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PROJECT HUMANITIES FALL 2012 KICKOFF ARE WE LOSING OUR HUMANITY? Project Humanites explores the ways we connect with each other and make meaning of our shared experiences. humanities.asu.edu For more information on these and other Project Humanities events Free and Open to the Public. Talking · Listening · Connecting Wednesday, September 12, 5:15-7 p.m. Physical Sciences F-wing, Room 123, Tempe campus RSVP at http://csi.asu.edu/tvdinner Alan Dean Foster and other respondents will discuss the episode and its implications for our culture’s imagination about science, exploration, and encounters with the Other. End of the Golden Age: Science Fiction Before and After the Atomic Bomb Wednesday, September 12, 1-2 p.m. Noble Science Library, Tempe campus RSVP at http://csi.asu.edu/goldenage Alan Dean Foster will discuss his experiences working with fellow science fiction editor John W. Campbell. Science Fiction TV Dinner Series Launch Star Trek: The Original Series Science Fiction TV Dinner Series Launch Star Trek: The Original Series Alan Dean Foster and Braden R. Allenby will discuss the classic episode “Arena” and its im- plications for our culture’s imagination about science, exploration, and encoun- ters with the Other. Alan Dean Foster is a celebrated science fiction writer and contributor to the Star Trek, Star Wars, Chronicles of Riddick and Alien franchises. Mr. Foster is the story writer for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and recently wrote the novel versions of the new Star Trek reboot and Terminator: Salvation. Braden R. Allenby is Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics; President’s Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, and of Law; Founding Chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Opera- tions, and National Security; and Found- ing Director of the Center for Earth Sys- tems Engineering and Management, at ASU. Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University, his JD and MA (eco- nomics) from the University of Virginia, and his MS and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University. Wednesday, September 12, 5:15-7 p.m. Physical Sciences F-Wing, Room 123, Tempe Campus RSVP at http://csi.asu.edu/tvdinner Science Fiction TV Dinner Series Star Trek Eat. Watch. Digest. Discuss. Alan Dean Foster Braden R. Allenby

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PROJECT HUMANITIES FALL 2012 KICKOFFARE WE LOSING OUR HUMANITY?Project Humanites explores the ways we connect with each other and make meaning of our shared experiences.

humanities.asu.edu

For more information on these and other Project Humanities events

Free and Open to the Public.

Talking · Listening · Connecting

Wednesday, September 12, 5:15-7 p.m.Physical Sciences F-wing, Room 123, Tempe campusRSVP at http://csi.asu.edu/tvdinner

Alan Dean Foster and other respondents will discuss the episode and its implications for our culture’s imagination about science, exploration, and encounters with the Other.

End of the Golden Age: Science Fiction Before and After the Atomic Bomb

Wednesday, September 12, 1-2 p.m.Noble Science Library, Tempe campusRSVP at http://csi.asu.edu/goldenage

Alan Dean Foster will discuss his experiences working with fellow science fiction editor John W. Campbell.

Science Fiction TV Dinner Series Launch Star Trek: The Original Series

Science Fiction TVDinner Series LaunchStar Trek: The Original Series

Alan Dean Foster and

Braden R. Allenby will discuss the classic episode “Arena” and its im-plications for our culture’s imagination about science, exploration, and encoun-ters with the Other. Alan Dean Foster is a celebrated science fiction writer and contributor to the Star Trek, Star Wars, Chronicles of Riddick and Alien franchises. Mr. Foster is the story writer for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and recently wrote the novel versions of the new Star Trek reboot and Terminator: Salvation.

Braden R. Allenby is Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics; President’s Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, and of Law; Founding Chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Opera-tions, and National Security; and Found-ing Director of the Center for Earth Sys-tems Engineering and Management, at ASU. Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University, his JD and MA (eco-nomics) from the University of Virginia, and his MS and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University.

Wednesday, September 12, 5:15-7 p.m.Physical Sciences F-Wing, Room 123, Tempe CampusRSVP at http://csi.asu.edu/tvdinner

Science FictionTV DinnerSeriesStar TrekEat. Watch.

Digest. Discuss.

Alan Dean Foster

Braden R. Allenby