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Events: AAAS Annual Meeting Symposia: Archive

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Listed below are symposia presented at past AAAS Annual Meetings that increase dialogue in the scientific community about science and religion.

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1997

12-16 February 2009
Chicago, IL
  • Meeting on Building the AAAS Science and Religion Coalition
    Organizers: Peyton M. West, AAAS Science and Policy Programs, Washington, DC
  • Toward the Science and Ethics of a Culture of Sustainability
    Organizers: Paul H Reitan, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, New Haven, CT
14-18 February 2008
Boston, MA
  • Major Transformations in Evolution: The State of the Art and Public Understanding
    Organizers: Eugenie C. Scott, National Center for Science Education, Oakland, CA; Nicholas J. Matzke, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Peyton M. West, AAAS Science and Policy Programs, Washington, DC
  • Communicating Science in a Religious America
    Organizers: Matthew C. Nisbet, American University, Washington, DC
15-19 February 2007
San Francisco, CA
  • Anti-Evolutionism in Europe: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid, or Not?
    Organizers: Connie Bertka, AAAS Science and Policy Programs, Washington, DC; Peyton West, AAAS Science and Policy Programs, Washington, DC
  • Supporting Evolution at the Grass-Roots: Building Better Bridges
    Organizers: Irving W. Wainer, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD; Mary Haskins, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO; Gregory Tinkler, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD
16-20 February 2006
St. Louis, MO
17-21 February 2005
Washington, DC
12-16 February 2004
Seattle, WA
  • The Challenge of Intelligent Design: New Science or Old Rhetoric?
    (semi-session)
    Organizers: John R. Staver, Kansas State University; Douglas Allchin, St. Paul, MN.
13-18 February 2003
Denver, CO
  • Revolution and Evolution in Modern Human Origins: When, Where, and Why?
    Organizers: Alison Brooks, George Washington University; Richard Potts, Smithsonian Institution.
  • Ethical, Social and Policy Implications of Studies of Human Genetic Variation: New Issues from the Human Genome Project
    Organizer: Mildred K. Cho, Stanford University.
  • New Light on the Scopes Trial
    Organizer: Edward B. Davis, Messiah College
  • Primatology and Human Nature: Cooperation and Altruism
    Organizer: Robert Sussman, Washington University
14-19 February 2002
Boston, MA
  • Rethinking the Role of Affiliation and Aggression in Primate Groups
    Organizers: Robert W. Sussman, Washington University; Karen B. Strier, University of Wisconsin
  • Behavioral Genetics: What We Know, and How We Know It
    Organizers: Elving Anderson, University of Minnesota; Audrey R. Chapman, AAAS
  • Social and Ethical Implications of Behavioral Genetics Research
    Organizers: Audrey R. Chapman, AAAS; Elving Anderson, University of Minnesota

15-20 February 2001
San Francisco, CA

  • Participants in Antievolutionism: What is Changed/Unchanged 20 Years After McLean v. Arkansas
    Organizer: Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education)
  • The Historical Sciences and Their Importance in Public Education
    (single sessions)
    Organizers: Jim Miller, DoSER, and Joel Primack, University of California-Santa Cruz
  • Ethical and Policy Implications of Synthesizing 'Minimum Genomes'
    Organizers: Mildred Cho, Stanford University
17-22 February 2000
Washington, DC
  • Sociobiology at the New Millennium
    (double session)
    Organizers: Francisco Ayala, Michael Ruse
    Including topics lecture: Sociobology Twenty-five Years Later - E. O. Wilson
  • Frontier Research: The Stem Cell Controversy
    Organizers: Audrey Chapman, Mark Frankel
  • Global Climate Change and Human Values
    Organizers: George Fisher, Devra Davis
  • Human Germline Intervention: New Challenges
    Organizers: Theodore Friedmann, Ronald Cole-Turner
  • The Origins and Nature of Sociality among Nonhuman and Human Primates
    Organizers: Robert Sussman, Audrey Chapman
  • Topical Lecture - the following topical lecture was related to a proposed symposium that the Dialogue Program facilitated. The symposium was not accepted by the AAAS Annual Meeting Program Committee but the topical lecture was.
    • Does Stress Make You Sick and Believing Make You Well - Dr. Esther M. Sternberg
21-26 January 1999
Anaheim, CA
  • The History of Science and Religion Revisited
    Organizers: Ronald Numbers, David Lindberg
  • Before the Beginning
    Organizers: Owen Gingerich, Joel Primack
  • Biomedical Enhancement of Cognition
    Organizers: Eric Juengst, Peter Whitehouse
  • Genetics, Media and Public Anxiety
    (double session)
    Organizer: Audrey Chapman
  • Topical lecture -
    • Natural Conflict Resolution - Frans de Waal
  • Topical lecture - In addition, the following topical lectures were given by Dialogue Program Advisory Committee members and contained references to religion -
    • Why Is the Day 24 Hours? And, When Will the Millennium Begin? - Owen Gingerich
      Darwin’s Devolution: Design Without a Designer - Francisco Ayala
February 1997
Seattle, WA
  • Biodiversity and Human Responsibility
    Organizer: Audrey Chapman
  • Implications of the Possibility of Life on Mars
    Organizer: Christopher Corbally
  • The Nature of Time
    Organizers: Audrey Chapman, Lawrence Fagg
  • Seminar -- In addition, the Dialogue Program organized a pre-Annual Meeting Seminar with the newly established Georgetown Center for the Study of Science and Religion -
    Science, Cosmology and Teleology: Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives.
  • Symposium - An additional Annual Meeting Symposium organized by a Dialogue Program Advisory Committee Member* was
    • Alternative Medicine in a Scientific World
      Organizers: Ursula Goodenough*, Robert Park
February 1996
Baltimore, MD
  • Religious, Social and Environmental Factors That Influence Disease States
    Organizers: Harold Koenig, David Larson
 
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