About this Event
The History and Future of Religion in U.S. Bioethics: Will a Religious Voice Re-emerge?
Join us for an Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion public seminar with Professor John Evans (Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego).
In this talk Professor John Evans will discuss the field of bioethics, which in the U.S. and the UK exists to give policy-makers ethical advice on new biotechnologies. At the formation of bioethics in the U.S. in the 1960s the field was theological. Now, theologians are no longer involved with the mainstream debate. Professor Evans will explain how this transformation happened and whether theological voices will be able to re-enter the future debate.
Event Details:
- Date: Monday, 4 May 2026
- Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
- Location: Room 00.018 (Learning Centre, Ground Floor) Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, University of Oxford
- Registration necessary
- Open to the public
- A wine reception will follow the public seminar in the Faculty of Theology and Religion (third floor, Schwarzman Centre), providing an opportunity to meet the speaker and fellow attendees.
About the Speaker: John H. Evans is the Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego. He has been elected to the honorific societies in the disciplines of bioethics, sociology and the study of the relationship between religion and science. His research examines the relationship between religion and science, particularly concerning new biotechnologies. His most recent book is Disembodied Brains: Understanding our Intuitions on Neuro-Chimeras and Human-Brain Organoids (2024, OUP). He is working on a book tentatively titled Making Superior Humans: How We Think about Human Enhancement.
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00.018 (Learning Centre), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, United Kingdom
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