[alife] The First Roskilde Science Sunrise Conference, 13-15 August 2008

[Titus Brown]

The First Roskilde Science Sunrise Conference, 13-15 August 2008,  
Roskilde, Denmark.

OBS: Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 1, 2008.

The Science Sunrise initiative has been installed to provide an  
international forum for discussing important new scientific  
developments and the broader societal, cultural, political, ethical  
and other challenges such developments may bring about.

Theme for the Science Sunrise Conference in 2008:

Surviving Ourselves: The Human Condition:

How are we to act and interact in the century ahead? Shaping the  
future and grappling with its complexities is a challenge to ourselves  
and at the same time a matter of surviving ourselves since history  
seems to teach us that we are as much problem makers as problem solvers.

What might be the impact on the human condition of two major  
scientific breakthroughs about to be announced:

(1) the laboratory creation of primitive life, and

(2) the possibility of genetic recreation of dead DNA ("awakening the dead")?

By bringing together some of the most renowned politicians, scientists  
and public figures together this first Roskilde Sunrise Conference  
provides a unique forum for discussing some of the scientific, ethical  
and political consequences of these two new possibilities for the  
human race in the 21st century.

Invited speakers:

Mark Bedau / Reed University
David Deamer / UC Santa Cruz
Drew Endy / MIT
Gerald L. Epstein / Center for Strategic and International Studies,  
Washington DC
P. Luigi Luisi / University of Rome
Donald W. Pfaff / Rockefeller University
Pamela Silver / Harvard University, Center for Strategic and  
International Studies (CSIS)
Steen Rasmussen, FLiNT Center, SDU, Denmark
Robert M. Friedman, Vice President for Public Policy, J. Craig Venter  
Institute

For further information, please visit our website: http://sunrise.ruc.dk

Contact: sunrise at ruc.dk