Marchant part of Chautauqua lecture series

06/21/2007

Marchant part of Chautauqua lecture series

Gary Marchant 2007 
Professor Gary Marchant

     Gary Marchant of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law will lecture on “Ethics, Law and Emerging Technologies” at the Chautauqua Institution’s 2007 Amphitheater Lecture Series, June 25 and 27. His lectures will address the increasingly important role and limitations of law in regulating emerging new technologies such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, neuroscience and information technologies.
     Marchant, the College’s Lincoln Professor of Emerging Technologies, Law & Ethics, is on the program, The Media and News: Applied Ethics, with Brad Allenby and Peter French, also of Arizona State University. Allenby is Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, and French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics.
     Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor also is scheduled to speak there later in the summer.
     The annual series in Chautauqua, N.Y., which ends Aug. 24, draws distinguished individuals, scientists, authors, educators and experts in such fields as national and international affairs, arts and humanities, business and the environment.
     Chautauqua is famous for being the location where Susan B. Anthony argued for women’s suffrage in 1892 and Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his “I Hate War” speech in 1936.
     Past speakers in the institution’s series include retired aviator Amelia Earhart, writer Kurt Vonnegut and Oscar Arias Sánchez, winner of a Nobel Peace Prize. Other participants this summer are Arianna Huffington of HuffingtonPost.com, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, primatologist Jane Goodall and The Hot Club of San Francisco.
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