On Tuesday the 9th of June at 8pm, Professor Neville Bruce will present a talk entitled 'The 21st century human: what will life be like in 2050?'.
The 21st Century poses the greatest challenges and opportunities ever faced by humankind. The last 50 years have seen unprecedented growth in science and technology and consequent problems of resource depletion, pollution, climate change and weapons of mass destruction. We humans have finally achieved dominion over the world but have we achieved it over ourselves? The next 50 years will provide the answer. How we harness science and technology, how we work within a globalised world and how we reform values and worldviews compatible with the power that we now have will be crucial not just to human wellbeing but to planetary futures perhaps for millennia. Our personal lives and even more the lives of our children and grandchildren are in the balance. What weight shall we put on these lives?
About the Speaker
Neville Bruce is Director of the Centre for Integrated Human Studies, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA (www.ihs.uwa.edu.au). His major research and teaching interests centred on human reproduction and human biology. Over the past decade he broadened these interests to encompass human wellbeing from a psychological and biological perspective as a basis for developing a philosophy and practice for Integrated Human Studies. He had an active role in establishing the Australasian Society for Human Biology and at an extra curricular level has been involved in Scientists Against Nuclear Arms, the Peace Education Foundation and the WA Alternative Fuels Association. He is committed to furthering the discipline of Integrated Human Studies locally and internationally.
Please note that the ground floor entrance to the Library, nearest to the carpark,
will be open from 7.30pm - 7.45pm.
Tuesday 9 June 2009 at 7:30pm for 8pm
Library Meeting Room
Ground Floor
Reid Library
The University of Western Australia