Narratives of Hope: Science, Theology and Environmental Public Policy
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Event date
Wednesday 19 June 2019, 1pm to 2pm
Location
TBA, Wentworth College, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to staff
Booking
Booking not required
Event details
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. I 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.
About the speaker
Tom McLeish, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics
Venue details
Wheelchair accessible
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