Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D., English (Founder)
Kristy Biolsi, Ph.D., Psychology (Co-founder)
Alison Dell, Ph.D., Biology
Clayton Schoppa, Ph.D., Philosophy
John Dilyard, Ph.D., Management
Kathleen Nolan, Ph.D., Biology
EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES COLLABORATIVE, M I S S I O N A N D G O A L S [Established 2012]
The Mission of the Evolutionary Studies Collaborative
is to advance the study and discussion of evolution at St. Francis College using
an interdisciplinary approach by:
° -including
objective and unbiased references to evolution, whether through natural
selection, sexual selection, social selection, or cultural selection in a range
of courses across disciplines;
° -fostering
discussions about biological, psychological, or cultural evolution in the
classroom or on campus;
° -promoting
via campus events a greater awareness and understanding of evolution in its multiple
dimensions.
The Goals of ESC include (but are not limited
to):
° -coordinating
meetings with students and professors who wish to discuss evolution (and to
find ways of incorporating evolutionary studies in courses);
° -creating
on-campus workshops or symposia highlighting the importance of an evolutionary
perspective to learning and teaching across disciplines;
° -encouraging
students to offer periodic *Evolution Everywhere* presentations (in class, on
campus, or via a Collaborative-related blog);
° -holding
public events on campus;
° -inviting
speakers to campus;
° -conducting
field trips;
° -working
with the ASEBL Journal and blog (especially in terms of a biennial Moral Sense
Colloquium);
° -initiating
a stand-alone blog (with student involvement) devoted entirely to evolutionary
studies at SFC;
° -engaging
with other evolutionary studies programs at other colleges.
° -establish
(2018) a Venture Lab in Experimental Arts and Humanities.
Evolutionary Studies Collaborative, Sponsored Events at St. Francis College
Senior Developers:
Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D. (English / Interdisciplinary Studies), founder. Kristy Biolsi, Ph.D. (Psychology), co-founder. Alison Dell, Ph.D. (Biology). Clayton Shoppa (Philosophy); John Dilyard (Management); Kathleen Nolan (Biology).
Being Human: Call of the Wild. Readings/discussion (Janyce
Stefan-Cole, Lisa Sita, Anne Whitehouse), book signing. 6 February 2013.
Born to be Good? Film showing, discussion. 26 April 2013.
Natalie Settles. Artist-in-residence, U. Pittsburgh
Tonsor Evolutionary Plant Biology Lab. Talk/presentation. 4 November 2013.
Moral Sense Colloquium
II. Animal
Cognition. 7 March 2014 (half day conference). Featured Dr. Diana Reiss, world-renowned expert in animal consciousness and
cognition, and canine expert Julie Hecht.
Student panels.
Seamus McGraw. Fracking and Environmental Issues.
Talk/presentation, book-signing. 10 March 2014.
Dr. Irina Ellison
on the Evolutionary Bases of Compassion and Healing, 11 November 2014.
Dr. Biolsi,
a talk and presentation concerning her new Initiative, C-SPEC (Center for the
Study of Pinniped Ecology and Cognition), 17 October 2014. C-SPEC: http://www.sfc.edu/academics/institutescenters/pinniped
Book Talk. Interview of
Seamus McGraw (based on his book, Betting
the Farm on a Drought) by Dr.
Gregory Tague. 27 March 2015.
Consciousness,
Theatre, Literature and the Arts. International, three-day conference.
10 June 2015. Conference co-organizer, Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Ph.D.,
University of Lincoln, U.K.
Christopher X
J. Jensen,
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Pratt Institute. “Highly-creative baby-breeding
idea propagators: What human (re)productive choices mean for the future of our
species.” 11 December 2015.
Dr. Alison Dell and Dr. Irina Ellison.
Numerous sessions of Art in the Lab. 2015 – present: www.artinthelab.com
What do a psychologist, biologist, and English professor
have in common? Panel: Drs. Kristy Biolsi, Alison Dell,
Gregory F. Tague, 17 October 2016.
Art and Adaptation. 11 November 2016; 3
March 2017. Presentation by Dr. Gregory
Tague.
Darwin Day. 15 February 2017,
featuring summary of Madagascar research by Dr. Antonia Florio and a mini Art-in-the-Lab by Dr. Alison Dell.
Moral Sense Colloquium III. 2 June 2017.
Keynote, legendary biologist Robert
Trivers, Ph.D. and Plenary speaker David
Lahti, Ph.D. (Full day conference.)
Interdisciplinary Workshop/Luncheon.
23 January 2018. SFC faculty and students discuss interdisciplinary studies.
Darwin Day. 12 February 2018,
with a student speakers.
Meet-and-Greet: New ASEBL issue and Scholarship Event. 5 March 2018. To mark the full funding
of an Orangutan Caring Scholarship (through the Oran Utan Repbulik Foundation).
To kick off a new campaign of fundraising for an ape sanctuary. Release a new
ASEBL Call for Great Ape Personhood papers. Announce Venture Lab in Experimental Arts and Humanities – a student contest
that asks for evolutionary solutions to problems.
Women and Minorities in Science.
5 April 2018. Workshop/luncheon with Dr. Agnes Mocsy. Worked with a number of
program directors, deans, and departments to identify students who could
attend.
Venture Lab in Experimental Arts and Humanities.
Contest (see flyer and guidelines). Informational sessions 17 and 24 September
2018. Also open to Pratt Institute students. Hybrid visual media/writing
project about mitigating rainforest degradation.
Great Ape Personhood. Filming of Raised
Human, featuring Dr. Gary Shapiro and his tale of Princess, the orangutan.
Reading of excerpts from Long Call for an
Ape Ethic, co-authored by Gary Shapiro and Gregory Tague.
Darwin Day. Women Scientists. ASEBL
January ape personhood issue release. Venture Lab in Experimental Arts and
Humanities winner. 11 February 2019.
Earth Day. Informal talks by
Dr. Gregory Tague, Dr. John Dilyard, and students. 29 April 2019.
Moral Sense Colloquium IV. 28 September
2019. Cross-cultural Morality: Human and Animal. Student panel on
cross-cultural morality. Includes a panel with philosophers Carlo Alvaro (NYC
Technical College) and Jeff Sebo (NYU) on ethical veganism and chimpanzee
rights.
Songs of Story Men. South African
musical performers Vaneshran Arumugam (was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at
SFC; Royal Shakespeare Company, etc.) and Emmanuel Castis. Part of MSC IV, 28
September 2019.
Fashion Evolution:
From Environmental Injustice to Eco Solution. Presentation
by Dr. Milena Popov, CUNY. 5 November 2020.
Darwin Day, 12 February 2021. PPT
on Darwin by Prof. Tague and panel discussion with Drs. Nolan, Biolsi, Mathur,
Shoppa, Tague, and students on “The Scope of Darwinism Across Disciplines.”
Earth Day writing
contest 2021
(winners published in Literary Veganism).
Earth/Darwin Day, 11 April 2022.
Faculty and students.
Earth Day writing
contest 2022
(winners published in Literary Veganism).
Moral Sense Colloquium V – Sustainability and Ethics. 16 May 2022. SFC faculty (Drs. Tague, Biolsi, Dilyard, Dell, and Shoppa) and a student panel (Ashtyn Van Horn and Luis E. Banegas).
