Lectures

Here are audio and/or video links to some of my recent public talks.

Harvard Thinks Big, Feb '10.  Here's an account of the event from the Harvard Gazette.

Darwin 200 Celebrations in Istanbul, May '09.  I'm proud to report that these and other appearances in Turkey have provoked a prominent Turkish creationist organization to dub Doug Futuyma and me "imported American pagan priests"

The Other Darwin: Alfred Russel Wallace, Monadnock Summer Lyceum, New Hampshire Public Radio, Aug '09.

In 2012, Cambridge Science Festival ran a "What if...?" event in which I and a couple of others explored "alternative histories of science."  Here are a couple of clips of me on "What if Darwin hadn't gone on the voyage of the Beagle?"  To see the whole event, including What If's on phrenology and phlogiston theory and a panel discussion, go here.

2013 saw, in November, the Centenary of Wallace's death and a corresponding flurry of Wallace-related activity, including, at Harvard, an opportunity to meet the man himself (channelled by me) [sound only, and of occasionally dubious quality].  Here's a lovely animation of the Wallace story created by Sharon Shattuck and Flora Lichtman for which I did some of the narration.  Here's my talk at the Royal Society's Wallace symposium; here a radio interview; and here a podcast and a lecture from a visit to the University of Alberta.