Center for Biology and Society Conversation Series

Co-sponsored with SOLS Life Science Ethics program

Conversation Series

Advancing knowledge

The goal of each conversation is to present a contemporary issue of common interest in a way that is accessible to a cross-disciplinary audience and then show how to advance it from the point of view of one or more disciplines. Having scholars from different disciplines engage with each other in discussion is very exciting. Join us!


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2019-2020

2019 Fall Flyer

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Charles Kazilek, Karla Moeller, Carolina Abboud and Dina Ziganshina
Taking Research To Classrooms and the General Public: Ask A Biologist and the Embryo Project
Wednesday, September 25
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Christy Spackman and Anna Guerrero
Disrupting Lab Work
Wednesday, October 30
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Carla Nappi and Paige Madison
Being Outside of Traditional Scholarship Boxes
Wednesday, November 20
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Kate MacCord and B. Duygu Özpolat
History and Philosophy and Germ Line
Wednesday, January 22
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Françoise Baylis, Benjamin Hurlbut and Sanghamitra Das
Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing - a book discussion
Wednesday, February 5
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2018-2019

2018-2019 Flyer

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Jane Maienschein and Carolina Abboud
Raising the Bar for Embryos in the Law
Wednesday, September 12
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Sara Brownell and Logan Gin
Inclusive and Elite: Can they co-exist in higher education?
Wednesday, October 17
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Stephen J. Pyne
Scholar on Fire, Soul on Ice
Wednesday, November 14
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Leah Gerber, Elliott Millinor, Greg Kaebnick
Organizing concepts in biodiversity conservation
Wednesday, January 30
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Beckett Sterner, Michael Schoon, Michelle Sullivan
Organizing stakeholder collaborations in biodiversity conservation
Wednesday, March 27
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Ben Minteer, Jonathan Losos, Ryan Davila
Organizing institutions for effective biodiversity protection
Wednesday, April 10

2017-2018

2018 Spring Flyer  2017 Fall Flyer

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Matthew Chew, Carolina Abboud, Sean Cohmer
On the Invasion of Species and other Undead Metaphors in Biology
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Nico Franz, Kelle Dhein
The limits of synthesis for integrative biology
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Jessica Bolker, Beckett Sterner, Sean Cohmer
Animal models in translational research: Rosetta Stone or stumbling block? 
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Tyler DesRoches, Charles Perrings, Ashley Cahmi
Are there any ecological conditions that are essential to sustainability?
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Ann Kinzig, Liz Barnes
What is the role of university in solving society's problems?
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Zachary Horne, Beckett Sterner, Jonathan LaTourelle
The influence of cognitive biases on scientific explanation

2016-2017

2016-2017 Flyer

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Manfred Laubichler, Ken Aiello, Deryc Painter
How Does Something Genuinely New Emerge in Evolution and History?
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Stephen J. Pyne, Charllie Facemire
America's Great Cultural Revolution on Fire
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Karin Ellison, Charllie Facemire, JJ LaTourelle, Michelle Sullivan
How Can We Infuse Ethics into the School of Life Sciences?
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Susan Fitzpatrick, Kate MacCord
Make the Peaks Higher
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Ben J. Hurlbut, Christian Ross
Gene Editing, Bioethics, and Emerging Challenges of Governance
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Ben Minteer, Mark Klett
Wild Visions: Imaging and Imagining the American Wilderness
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