Panel: Science Fact/Science Fiction

Location

Chester Fritz Auditorium

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

27-3-2003 12:00 PM

End Date

27-3-2003 12:00 PM

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In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 27, 2003, as part of the 34th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Art & Science,” Devra Davis, Julia Whitty, Natalie Angier, Ted Mooney, and Thomas Disch participate in a panel called “Science Fact/Science Fiction.” The panelists discuss the definitions and intersections of fiction and fact, the use of dolphins to detect mines in the Persian Gulf, blurred moral lines concerning human-animal relationships, technology and science fiction in war, science education, Edgar Allan Poe as an early science fiction writer, science fiction as mythology, and other topics.

Moderated by Dr. Al Fivizzani, Department of Biology.

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Panel: Science Fact/Science Fiction

Chester Fritz Auditorium

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 27, 2003, as part of the 34th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Art & Science,” Devra Davis, Julia Whitty, Natalie Angier, Ted Mooney, and Thomas Disch participate in a panel called “Science Fact/Science Fiction.” The panelists discuss the definitions and intersections of fiction and fact, the use of dolphins to detect mines in the Persian Gulf, blurred moral lines concerning human-animal relationships, technology and science fiction in war, science education, Edgar Allan Poe as an early science fiction writer, science fiction as mythology, and other topics.

Moderated by Dr. Al Fivizzani, Department of Biology.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2003/day3/1