Emergence Conference Program
Thursday, September
28, 2006
Registration ��������������������������� 6:00-7:00 pm
Opening Lecture (open to the public)��������
7:00-8:30 pm
Barbara
King, Professor of Anthropology, The College of William and Mary
�Beyond
Genes and Memes: Evolutionary Science and the Origins of Religion�
Reception ����������������������������� 8:30-9:30 pm
Friday, September
29, 2006
Breakfast������������������������������ 8:00-9:00 am
Session 1:����������������������������
9:00-10:30 am
Welcome
by Antje Jackel�n
Opening Statement by Jim Proctor, Professor of Environmental Studies,
Lewis and Clark College
Greg
Peterson, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, South Dakota
State University
�Species of Emergence�
Session 2:�����������������������������
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Leo Kadanoff, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, University of Chicago
�Breaking a Neck, Making a Splash, the Development of Complexity in Physical
Systems�
Response:
John Albright, Visiting Professor of Religion and Science, Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago; Professor Emeritus of Physics, Purdue
University Calumet
Lunch����������������������������������� 12:30-1:30
pm
Session 3:���������������������������
2:00-3:30 pm
Robert Ulanowicz, Professor of Theoretical Ecology, University of Maryland,
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
"Emergence, Naturally!"
Response: Brooke Parry Hecht, Research Associate, Center for Humans and
Nature, Chicago
Session 4:�����������������������������
4:00-5:30 pm
Anne Foerst, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, St. Bonaventure University
�Emergence in Artificial Intelligence�
Response: ���� Stacey Ake, Assistant
Professor of Philosophy, Drexel University
Dinner������������������������������������ 6:00-7:00
pm
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Breakfast������������������������������ 8:00-9:00 am
Session 5:�����������������������������
9:00-10:30 am
Warren Brown, Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Psychology,
Fuller Theological Seminary, Member UCLA Brain Research Institute
�Neuropsychology, Emergence, and Human Agency�
Response: Carl Gillett, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Illinois Wesleyan
University
Session 6:����������������������������10:45
am -12:15 pm
Antje Jackel�n, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology/Religion and
Science, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; Director of the Zygon Center
for Religion and Science
Title of Lecture:���������� "Emergence
- A Viable Vision for Theology?"
Philip Hefner, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Lutheran School
of Theology at Chicago/Senior Fellow, Zygon Center for Religion and Science
Title of Lecture:���������� "Emergence
as Story, Hope, and Promise"
Lunch
and Discussion��������� 12:15-1:30
pm