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Adapt or PerishPeter Pan (Ep. 130)With Episode 130 of Adapt or Perish, we're finally tackling the story of the only child who never grew up: Peter Pan! In this episode, we discuss: J.M. Barrie's original 1904 play (Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up) and 1911 novel (Peter and Wendy) The 1924 silent movie, directed by Herbert Brenon, written by Willis Goldbeck, and starring Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, and Mary Brian Walt Disney's Peter Pan, the 1953 animated movie, directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, and Wilfred Jackson, and starring Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, and Bill Thompson The 1954 musical (and '55...
2023-09-052h 28
Berkeley TalksHow technology is transforming religionA panel of scholars explore how technology is changing how and when we practice religion, as well as our notions of religious community, religious doctrine and what it means to be religious.Panelists at the Nov 2. event included: Steven Barrie-Anthony, research associate at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion Kelsy BurkeAssociate professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-LincolnErika Gault, assistant professor of Africana Studies from the University of ArizonaHeather Mellquist Lehto, postdoctoral fellow with Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Religion and ConflictModerated by Carolyn Chen, associate professor of ethnic studies...
2021-11-051h 28
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceSeries Intro by Bradley OnishiWelcome you to our conversations on religion, technology, and human presence, hosted in conjunction with Public Theologies of Technology and Presence, which is a research and journalism initiative based at the Institute of Buddhist studies in Berkeley and funded by the Henry Luce foundation.The program is led by director Steven Barrie-Anthony. Over recent decades, technologies have radically reshaped human relationships in ways that evoke deep questions such as what it means to be human and to be present with others. The Public Theologies of Technology and Presence initiative gathers and funds leading scholars of religion and...
2021-09-1401 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceYoga, Buddhism, and Human EnhancementStuart Ray Sarbacker is an Associate Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University. His research and teaching center on the relationships between the Indian religious and philosophical traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.He discusses the implications of emerging technology on human relationships by examining how the philosophical and contemplative traditions of yoga and of Buddhism address the effect of human augmentation on interpersonal relationships. He explains how yoga and Buddhist traditions view the disciplining of mind and body as producing extraordinary modes of perception and action that have profound...
2021-06-0230 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceSexuality, Technology, and the Fourth Industrial RevolutionSheila Briggs is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Briggs discusses her approach to research and pedagogy at the intersection of sexuality, technology, and modernity. According to Briggs, sexuality shapes the full range of our interpersonal relationships. We are present to one another not only as friends and lovers but also as citizens, workers and consumers. The impacts of technology in one area of our lives affect us in others: one cannot isolate our interpersonal relationships from how we are economic and political actors. To think about how technological innovation...
2021-06-0125 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceVideo Games and the Problem of EvilGregory Price Grieve is Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His current research uses video games to explore the category of evil in contemporary life.Grieve discusses how video games differ from other media such as film and printed literature, because they do not merely represent evil as an audio/visual layer, or tell about evil as narrative, but simulate immersive worlds in which players dwell. Because of such immersion, video games reveal the ways in which digital technologies reshape human relationships.
2021-06-0132 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceTechnological SabbathsAmy Sue Bix is Professor of History at Iowa State University and director of ISU’s Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science. Her 2013 book ‘Girls Coming to Tech!’: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press) won the 2015 Margaret Rossiter Prize from the History of Science Society.She discusses her research and teaching surrounding the phenomenon of "tech sabbaths," the religious, social, and popular meanings of the twenty-first-century movement encouraging people to adopt regular breaks from smartphone and Internet use.
2021-06-0131 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceContemplative Media StudiesKevin Healey is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire. His work focuses on the ethical and religious dimensions of digital culture. Kevin’s latest book, co-authored with Robert H. Woods, Jr., is "Ethics and Religion in the Age of Social Media: Digital Proverbs for Responsible Citizens".He discusses his multi-faceted approach to teaching in contemplative media studies, relatively new field that integrates empirical social-science research (neuroscience, medicine, psychology, psychiatry) with insights derived from first-person contemplative practices (mindfulness training, meditation, yoga, arts and music therapy).
2021-06-0129 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceModernity, Presence, and TemporalityDr. R. John Williams is Associate Professor at Yale University where he teaches in the departments of English and Film and Media Studies. He is the author of "The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology and the Meeting of East and West" (Yale University Press, 2014), which examines the role of technological discourse in the development of Asian religious experience in the United States and Europe. Here he discusses his courses on modernity, time, human presence, and "futurology" as ways to understand how human relationships with technology have changed in the modern era.
2021-06-0127 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceChinese Religions, Moral Attention, and Technological PresenceBeverley McGuire is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. As a historian of religion specializing in Chinese Religions, McGuire examines the impact of digital technology on moral attention—the capacity to discern and attend to the morally salient features of a given situation. Although most scholars associate moral attention with Western philosophers, Chinese religious traditions describe various means of facilitating moral attention, including Confucian techniques of moral cultivation, Daoist practices of “fasting the mind,” and Buddhist meditation.This project considers ways in which digital technologies can distract us from other people and disrupt our mo...
2021-06-0127 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceMonsterology: Technological HauntingsDr. Stephen T. Asma is Professor of Philosophy and Founding Fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science and Culture at Columbia College Chicago. Asma is the author of ten books, including Why We Need Religion (Oxford University Press, 2018), The Evolution of Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2017), On Monsters: an Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears (Oxford, 2009), and The Gods Drink Whiskey (HarperOne, 2005). He writes regularly for the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Aeon. He discusses how his recent book, "The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition" (with Rami Gabriel...
2021-06-0127 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceReligion, Ethics, AI, Computing, and RoboticsNoreen Herzfeld is the Nicholas and Bernice Reuter Professor of Science and Religion at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict. She holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Herzfeld is the author of In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit (Fortress, 2002), Technology and Religion: Remaining Human in a Co-Created World (Templeton, 2009), The Limits of Perfection in Technology, Religion, and Science (Pandora, 2010), and editor of Religion and the New Technologies (MDPI, 2017).A leading vo...
2021-06-0127 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceTechnology and Human PersonhoodIlia Delio, OSF holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. She is the author of eighteen books and numerous articles. She lectures nationally and internationally on various topics in Science and Religion, including religion and evolution, consciousness and complexity, integral ecology, and artificial intelligence. Her most recent book is "The Hours of the Universe: Reflections on God, Science, and the Human Journey" (Orbis).She discusses her research and teaching, focusing on a number of core questions: How did we arrive at a level of technological dependence? Where are we going with our...
2021-06-0126 min
Religion, Technology, and Human PresenceTeaching Religion and Tech: Ethical and Historical ConsiderationsDevin Singh is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on modern religious thought in the West, social ethics, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West (Stanford 2018), as well as of articles on religion and money appearing in Implicit Religion, Political Theology, and The Huffington Post.He discusses his research and approach to teaching "Religion and Technology" by interrogating the following questions: In what ways is technology a response to the difficulties of labor and work, the biological limitations...
2021-06-0125 min