![]() Our campus had, at the time, a strong interdisciplinary Women’s Studies program and some people warned me to “expect some trouble.” ![]() The immediate catalyst for this, apparently, was a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that Tiger had published calling for the closing of Women’s Studies programs. Being closely connected to faculty from a broad cross-section of campus, I got word that some faculty members were displeased with this choice of speaker. What would Darwin think of the state of the world? And would he have suggestions for the people in America in 2008? Seemed interesting and on-topic to me.īut then there was a bit of an issue. Tiger had achieved quite a bit in his career and his academic title alone suggested that he fit the bill for our series.įor his visit, he was slated to give a talk on the modern world from the perspective of Darwin. After discussions among our all-faculty executive board, we’d decided to invite Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology of Rutgers, as our first-ever speaker in the series. Our campus’ interdisciplinary Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) program had just been launched and a younger, more naive version of myself, as director of the fledgling program, was excited about this new offering of our university, the State University of New York at New Paltz.Ī foundational feature of the program, following the Binghamton EvoS model, was a speaker series with public lectures to be given by evolution-minded scholars from a broad array of areas. This piece is available in audio format on our podcast, “ Heterodox Out Loud : the best of the HxA blog.” Narration begins at 1:10.
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