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Week Seven: The Science of Us
The Science of Us
In the midst of robust debates about tribalism, isolation and bridging differences, this wide-ranging week explores how 21st-century science is disrupting our social and historical understandings of how “us” happens and who “we” are — as communities, demographies, families, nations and a human race.
- We look at America’s long narrative of folklore and our “melting pot” narrative.
- We explore our obsession with — along with the limitations and repercussions of — genealogical/ancestry services.
- What are the emerging scientific understandings of heritage and ethnicity?
- How is science is informing community development and our socioeconomic models going forward?
Interfaith Lecture Theme :: The Spirituality of Us
In the midst of concerns about tribalism, isolation, and seemingly incompatible cultural world views, the spirit of the world’s traditions — East, West, indigenous, and divined — continues to communicate essential wisdom and to weave tapestries of spiritual truth that reveal the “Us” of the world’s varieties of peoples. Be with us this week as we uncover emanations of the wondrous and mysterious wholeness that we in the U.S. are meant to be.