Did key ideas in religious thought ultimately prove critical to the birth of science? Could recognizing the religious roots of modern science promote better engagement of religion and science today?
What have we learned about religion and conflict over the last 20 years, and what does the future hold? As the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict begins its 20th anniversary year, John Carlson reflects on these questions. Using two important timestamps—September 11, 2001 and January 6, 2021—he considers how the assumptions and conclusions that emerged in relation to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 have been replicated—yet also upended—by the 1/6 attack upon the U.S.
Sentenced to death for a lurid 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside San Quentin, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.
Join us for a community discussion in which we talk through the myths about the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, and the DeafBlind. Often times these are regarded as "invisible" disabilities, and people a part of these communities are often misunderstood. In this event we will gather to learn and grow in awareness about these communities.
Join us for a preview screening of an exclusive hour-long excerpt of Storming Caesars Palace, followed by a community discussion with local experts, academics, and activists working in the field of income equity and economic justice (guest details to come).
Over the past decade or so, "True Crime" as an entertainment has become extremely popular. Streaming services have hundreds of series on the topic, and 50% of the top charting podcasts are True Crime Podcasts. What is this human fascination that has become such entertainment? Is this a form of trauma porn?
Join ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination in partnership with Majestic Neighborhood Cinema in Tempe to view Outland on the silver screen. This screening is part of a greater film series: The History of the Future, exploring gripping, cinematic visions of the future across the past four decades.
Join us Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. for a screening of Outland, an off-world crime thriller from 1981 that depicts drug trafficing gripping the workforce of a mining colony on Jupiter's moon, Io.
Join ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination in partnership with Majestic Neighborhood Cinema in Tempe to view Soylent Green on the silver screen. This screening is part of a greater film series: The History of the Future, exploring gripping, cinematic visions of the future across the past four decades.
Join us Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. for a screening of Soylent Green, an ecological thriller from 1973 that depicts food insecurity and overpopulation in the (then) far-off future year of 2022.
Join Devils4Devils, the Accessibility Coalition, IfYou’reReadingtThis.org and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for the Out of the Darkness Campus Walk at Arizona State University on March 18. It's free to register or create a team! Funds raised benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and their work to fund research, create educational programs, advocate for public policy and support survivors of suicide loss.
Join us for a preview screening of an exclusive hour-long excerpt of Love in the Time of Fentanyl, followed by a community discussion with local experts and activists working in this field.
This upcoming episode from the acclaimed PBS documentary series Independent Lens, Love in the Time of Fentanyl, takes us inside a safe injection site that gives hope to a marginalized community ravaged by fentanyl deaths.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023