Hybrid Event: The Scopes Trial at 100: Secularism, Race, and Education – Mar 20-21
Posted by University of Pennsylvania Library on March 4, 2025
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.
Dates and Times:
- Thursday, March 20, 4:00-6:30 PM
- Friday, March 21, 6:30-9:00 PM
Location: Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor
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