S&S Dinner Dialogues, with Professor Priscilla Wald - Science and Science Fiction
Event Details
The computer running your spaceship has turned homicidal; you have crash landed on a planet run by talking apes. Your little sister can read your mind; your future is revealed in the DNA sample taken moments after your birth. From space travel to time travel, from mind control to genetic manipulation, from aliens to sentient robots, no genre has more fully captured—and influenced–the relationship between important scientific discoveries and profound geopolitical and social transformations than science fiction. If you have a passion for science fiction, a curiosity about how it has sparked the scientific imagination, or just want to know more about it, let’s talk!
Readings:
Professor Priscilla Wald is Professor of English.
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Where to meet:
Selected attendees will be notified via email several days in advance of the dinner with details regarding meeting location. All dinners will be within reasonable driving distance to Duke campus.
Science & Society will also provide a shuttle for those unable to arrange transportation to the dinner dialogue location. Shuttles will depart 30 minutes before the scheduled event from the front entrance of the North Building on West Campus. Click here for a map.