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20/20 Visions of the Future:
Anticipating the year 2020

An International Symposium

Global Population Dilemmas
Saturday, March 4
Cabot Auditorium, 2:30pm

Monica Das Gupta
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University School of Public Health

John Field
Professor of Nutrition and Political Science, Tufts University; Author, Challenge of Famine: Recent Experiences, Lessons Learned

Jack Goldstone
Director, Center for Comparative Research in History, Society, and Culture, University of California/Davis; Participant, Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacities, and Civil Violence, AAAS

Stuart Levy
Director, Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance, Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, and Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

Moderator: Michele Shaffer, EPIIC Colloquium

Saturday

Genethics: The Implications of Genetic Research and Engineering

The Made and the Born: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life

Net Sentience: An On-Line digital Dialogue

Global Population Dilemmas

Ecological Interdependences: Environmental Issues and Trends for the Future

Integration or Disintegration? The Transformation of the International System

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