FAITH WARS
SUNDAY 02 MAY, 5:15PM
The ideological square-off between religion and science is here to stay... or is it? Perhaps the dichotomy is a falsehood, and everyone will learn to live and let live. Or perhaps faith will become the fracture point of an energy-hungry civilization, a warring sphere of philosophies.
What will we believe in 2050? Is believing that others should act according to our beliefs the fault that unites the two sides of the argument?
Chair: Paul Graham Raven
Panellists:
Andrew Copson became Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association after five years’ coordinating their education and public affairs work. He has written on humanist and secularist issues for numerous publications.
Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He actively debates evolution and creationism on both sides of the Atlantic. His latest book is
Science: The Art of Living.
China Miéville is a two-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and the
British Fantasy Award. The City & The City,
an existential thriller, was published in 2009 to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka, Orwell and Phillip K. Dick.
Ruth Gledhill has been religious affairs correspondent for The Times, London for 21 years where she also writes the blog, Articles of Faith. She joined the paper in 1987 as a news reporter.
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SATURDAY 01 MAY, 2.15PM
3D printing, rapid prototyping, offshore outsourcing, automation, evolutionary design software, expert systems, voice processing and synthesis... technologies, network economies and geopolitical shifts are currently making mincemeat out of many careers and jobs that have lasted for centuries.
What will we be doing to earn a living in 2050; what will seem as archaic as a thatcher or fletcher does today? And what will fill the days (and pockets and bellies) of the unemployed?
Chair: Paul Graham Raven
Panellists include:
Soichiro Tsuda is Leverhulme Research Fellow at University of the West of England and Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. She works with slime mould robots and many other interesting things.
Prof. James Woudhuysen is co-author of Energise! A future of energy innovation, and of BIG POTATOES: The London Manifesto for Innovation. He is also
Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Sharmini Brookes writes a blog on the nature of work called Working Matters and is Session Convenor at Institute of Ideas. Her work in the public sector and as an active trade unionist places her at the heart of current discussions about work today.
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