The life cycle of ideas will be the topic for the next installment of the Jess Usher Lecture Series at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College on Monday, April 1.

Dr. Jay Baldwin, an associate professor of communication in ABAC’s School of Arts & Sciences, will be giving the lecture, titled “How Ideas Have Sex: An Account of Human Communication.”

The presentation will center around communication as a “Darwinian reproductive process” and how ideas struggle for existence. Topics will include how ideas spread in societies with some fading quickly and others becoming more durable.

The lecture is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at ABAC’s Howard Auditorium. Each Usher Lecture Series event is free and open to the public.

The Jess Usher Lecture Series features a carefully curated slate of dynamic presentations, drawn from a wide range of disciplines and delivered by distinguished members of the ABAC faculty as well as distinguished guest lecturers. Formerly known as the ABAC Lecture Series, this special collection has been renamed in memory of Dr. Jess Usher, an ABAC professor and former lecturer in the series, who passed away in June 2021.