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 Jackelén
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 Jackelén, 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