Susan Schneider has been awarded a fellowship by the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ for AY15-16. CTI received a grant from NASA for inquiry into the societal implications of the search for life in the universe, and Susan is a prominent researcher in this area. The fellowship is also partly funded by the Templeton Foundation.
http://www.ctinquiry.org/news/2014/11/07/cti-receives-nasa-grant
Month: May 2015
Lewis Gordon: Birkbeck College of Law Writer-in-Residence
Lewis Gordon has been selected by the PhD program at the Birkbeck College of Law at the University of London to be the 2016 writer-in-residence. Here is some more information about this honor:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/law/our-research/writers-and-artists-in-residence/writer-in-residence
Michael Lynch: Surveillance and Autonomy
Here is Michael Lynch’s widely-shared article from The Guardian about why surveillance diminishes autonomy: