Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) was the Professor of Insects and Worms at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Living through the storms of the French Revolution and Napoleonic period, he founded biology, coining the term to name a new science devoted to all and only living things, and authored the first theory of evolution. Lamarck’s science was foundational to modern biology, yet its radicalism – he usurped God’s monopoly on Creation and re-assigned it to mortal, living beings – brought him and his ideas plenty of trouble.

Tanner Lectures on Human Values

Archives Out Loud
2:00–3:00 P.M., HQ 134
God and William F. Buckley at Yale
Journalist and former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, author of the biography Buckley, talks with Pulitzer-prize winning Yale historian Beverly Gage about how Buckley remade American conservatism.

Generative Workshop: Prose
10:00-11:00 AM, HQ 134
Writing and rewriting characters
Come prepared to write with novelist Raven Leilani, author of Luster.
Open to members of the Yale community, with preference given to Yale students.
RSVP required.

Artists at Work
12:00–1:00 P.M., HQ 134
How do artists collaborate?
Husband-and-wife duo Matt Berninger, lead singer of The National, and poet and editor Carin Besser, formerly of The New Yorker, discuss their long-standing musical collaboration, and the challenges and delights of co-creation. Introduced by Meghan O’Rourke and moderated by award-winning playwright and Yale professor Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.