DoSER has been hosting public lectures since the spring of 2001 to highlight significant work in the field of science and religion and help inform the public on science and religion issues.
2020
Imagining Different Worlds: Science, Ethics, and Faith in Science Fiction
9 December 2020
2019
A Climate of Hope: Scientists and Faith Communities Addressing the Climate Crisis
17 December, 2019
2018
The Tapestry of Health: Genetic Diversity, History, and Cultural Identity
18 December 2018
2017
Of Minds and Machines: What Artificial Intelligence Tells Us About Ourselves
4 December 2017
2016
Advancing Together: Cooperation and Creativity in Human Evolution
7 December 2016
2015
The Art of Science and Spirit
2 December 2015
2014
Did My Brain Make Me Do It? Neuroscience and Morality
11 December 2014
2013
Conversations: Science, Scientists, and the Human Spirit
11 December 2013
Exoplanets and Life Beyond Earth
19 June 2013
2012
Are We Only Our Genes?
13 December 2012
Losing the Night Sky
10 May 2012
2011
Can Science Explain Everything?
6 December 2011
2010
What do Scientists Believe? Religion Among Scientists and Implications for Public Perceptions
15 December 2010
Re-Envisioning the Science and Religion Dialogue
16 June 2010
2007
AAAS Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Seminar
23 June 2007
2006
What New Technology is Telling Us About the Dead Sea Scrolls
18 October 2006
Human Evolution, Why Do Experts Disagree?
4 May 2006
The Origin of Species: What Do We Really Know?
20 April 2006
George V. Coyne, Director of the Vatican Observatory:
The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Chance and Destiny Embrace
27 March 2006
Chance or Necessity – Modeling Origins of Life
26 January
2005
The Assembly of Protocells
1 December 2005
Synthetic Biology: Hardware, Software, and Wetware
10 November 2005
Evolution of Biological Complexity
20 October 2005
Searching for a Second Genesis of Life in Our Solar System
22 September 2005
Genes, Memes, Spirituality, and Religion
26 May 2005
Naturalness versus the Superstring Landscape, or, Why Does The Universe Appear Finely Tuned?
28 April 2005
2004
Science and Religion in Science Fiction
2 December 2004
Genome Lineages and the Evolution of Life
4 November 2004
Toward a Remembrance of Things Past: Solving Alzheimers Disease
23 September 2004
Affective Computing: Toward Computers That Recognize and Respond to Human Emotion
20 May 2004
Is the Universe Lively or Lonely? The Quest for World’s and Life beyond Our Solar System
15 April 2004
Paradigm Shift?
21 March 2004
What Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature and the Meaning of Art
18 March 2004
Evidence and Cosmology: What we have learned from NASA’s cosmic radiation probe
19 February 2004
What Ants and Bees Tell Us about Social Networks
22 January 2004
2003
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: The Next Big Idea is Really Small
4 December 2003
Galileo and the Church: The myth and the reality
13 November 2003
Wild Justice and Fair Play: Animal Origins of Social Morality
October 16, 2003
Time to Abandon Darwin? The Challenge from Intelligent Design
22 May 2003
Three Laws of Behavior Genetics and What They Mean
10 April 2003
Life Elsewhere? Astrobiology, Science, and Society
27 March 2003
Before the Beginning …. The Return of the Cyclic Universe
16 January 2003
2002
Darwin’s Cathedral – Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society
12 November 2002
Neanderthals: Who were they, what happened to them, how are they related to us?
10 October 2002
Sleepless in Washington: Pharmacological engineering of human needs
September 19, 2002
Evolution of the Extraordinary in Human Life
28 May 2002
Avoiding the Sixth Major Extinction, Why it Matters
11 April 2002
Ethical Issues Arising from the Study of the Human Genome
7 March 2002
Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
27 February 2002
Food and Biotechnology: The Ethical Issues
17 January 2002
2001
Cosmology and Kabbalah
29 November 2001
The Cloning of Mammals: What are the Implications for Human Cloning?
25 October 2001
Science, Religion, and the Origin of Life
13 September 2001
Flesh & Machines
31 May 2001
Evolution & the Quest for Purpose
26 April 2001
Physics, Metaphysics and Meaning
29 March 2001
Inheritable Genetic Modifications and its Ethical, Religious, and Policy Implications
9 March 2001