Science, Secularization, and American Democracy

CONVERSATIONS AT THE CENTER
Science, Secularization, & American Democracy: Laboratories & Liberty in the Imaginations of American Jews
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 • 12:00noon • West Hall, Room 135 • ASU Tempe Campus
Efron is author of A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), as well as two other books, and has written many essays and articles on the complicated intersection of knowledge, religion, and politics. He considers himself to be an avid student in the ways that changes in technologies, societal institutions, and socio-political ideologies influence one another. Lately, he has become obsessed with the decline of faith in “facts” and scientific experts that some circles are reporting (and worries late at night that his chosen field may have contributed to this frightful development).Efron has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a fellow of the Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology at MIT, a fellow at Harvard University, and a visiting professor at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
He is also a former member of the Tel Aviv City Council and the host of a popular podcast, The Promiseland Podcast, the world’s leading podcast on Israeli politics.
This event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are kindly requested
This event will be recorded & live-streamed at https://asunow.asu.edu/asulive