February Events
Sunday, February 1, Iowa City: Informational meeting at 7:00pm for Camp Quest in 2009. Camp Quest is a secular summer camp for kids age 8-15 and counselors in training ages 16 and 17. This meeting is intended to provide information and answer questions for interested campers, their parents, and volunteers. Please contact Jaime Sabel at jsabel[at]iowasecularists[dot]org to RSVP and get directions.
Friday February 6. Cedar Rapids. First Friday Social at 7:00pm at Dana’s house.
Saturday, February 7, Des Moines. Quarterly IS Board Meeting.
Saturday, February 7. Des Moines. Iowa Secularists Winter Solstice Soiree at the Drake Municipal Observatory (rescheduled from December). Registration is still open; the deadline is February 4th. Please see the post further down the page for more information about the event and how to join us for this great event!
Monday-Thursday, February 9-12, Cedar Falls-Waterloo. Darwin Week activities sponsored by the University of Northern Iowa Freethinkers and Inquirers (UNIFI) and the Iowa Secularists. All events are in the Maucker Student Union at UNI unless otherwise noted. Keynote addresses include:
Wednesday, February 11, 7:00pm: Hector Avalos, Ph.D., Prof. of Religious Studies, Iowa State University: “Intelligent Design: Why it is religion and not science.”
Thursday, February 12, 7:00pm: Mr. D.J. Grothe, Vice President and Director of Outreach Programs, The Center for Inquiry Transnational: ”Darwin made me do it: Secular and religious ethics.” Also will be done February 13th at ISU (see below).
Click the Cedar Falls/Waterloo link below for a day-by-day list of these and other activities, or go to www.darwinweek.com.
Wednesday-Friday, February 11-13, Iowa City. Darwin Week activities with keynote addresses by biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist, and author, E. O. Wilson. Professor Wilson is Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. His talks will be:
Wednesday, February 11 at 7:30pm: “Why Biodiversity Matters” at the Iowa Memorial Union Main Ballroom on the UI campus, and
Thursday February 12 at 9:00am: “Why Biodiversity Matters” in the Old Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol on the UI campus.
For a complete listing of Darwin Week activities in Iowa City and at the University of Iowa, please visit http://icdarwinday.org/default.aspx for more information.
Thursday, February 12. Iowa City. Old Chicago meetup. 7:00pm.
Thursday-Friday, February 12-13, ISU campus. Darwin Day activities sponsored by the ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society and the Iowa Secularists. Keynote events include:
Thursday, February 12, ISU campus. “Darwin and Me” panel discussion, 7:00pm, Cardinal room of the Memorial Union.
Friday, February 13, ISU campus. Mr. D.J. Grothe, Vice President and Director of Outreach Programs, The Center for Inquiry Transnational: ”Darwin made me do it: Secular and religious ethics”, Campanile Room of the Memorial Union, 7:00pm. Can people be good without being religious? What does Darwin’s theory of evolution tell us about morality? Can a secular ethics – based firmly in the sciences – hold the answers to the world’s greatest problems?
Saturday, February 14, Des Moines. Saturday morning coffee meetup at Cup O’Kryptonite , 10:00am.
Saturday, February 14, Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids Clean-Up/Rebuilding effort, 9:00am.
Sunday, February 15, Waterloo. Sunday Coffee meetup at Panera Bread, 11:00am.
Wednesday, February 18, Cedar Rapids. Game Night at Battlezone, 7:00pm.
Thursday, February 19. Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids Area Dinner. 7:00pm at Leonardo’s Pizza.
Thursday, February 19, Des Moines. IS meetup, Firkin and Fox, 7:00pm
Thursday, February 26, Waterloo-Cedar Falls. IS Dinner (location to be determined), 7:00pm
Saturday, February 28, Iowa City. Capanna Coffee meetup in downtown Iowa City, 10:00am.
*More events will be added as they are scheduled.
For more information and to RSVP to Iowa Secularists Meetup events:
Cedar Falls/Waterloo
Corridor (Cedar Rapids, Iowa City)
Des Moines
For a complete list of events of the ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society, click here: ISU AAS
For a complete list of events or information about UNIFI, click here: UNIFI.
For the full combined calendar of these and other events for the month of February, check out the ‘Calendar’ page (note: you must be logged in to see the events on the calendar).