Narratives of Hope: Science, Theology and Environmental Public Policy
Talk
Professor Tom McLeish, Department of Physics
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Event date
Wednesday 5 February 2020, 4pm to 6pm
Location
Room W/N/222, Wentworth College, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
Admission
Free admission, booking not required
Event details
Sociology Lecture
Interdisciplinary collaborations between scientists/technologists, social scientists and philosophers/theologians have revealed deeply submerged yet powerful narratives at work beneath public discourse on controversial technologies.
Professor McLeish will consider two examples of collaborations with human geographers, on nanotechnology and GM crops, in detail. Resources for narrative analysis and reflection are, surprisingly, found in the ancient wisdom-literature text The Book of Job, which has received more philosophical attention than any other biblical book.