For Scholars
New Visions Core Participants Selected
The New Visions Steering
Committee
selection of core scholarly participants features a diverse,
internationally-recognized group drawn from the natural sciences,
social and behavioral sciences, and humanities and theology. These core
participants have substantially contributed to collaborative
research focusing on contemporary metaphors of biophysical and human
nature across the science-humanities spectrum, exploring ways to
harmonize these diverse visions of nature and their scientific and
religious dimensions. The results of this two-year collaboration were
presented and discussed in a major public conference at UC Santa
Barbara in the spring of 2006.
For background information our New Visions core participants, click here. For details on the first core participant workshop, which took place in Santa Barbara on Oct. 22 and 23, 2004, click here.
New Visions Visiting Professors and Guest Scholars To Be Named
The Steering Committee will soon announce a distinguished list of visiting
professors drawn from our core participant group, who will reside
in UC Santa Barbara between fall 2004 and spring 2006 in order to present
public lectures, collaborate with fellow scholars,
lead
graduate seminars, and interact with undergraduate students.
Additionally, we recruited a high-caliber group of guest scholars drawn from across the academic spectrum to briefly visit UC Santa Barbara in pairs between fall 2004 and spring 2006 and present distinguished public lectures and conversations, as part of a series entitled Dialogues in Nature, Science, and Religion. Each of the Dialogues series featured two prominent guest scholars representing very different disciplines whose work nonetheless converges on a common theme.