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AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion

AAAS Annual Meeting Symposia

Every year DoSER presents symposia at the AAAS Annual Meeting that serve to increase dialogue in the scientific community about science and religion.

2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 
2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1997 | 1996

   

2013 - February 14-18, Boston, MA

  • 2012 - February 16-20, Vancouver, BC

    2011 - February 17-21, Washington, DC

    2010 - February 18-22, San Diego, CA

    • Genetics and Ethics: Different Views on the Human Condition
      Organizers: Walter Doerfler, University of Cologne, Hans G. Ulrich, Erlangen University
    • Astrobiology and the Future: Science, Ethics, and Societal Issues on Earth and Beyond
      Organizer: Margaret Race, SETI Institute

    2009 - February 12-16, Chicago, IL

    • Meeting on Building the AAAS Science and Religion Coalition
      Organizers: Peyton 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

    2008 - February 14-18, 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

    2007 - February 15-19, 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

    2006 - February 16-20, St. Louis, MO

    2005 - February 17-21, Washington, DC

    2004 - February 12-16, 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.

    2003 - February 13-18, 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

    2002 - February 14-19, 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

    2001 - February 15-20, 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

    2000 - February 17-22, 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

    1999 - January 21-26, 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

    1997 - February, 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

    1996 - February, Baltimore, MD

    • Religious, Social and Environmental Factors That Influence Disease States
      Organizers: Harold Koenig, David Larson
     
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