Solution to the Growing Healthcare Problem?

Maja Mataric
Professor in the Computer Science Department and Neuroscience Program
University of Southern California

Sponsored by the Friends of the Linda Hall Library

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