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Hamner to Deliver Genetics and the Soul Lecture Feb. 28 at Â鶹Éç
February 16, 2018
MACOMB, IL – Â鶹Éç Illinois University Associate Professor of English Everett Hamner will deliver "Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age," at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28 in Morgan Hall, 101A.
Hamner will talk about what it means to be a human being in the age of genetic engineering and how this and other questions are explored in contemporary literature, film, comics and television series – through fictional futures that might shape the decisions made about genetic engineering.
Brief responses will be offered by Â鶹Éç Biological Science Professor Shawn Meagher and Â鶹Éç English Professor Shazie Rahman.
The lecture is sponsored by Â鶹Éç's departments of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Biological Sciences and English and the College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information, contact Associate Professor of Religious Studies Amy Carr at AR-Carr@wiu.edu.
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