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Critical Issues Symposium 2003

Putting Science In Its Place: Discovery & Responsibility


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The 2003 22nd Annual Critical Issues Symposium
"Putting Science In Its Place: Discovery and Responsibility"

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

7:00 p.m. Opening Keynote Address

"Putting Science In Its Place"
Dimnent Memorial Chapel
Gerald McKenny, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame

8:15 - 9:30 pm Conversations About Science

  1. Science and the Fine Arts- Bill Mayer and Maxine DeBruyn Location TBA
  2. Science and Christianity -Steve Hoogerwerf and Paulette Chaponniere Location TBA
  3. Science and Philosophy - Joseph LaPorte and Don Cronkite Location TBA
  4. Science as a Liberal Art - Roger Veldman and Lee Forester Location TBA
  5. Science and Literature - Curtis Gruelner and Kathleen Verduin Location TBA

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1

9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Morning Keynote Address

"Science, Techonology, and the Future: The Spirit of Discovery and a Need for Responsibility"
Dimnent Memorial Chapel
Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences

10:15 - 11:15 a.m. Focus Sessions

  1. The Role of Science in Countering Terroism,Speaker and location TBA
  2. Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine, Georgia Dunston, Howard University Location TBA
  3. The Regulation of Science: Decisions at the Global Level, Speaker and location TBA
  4. Access/Equality in Health Care, Speaker and location TBA

  5. 11:30a.m - 12:30 p.m. Mid-Day Keynote Address
    "Contemporary Moral Challenges in Science"
    Dimnent Memorial Chapel
    Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spellman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School


12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Lunch

2:00 - 2:45 p.m. Focus Sessions

    1. Science for a Global and Diverse Society, James Stith and Elizabeth Gayton Location TBA
    2. Creating the Leaders of Tomorrow, Jenny Narum Location TBA
    3. Impact of Information Techonology on Science, Malcolm Campbell Location TBA
    4. Science and the Media, Barbara Gastel Location TBA
3:00-4:15 p.m. Panel Discussion
"Putting Science In Its Place: Discovery and Responsibility"
Location TBA
Gerald McKenny, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Others TBA