The Hyde Park Religion and Science Society and the Zygon Center for Religion and Science are pleased to announce the second annual Student Symposium on Science and Spirituality, to be held on Friday, April 16, 2010 at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Chicago, Illinois). The Student Symposium is a one-day conference designed to provide an interdisciplinary, ecumenical, and inter-religious forum for graduate students in any academic discipline to engage in rigorous and collaborative conversations in religion and science. Our first symposium in 2009 drew more than 70 participants and featured more than 30 student speakers and panelists from 17 schools across the United States and Canada.
This year, the symposium is organized around the following questions:
What makes us human?
Is there such a thing as human nature?
How do our ideas about human nature relate to God, the sacred, or the world?
Graduate students from all academic disciplines are invited to submit brief paper proposals by January 15, 2010. Invited papers presented at the symposium will be eligible for cash prizes, online publication, and dissemination to leaders in the religion and science community.
For more information, please see the Call for Papers or visit "Hyde Park Religion and Science Society" on Facebook. Please send paper proposals, final papers, and any other correspondence to hprssstudentsymposium@gmail.com.
