EngageEventsThe Scopes Trial at 100: Secularism, Race, and Education
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The Scopes Trial at 100: Secularism, Race, and Education

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save the date for March 20-21 symposium on the Scopes Trial with a black and white illustration, a political cartoon of an octopus wrapping its tentacles around buildings

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.

The Boardman Symposium 2025 is 1.5-day workshop at the University of Pennsylvania and will feature some of the most cutting-edge scholars linking the Scopes Trial to our present moment one hundred years later.

More information coming soon and will be listed here.

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