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The Future of Humanity: Scientific and Humanistic Perspectives


A Two-Day Virtual Conference

LIVE ONLINE
We are bringing together scientists and humanists for two afternoons to discuss our collective future from different perspectives. Moderated by ICE@Dartmouth Director Marcelo Gleiser.

Speakers:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Human Rights Activist and Author
Mary Flanagan, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College
Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Rochester
John Haldane, Professor of Moral Philosophy Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews; Professor of Virtue Theory, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham; Professor of Philosophy of Education, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Sue Halpern, Author and Scholar-in-Residence, Middlebury College
Elizabeth Kolbert, Science Writer and Journalist
Bill McKibben, Author, Educator, and Environmentalist
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of the United Kingdom, Trinity College, Cambridge University
Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Writer
Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Terry Tempest Williams, Author, Advocate for Free Speech, and Conservationist

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