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| Technology & Society 2003 Lecture Series |
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| Sponsored by the Biotechnology and American Democracy Program |
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The Ethics and Public Policy Center invites you to the first annual lecture series on technology, ethics, and American politics — an effort to refine and enlarge the public debate about how technological advances will change American society. This year’s lectures bring together six leading scholars, journalists, and public voices to discuss “Technology and the American Future.”
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| Past Conferences |
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| Embryo Research and the American Character |
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Thursday, May 1, 2003
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| Over the past few years, a great debate has begun about the beginning of life and the ends of medicine. The debate has often overlapped with the deep divide over abortion rights, but it is becoming |
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| Biotechnology and the Remaking of Parenthood |
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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
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| In the third lecture in our series on technology and society, Amy Laura Hall will consider the transforming effect of new reproductive technologies on our ideas of parenthood and childhood. |
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| Technology and Political Responsibility |
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Wednesday, February 19, 2003
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| Is modern technology a burden or a blessing? A political dream or a moral and political nightmare? How will different technologies-biochemical and genetic manipulation, weapons of mass destruction, |
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| Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls |
| Biotech & the Pursuit of Perfection |
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Thursday, January 9, 2003
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The Ethics and Public Policy Center invites you to the inaugural lecture in a new lecture series on technology, ethics, and American politics - an effort to refine and enlarge the public debate |
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here. Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog has said, "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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Dr. Peter Berger spoke at EPPC's most recent 
EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel's latest book,