JHU SAIS to Hold Discussion on the Biotechnology Revolution

The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will hold a forum, "Our Posthuman Future" on Monday, 09/30 at 5:30 p.m.

This is the next event of the "SAIS Faculty Book Series" which will feature a discussion of Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, a book written by Francis Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at SAIS, recently published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Fukuyama will make some introductory remarks, followed by a panel discussion about the book and the future of biotechnology featuring:

¨ Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics and the Hertog Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute

¨ Michael Mandelbaum, director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program

¨ Scott Barrett, director of the SAIS Energy, Environment, Science and Technology Program

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., in Washington, D.C.

Members of the media who want to cover this event should contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Public Affairs Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].