CiS Conversations - Science, Religion and the Human Future: Conflict, Collusion and Consequences

Link to discussion book - https://academic.oup.com/book/61786

Join us online as we explore more about this new book and reflect on the ideas it highlights. Contributing authors Professor Amanda Rees and the Revd Professor Charlotte Sleigh will unpack how ideas of conflict and collusion in science and religion can be entangled with one another. The results of this can have unexpected a real life consequences for today across a range of unexpected outlets ranging from how we think about pandemics to space travel and AI!

Amanda Rees is a Professor of Sociology at the University of York. After studying for a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science she has published across a range of connected and fascinating areas including the history of the field sciences, history and sociology of the relationship between humans and other animals, the history of prehistory and most recently on studying the history of the future (often through the writings and works of science fiction literature and media).

Charlotte Sleigh is a researcher, writer and practitioner across the science humanities and science communication. She has also been involved with a number of art and science projects and various forms of climate science communication. She has written widely on science and literature and on science fiction and early fandom in Britain. In recent years, Charlotte has been focusing on intersections between theology and science. She is research consultant for the international project Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science and is a former editor of the British Journal for the History of Science and former president of the British Society for the History of Science.