AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Events: AAAS Annual Meeting Symposia: Archive

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

• Ethics of Neuroscience: Lack of Consciousness and Assessment of Personhood
  Organizers: Stephanie Bird, Science and Engineering Ethics; and Jim Miller, AAAS Science and Policy Programs
• Neuroscience of Ethics: Material Foundations of Moral Agency
  Organizers: Stephanie Bird, Science and Engineering Ethics; and Jim Miller, AAAS Science and Policy Programs
• Constitutional Principles and Legal Strategies in the Creation and Evolution Debates
  Organizers: Gilbert Whittemore, Rath, Young, and Pignatelli and American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law; and Connie Bertka, AAAS Science and Policy Programs

17-21 February 2005
Washington, DC

• Non-Overlapping Magisteria?
  Organizers: Phillip R. Sloan, University of Notre Dame; James Miller, AAAS Science and Policy Programs

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