Thomas John Hastings, JICUF Senior Research Fellow in Science & Religion, is organizing an academic conference titled “The Presence and Future of Humanity in the Cosmos: Why Society Needs Both the Sciences & the Humanities”. The conference will be held on the ICU campus from March 18-23, 2015 and bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

On March 20th and 21st, there will also be two live-streamed events open to the public on the verdant ICU campus, a lecture by Dr. Willem B. Drees, a Dutch philosopher of science, and a film and interview featuring Fujimura Makoto, award-winning Nihonga artist. Click here to gain access to the live-stream on March 20th or 21st.

The conference is being co-sponsored and supported by the JICUF and ICU’s Institute for Christianity & Culture, where Hastings is also a Research Fellow, with additional funding from the John Templeton Foundation, the Niwano Peace Foundation, the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, the Wesley Foundation.

Click here for the conference homepage.
Click here for the live-stream of the public events listed below.