OXFORD, Ohio – Kimberly Hamlin, assistant professor of history and American studies at Miami University, presents “The American Reception of Darwin, 1859-1900: An Interdisciplinary Introduction,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4 at the Miami University Art Museum. This event is free and open to the public.

This interactive talk will explore the U.S. reception of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871) from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on the varied and often surprising ways in which individuals and even entire fields incorporated, challenged, and reformulated Darwin’s groundbreaking ideas about the origins of life on earth. Students and other participants will be encouraged to participate in the discussion and to imagine themselves in the context of the late 1800s, as well as reflect on the ways in which the U.S. reception of evolutionary theory has changed over time.

The art museum is located at 801 South Patterson Avenue in Oxford Ohio. There is ample free parking, and it is located Miami University’s Blue bus route. For more information, contact the museum at 513-529-2232 or http://arts.muohio.edu/art-museum.