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In recent history, it has become common to suggest that faith and scientific scholarship are antithetical to one another. Praveen Sethupathy is a leading geneticist who tells a different story, one that explores the depths of religious conviction and the joys of rigorous academic research. He comes to Upper House to share personal reflections on the harmony between supposedly disparate ways of knowing.

Genome editing has been in lab development, and imagined in science fiction, for decades. With dramatic advances in recent years, there is renewed interest in the topic, along with many ethical questions.

How does faith inform the work of our civic, academic, and marketplace leaders? What faith-inspired lessons have our key leaders learned throughout their lives and how do they play out in the everyday demands of public engagement?

According to Samuel Moyn, the ideal of human rights has “come to define the most elevated aspirations of both social movement and political parties … they evoke hope and provoke action.”

How did human rights become such an integral part of our political, social, and moral vocabulary? Historian and legal scholar, Samuel Moyn, has noted that “the annunciation of human rights is now viewed by the general public and professional scholars as the uncomplicated triumph of liberal democracy.”