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. 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1997

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