The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Marquette University and Viterbo University are co-hosting a seminar series, Big Questions at the Intersection of Bioscience and Religion. This series is comprised of four interdisciplinary sessions, each focused on a specific question about the human being and modeling dialogue between bioscientific and religious perspectives. Our focus questions revolve around the questions of human origin, its essence, its fatedness, and its uniqueness. In an increasingly polarized world, bridging discursive and informational divides between scientific and religious communities is urgently needed. The first session of our series will focus on the question “What is human uniqueness”.

Each session will have a scientist and theologian to explore these conversations. Each speaker will speak for about 20-25 minutes and then work through a series of questions from the moderator before opening up to queries from the audience.

Scientist: Jennifer Wiseman, PhD, Astronomer and Emeritus Director of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Theologian: Jonathan Crane, PhD, MPhil, MA, Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar of Bioethics and Jewish Thought at the Ethics Center, and Professor of Medicine and Religion at Emory University

This session will be held at the Medical College of Wisconsin on December 5th, 2022, 5:30pm-7pm.