womzilla | If I still lived in Durham...

I'd certainly go to this event featuring

In about a week I'm going to speak at a symposium on science and religion at Duke University. The symposium is called "Competing Cosmologies, Effecting Worlds: The Intersections of Science and Religion." I'm sharing the bill with Kim Stanley Robinson and two academics: Bruce Lincoln, a professor in the University of Chicago's Divinity Department; and Michael Taussig, another professor, from Columbia University's Anthropology Department. Heavy hitters, anyone?

My speech's title is "Ifa Cosmology: Reverence, Science, and Social Technology." The title of this post is another way of putting what I mean to say. I'll talk for maybe 25 minutes and read a section from my story "Good Boy." That's the one I call my "space negro" story, featuring John Lilly, Parliament/Funkadelic, and divine possession. I'll round off my hour with a Q&A session, and the symposium's last hour will also be devoted to discussion.

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Open to the public and free of charge. If you happen to be somewhere near Durham, NC on January 29, I highly recommend you attend.