Yale Bulletin and Calendar

August 29, 2003|Volume 32, Number 1|Two-Week Issue

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Technology and Ethics talk will explore the 'post/human'

Elaine Graham, the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester, will deliver a lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 3, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program's "Technology and Ethics" working research group.

Titled "The Politics of the Post/Human," Graham's lecture will begin at 4:15 p.m. at ISPS, 77 Prospect St. The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

Graham will discuss how advances in medical, reproductive, genetic and information technologies serve to confuse the boundaries between humans, machines and nature.

She has served as the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester since 1998, and is the author of numerous articles and books. Her most recent book, "Representations of the Post/Human," considers the relationship between science, religion and popular culture in a digital and biotechnological age.

Technology and change topic of next ISPS lecture

David D. Friedman, professor of law at Santa Clara University, will visit the campus on Wednesday, Sept. 10.

Friedman will speak to the "Technology and Ethics" working research group in a lecture titled "Future Imperfect: Dealing with Technological Change" at 4:15 p.m. at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

In his talk, Friedman will examine technological change and how "preventing change is probably not an option, but dealing with it in ways that reduce threats and preserve opportunities may be." He believes that technological change alters the world in ways that creates both problems and opportunities and will discuss both in his lecture.

Friedman, who has spent the past 15 years specializing in the economic analysis of legal institutions, is the author of seven books and numerous journal articles.

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