Seminar & Lecture Schedule: Spring 2008

Unless otherwise noted, events are on Mondays, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, in Room 214, Harriman Hall.

 
February 11
Martin Marty, University of Chicago; Stony Brook Templeton Fellow 2007-8
"Some Basics of 'Basic Trust'"
February 25
Dmitry Khodyakov, Rutgers University, Sociology
“Counterpoint: Trust and Control in Conductorless Orchestras”
March 3
Alfred S. Goldhaber, Stony Brook University, Physics Department
“A Scientist’s Faith”
March 24
Adam Seligman, Boston University, Department of Religion
“Some Reflections on Trust, Experience, and the Parsing of Ambiguity”
March 31 Elof Carlson, Biochemistry, Stony Brook University
“Neither Gods Nor Beasts: How Science is Changing Who We Think We Are”
April 7 Cancelled: Wade L. Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology, Hale Chair in Applied Ethics
“Truth and Trust”
April 14 Paul Forman, Curator, Div. of Medicine & Science, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
“What in Contemporary Culture Accounts for the Loss of Trust in Science?”
Provost’s Lecture: 4:30 pm in Room 1006, Humanities Building
April 17
Nanda Golden, Stony Brook University, Philosophy Department
“The Three Sources of Trust in Aristotle's Rhetoric”
April 28 Martin Marty, University of Chicago; Stony Brook Templeton Fellow 2007-8
"The Public's Trust and the Public Trusts"
Provost’s Lecture: 4:30 pm in Room 1006, Humanities Building
May 2 (Friday): Final Event: Retreat at the Little Portion Friary
 

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