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Detailed List of EventsExhibit: Darwin and the Evolution of a Theory August 13th - December 22nd To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, The Bancroft Library has mounted an exhibition of rare books, manuscripts, images, scientific specimens, and other materials, drawing on the collections of the campus's libraries and museums. The exhibition explores the formative influences on Darwin's thought, the books he read that gave him his early stimulation, Darwin1s around-the-world voyage on the Beagle, his major ideas and works, and the reaction to the publication of the Origin. The exhibition brings together for the first time material from Bancroft, the Bioscience and Natural Resources Library, Museum of Paleontology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University and Jepson Herbaria, Essig Museum of Entomology, and the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. The exhibit is in Bancroft's new Gallery, located off the Rotunda lobby immediately inside the east entrance. Roundtable: Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California Thursday, September 17th Led by Frances Dinkelspiel
Isaias Hellman was the premier California financier of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, rising from humble immigrant beginnings to the presidency of Wells Fargo bank. His story captures a pivotal moment in American history: the rise of California from a frontier economy driven by the barter of hides and the exchange of gold to an economic steam engine driving the nation. Event: Gallery Talks by David Farrell and Anthony Bliss Friday, October 2nd Details forthcoming. Event: The Bancroft Is Worth a Thousand Words: The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection Past, Present, and Future Saturday, October 3rd Led by Jack von Euw, Curator of the Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection Powerpoint presentation featuring highlights from the Pictorial Collection, as well as current and future collecting initiatives. The Pictorial Collection, consisting of eight million items, ranges from shipboard sketches and drawings from the early voyages of exploration to California and Alaska, major western American >landscape paintings and photographs from mid 19th and early 20th centuries, and the recent donation of the San Francisco Examiner photography archive to photographs of the construction of the new East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Roundtable: The Making - and Unmaking - of Southeast San Francisco Thursday, October 15th Led by Rachel Brahinsky
A massive redevelopment program is underway in San Francisco's Bayview, Hunter's Point, and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods. Isolated in the city's southeast corner, these communities have long been an outpost for industries, projects, and indeed people who were not welcome elsewhere in liberal San Francisco. What can we learn from the history of one of the last largely African American and working class parts of this wealthy, yet politically complex, town? Roundtable: Disrupting the Status Quo: The Story of Dr. Sidney Garfield Thursday, November 19th Led by Tom Debley
The innovations of Dr. Sidney Garfield, physician co-founder of Kaiser Permanente, have been raising the eyebrows (and sometimes the hair) of traditionalists since the 1930s. Overshadowed by legendary co-founder Henry J. Kaiser, this son of Russian immigrants became a leader of 20th century American medicine. Bancroft's Kaiser Collections enriched this first-ever biography of Sidney Garfield. Event: Panel Discussion: Darwin's Enduring Legac Wednesday, November 4th The Bancroft Library and the Townsend Center present a panel discussion, "Darwin's Enduring Legacy." Featured panelists include Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology, and Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and co-curator of the exhibition "Darwin and the Evolution of a Theory" in The Bancroft Library Gallery. |
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