EMBL Forum seminars on Science and Society
The seminars series "EMBL Forum on Science and Society" was launched in 1998 to promote awareness within our institute of the impact that work within the life sciences is having on society. The EMBL Forum serves as an arena for interdisciplinary events and activities highlighting the ways in which recent developments within the life sciences in general, and within molecular biology in particular, are having a profound impact on people, their societies as well as their cultures. We invite speakers – experts within various disciplines of science and the humanities – on a regular basis to the EMBL to give public lectures on topics of interest.
What we hope to accomplish with these seminars is to explore and to communicate to diverse audiences the complex nature of the relationships that link the life sciences and society.
Upcoming Forums
Friday, 13 January 2012, 16.00, PETRA 48e Seminar Room, EMBL Hamburg
The (Very Gradual) Emergence of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory
Arthur J. Conner Professor of History Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Monday, 13 February 2012, 16.00 in the Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
The importance and ethics of basic neuroscience research with non-human primates
Dr. Stefan Treue, University of Göttingen
Friday, 16 March 2012, 16.00 in the Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
Soul Dust: the Magic of Consciousness
Nicholas Humphrey, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the London School of Economics
Thursday, 10 May 2012, 16.00 in the Large Operon, EMBL Heidelberg
Deadly Elixir: Science and the Promise of Immortality
Stephen Cave, philosopher and writer