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Ole and UMN professors team-up to study role of imagination

By Tom Vogel
March 19, 2007

Assistant professor of art Jil Evans posits that our survival as a species may depend on how seriously we take imagination. Evans, along with Christine Baeumler, assistant professor of art at the University of Minnesota, is studying how species change and adapt to their environment. In a recent Star Tribune article, Evans and Baeumler discuss what causes humans to use imagination to think beyond themselves.

In 2009 -- the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth -- Evans and Baeumler hope to organize a conference at St. Olaf College, combining art, philosophy, science and religion in order to explore the role that imagination plays between what we can see and what we can't.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.