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Host: Roskilde University
Sponsor: Roskilde University
Homepage: http://sunrise.ruc.dk
Email: sunrise@ruc.dk
Organizers: Vincent F. Hendricks Poul Holm Frederik Stjernfelt Annette Warring Jeppe Dyre Jakob Thorfing John Gallagher
Deadline for abstracts: May 30, 2008
Description:
The Science Sunrise initiative has been installed to provide an international forum for discussing important new scientific developments and the broader societal, cultural, political, ethical and other challenges such developments may bring about.
The First Roskilde Science Sunrise Conference 2008
Surviving Ourselves: The Human Condition
August 13-15, 2008
How are we to act and interact in the century ahead? Shaping the future and grappling with its complexities is a challenge to ourselves and at the same time a matter of surviving ourselves since history seems to teach us that we are as much problem makers as problem solvers.
What might be the impact on the human condition of two major scientific breakthroughs about to be announced:
(1) the laboratory creation of primitive life, and
(2) the possibility of genetic recreation of dead DNA ("awakening the dead")?
By bringing together some of the most renowned politicians, scientists and public figures together this first Roskilde Sunrise Conference provides a unique forum for discussing some of the scientific, ethical and political consequences of these two new possibilities for the human race in the 21st century.
Mail Address:
Roskilde Science Sunrise Conference Att: Lisa Rimstad Jacobsen Roskilde University Universitetsvej 1, 04.2 DK4000 Roskilde Denmark Phone: +45 4674 2995 Fax: +45 4674 3000
Submitted by: Vincent F. Hendricks
Date received: April 08, 2008, revised April 17, 2008
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