Previous Roundtables
There have been twenty-nine previous Cambridge Roundtables:
October 30, 2012 American Politics & Religion: Untangling the Web we Weave Robert Putnam Harvard University, Public Policy February 16, 2012 The Roundtable Presented:God, Stephen Hawking, and the Cosmos: Is there a Grand Design?
John Lennox
Oxford, Mathematics Alan Guth
MIT, Physics November 16, 2011 The Roundtable Presented: Saints, Sex, and Society Sarah Ruden Wesleyan University, Classics April 4 & 5, 2011 The Roundtable Presented: What do Scientists Really Think about Religion?
Elaine Ecklund
Rice University, Sociology
March 10, 2011 The Roundtable Presented:
Should Ethics Be Taught in the Classroom?
J. Mark Ramseyer
Harvard University, Law
March 2, 2011 The Roundtable Presented:
Can atheists and theists agree on what constitutes a meaningful life?
Ned Hall
Harvard University, Philosophy
David Ellis
Former Director, Boston Museum of Science
February 24, 2011 The Roundtable Presented:
Trauma, Spirituality and Fantasy
Susan Napier
Tufts University, Japanese Culture
February 16, 2011 The Roundtable Presented:
What Does Our Experience of Emptiness Mean?
John Peteet
Harvard University, Psychiatry
February 10, 2011 The Roundtable Presented:
The Anthropic Principle – a message from religion or science?
Howard Smith
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Senior Astrophysicist
February 2, 2011 The Roundtable Presented:
Is Nature Enough?
Owen Gingerich
Harvard University, Astronomy (Emeritus)
January 27, 2011 The Roundtable Presented:
The Role of Qualia in the Science vs. Religion Debate
George Siscoe
Boston University, Astronomy
October 2010 The Roundtable Presented:
Political Power and Persuasive Presence
James Davison Hunter
University of Virginia, Sociology
Robert M. Randolph
MIT, Chaplain to the Institute
March 2010 The Roundtable presented:
Does the Universe Suggest Evidence for God?
Owen Gingerich
Abraham Loeb
Howard A. Smith
Harvard University, Astronomy
William Lane Craig
Talbot School of Theology, Philosophy
March 2010 The Roundtable presented:
Can We Be Good Without God?
Rae Langton (yes)
MIT, Philosophy
William Lane Craig (no)
Talbot School of Theology, Philosophy
February 2010 The Roundtable presented:
Biotechnology, Embodiment and Human Dignity
William B. Hurlbut
Stanford University, Ethics and Neurology
November 2009 The Roundtable presented:
Answering the New Atheists
Stanley E. Fish
Florida International University, Law and Humanities
J. Mark Ramseyer
Harvard University, Law
October 2009 The Roundtable presented:
The Question of God and the Painful Riddle of Death
John R. Peteet
Harvard University, Psychiatry
October 2009 The Roundtable presented:
The Question of God: Is There Intelligence Beyond the Universe?
Armand M. Nicholi
Harvard University, Psychiatry
March 2009 The Roundtable presented:
Connecting Religious Tolerance and Prosperity in the University
George M. Marsden
Notre Dame University, History, Emeritus
Harvard Divinity School, Visiting Professor
November 2008 The Roundtable presented:
Evangelicals and the Academy
Michael Lindsay
Rice University, Sociology
Christopher Winship
Harvard University, Sociology
March 2008 The Roundtable presented:
Faith, History, and Reason: all in the Pursuit of Truth?
Charles Freeman
Royal Society of the Arts Fellow
Anne McCants
MIT History Faculty Head
October 2007 The Roundtable presented:
Religious Literacy
Stephen Prothero
Boston University Religion Department Chair
February 2007 The Roundtable presented:
What ought the university teach?
George M. Marsden
Notre Dame University, History
Marc D. Hauser
Harvard University, Psychology
October 2006 The Roundtable presented:
Moral Leadership in the University
Harry R. Lewis
Former Dean of Harvard College
Paul C. Vitz
New York University, Psychology
March 2006 The Roundtable presented:
God, Time, and Relativity Theory
William Lane Craig
Talbot School of Theology, Philosophy
February 2006 The Roundtable presented:
Should “Intelligent Design” be taught as Science in the Secular University?
Michael J. Behe (yes)
Lehigh University, Biochemistry
Edward J. “Ned” Hall (no)
Harvard University, Philosophy
October 2005 The Roundtable presented:
Faith and Religion in the Classroom
Naomi Schaefer Riley
Deputy Taste Editor at The WSJ
March 2005 The Roundtable presented:
The Self-Disclosure of Ultimate Reality
Sir John Polkinghorne
Fellow of the Royal Society, Former President of Queens’ College, Cambridge
