The Southern Connecticut Darwin Day Dinner started in 2009. We have enjoyed many great talks and dinners:
- 2024 – Matthew Eisaman / Using the Oceans to Address Climate Change
- 2023 – Vanessa Ezenwa / When Worms and Germs Compete, Who Wins?
- 2022 – Pincelli Hull / Mass Extinction in Our Once and Future World
- 2021 – James Prosek / The Nature of Representing Nature
- 2020 – Steven Novella / Science Denial, Darwin, and Evolutionary Theory
- 2019 – Mark Siddall / Bioluminescence, a Survival Strategy
- 2018 – Mark Sheskin / What, if anything, makes humans unique?
- 2017 – Walter Jetz / Tracking Birds With Satellites: Taking the Pulse of the Planet
- 2016 – Meir Kryger / The Mystery of Sleep
- 2015 – Richard O. Prum / Aesthetic Evolution by Mate Choice: Darwin’s Really Dangerous Idea
- 2014 – Peter Crane / The Future of Plants
- 2013 – Daniel Colón-Ramos / Darwin, evolution, and 21st century biomedical sciences: the importance of model organisms in research and discovery
- 2012 – Rene Almeling / Sex Cells: The Market for Human Eggs and Sperm
- 2011 – Paul Turner / Viruses – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- 2010 – Charles Bailyn / The Evolution of the Universe
- 2009 – Dr Laurie Santos / Sex, Evolution, and Human Nature