[Peakoil] FW: SCIENCE & ETHICS CONFERENCE

[Adrian Whitehead]

SCIENCE AND ETHICS:
CAN HOMO SAPIENS SURVIVE?
A conference organised by Manning Clark House
in honour of Professor Frank Fenner

At the Shine Dome
Australian Academy of Science
Australian National University
17-18 May, 2005


Tuesday 17 May, 2005

9.00 Introductions: Sebastian Clark, Andrew Glikson, Penny Ramsay
9.20 Professor Frank Fenner: Scientific principles, scientific ethics and
the dangers for the survival of Homo sapiens.

Session A - Keynote papers. Chair - Hilary Charlesworth

9.45 Phillip Adams: Science and Pandora's Box - can the "genie" be
returned to the bottle?

10.20 morning tea

10.40 David H Green (Professor of Earth Science, ANU): The role of
science in societies, including ethics in science and ethical
responsibility of scientists.
11.10 Clive Hamilton (Executive Director, The Australia Institute): The
effects of automation on humanity and civilization.
11.40 Geoff Davies (geophysicist and social commentator, ANU):
Playing with superfire - misapplication of technology to complex
natural systems.
12.10 Session A panel discussion

12.40 lunch

Session B - Threats to the biosphere. Chair - Clive Hamilton

14.00 Stephen Boyden (human ecologist and bio-historian; founder and
patron of the Nature and Society Forum): The ecological
predicament: science, ethics and the future.
14.30 Andrew Glikson (Earth scientist and author): The geological and
biological origins of mass extinctions, with reference to the impact
of Homo sapiens on the biosphere.

15.00 afternoon tea

15.20 John Chappell (prehistoric geochronology and palaeoclimate
research, ANU): Long-term changes in the hydrosphere and the
atmosphere: natural versus anthropomorphic effects.
15.50 Michael Raupach (CSIRO Earth Observation Centre and Global
Carbon Project): Ethical dimension of climate change.
16.20 Prame Chopra (geophysicist and geothermal energy specialist,
ANU): Humanity's use and misuse of energy: must power be
corrupt?
16.50 Session B panel discussion

19.00 Conference dinner


Wednesday 18 May, 2005

Session C - Nuclear and biotechnological threats.
Chair - Michael Raupach

9.00 Opening address - Senator Lyn Allison (leader of the Democrats,
The Australian Senate)
9.30 Des Ball (Research School of Strategic Studies, ANU): The
probabilities of Neville Shute's "On The Beach" scenario in the
21st Century?
10.00 Michael Denborough (John Curtin School of Medical Research,
ANU): The nuclear arms race is madness: diagnosis and cures.

10.30 morning tea

11.00 Peter Collignon (Professor of Medical Science, Canberra
Hospital): Ethical aspects of the abuse of antibiotics and of genetic
engineering - is Homo sapiens in danger of creating a "superbug"?
11.30 Session C panel discussion

12.00 lunch

Session D - The ethical dimension of science. Chair - David Green

13.00 James Haire (President, National Council of Churches in
Australia) and Christine Ledger (Centre Manager, Australian
Centre for Christianity and Culture): Theology, science and
technology.
13.30 Nikolai Blaskow (Radford College): Can humanism be maintained
in a cybernetic world?
14.00 Keith Price (Philosopher - integral intelligence): Being human -
computers and science.

14.25 afternoon tea

14.40 Sue Wareham (Medicals for Prevention of Nuclear War): Can
scientists halt the technological race to nowhere?
15.05 Margaret Bearlin (lecturer in peace education): Educating the
young in a world of change: What should they learn, how should
they learn, who should learn and for what purpose?
15.30 Tony Kevin: The origins of hope.
15.55 Session D panel discussion

16.20 afternoon tea

Session E - Lessons from Aboriginal survival in a harsh continent.
Chair - Sebastian Clark

16.40 John Mulvaney (Emeritus Professor of Australian prehistory):
Australian prehistory as a guide for survival over 40 000 years in
a harsh continent.
17.10 Marcia Langton (Professor of Aboriginal history, University of
Melbourne): Lessons for European civilization and for Australia
from Aboriginal history and culture.
17.40 Anne Edgeworth: Icarus - a poem
17.50 Professor John White, (representative of the Australian Academy
of Science): concluding remarks.




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