# ICE Public Dialogues **Entity class:** Public conversation and workshop series ## Definition **ICE Public Dialogues** translated the [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Dartmouth ICE]] agenda into public conversations among scientists, philosophers, writers, artists, religious thinkers, and civic leaders. Events were paired with workshops when possible and distributed through video and digital archives. ## Major dialogues - **The Mystery of Consciousness** — [[wiki/Antonio Damasio|Antonio Damasio]], [[wiki/David Chalmers|David Chalmers]], and [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] at [[wiki/92NY|92Y]]. - **The Nature of Reality** — [[wiki/B. Alan Wallace|B. Alan Wallace]], [[wiki/Sean Carroll|Sean Carroll]], and Gleiser at **City Arts & Lectures** / **Nourse Theater**. - **Future of Intelligence** — [[wiki/Jill Tarter|Jill Tarter]], [[wiki/Patricia Churchland|Patricia Churchland]], and Gleiser at **Chicago Ideas** / **Venue SIX10**. - **The Nature of Faith** — [[wiki/Rebecca Goldstein|Rebecca Goldstein]], [[wiki/Alan Lightman|Alan Lightman]], and Gleiser at [[wiki/92NY|92Y]]. - **The Mystery of Time** — [[wiki/Paul Davies|Paul Davies]], [[wiki/Jimena Canales|Jimena Canales]], and Gleiser at Arizona State University. - **Cyborgs, Futurists & Transhumanism** — [[wiki/Ed Boyden|Ed Boyden]], [[wiki/Mark O'Connell|Mark O’Connell]], and Gleiser at **Museum of Science Boston**. - **On Immortality** — [[wiki/Siddhartha Mukherjee|Siddhartha Mukherjee]], [[wiki/Elizabeth Kolbert|Elizabeth Kolbert]], and Gleiser at [[wiki/92NY|92Y]]. - **Doubling Down** — [[wiki/Jaron Lanier|Jaron Lanier]], **Sue Halpern**, and Gleiser. - **Make, Think, Imagine** — **John Browne**, **Tad Friend**, and Gleiser. - **Plant Intelligence** — [[wiki/Richard Powers|Richard Powers]], [[wiki/Monica Gagliano|Monica Gagliano]], and Gleiser. - **What Is Life?** — [[wiki/Carol Cleland|Carol Cleland]], [[wiki/Robert Hazen|Robert Hazen]], and Gleiser. - **Tribalism** — **Vanessa Woods**, [[wiki/Brian Hare|Brian Hare]], **M. T. Anderson**, and Gleiser. - **Future Society** — [[wiki/Joyce Banda|Joyce Banda]], **Barry Randolph**, Gleiser, and moderator [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Everard Findlay]]. - **Rescuing Human Civilization** — [[wiki/Robin Wall Kimmerer|Robin Wall Kimmerer]], [[wiki/Mark O'Connell|Mark O’Connell]], and Gleiser. - **The Future of Humanity** — eleven speakers routed through **The Future of Humanity Conference**. ## Event registry The event records below absorb the dates, settings, intellectual focus, complete participant lists, and direct event sources formerly split into one-event files. ### Cyborgs, Futurists and Transhumanism **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** March 28, 2018 at the Museum of Science Boston Ed Boyden, Mark O’Connell, and Marcelo Gleiser examined neurotechnology, augmentation, machine-like humans, transhumanism, and immortality. **Participants:** [[wiki/Ed Boyden|Ed Boyden]] · [[wiki/Mark O'Connell|Mark O’Connell]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/cyborgs-futurists-transhumanism-a-conversation) ### Doubling Down **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** 2019 at the Museum of Science Boston Jaron Lanier and Sue Halpern addressed behavioral modification, mass data gathering, platform incentives, human agency, and democracy. **Participants:** [[wiki/Jaron Lanier|Jaron Lanier]] · **Sue Halpern** · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/doubling-down-preserving-our-humanity-in-the-digital-age) ### Future Society Dialogue **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** 2021 Joyce Banda, Barry Randolph, and Marcelo Gleiser discussed science, governance, religion, equity, joy, and collective planetary futures; Everard Findlay curated and moderated. **Participants:** [[wiki/Joyce Banda|Joyce Banda]] · **Barry Randolph** · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] · [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Everard Findlay]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/future-society-three-globally-renowned-icons-of-science-governance-and-religion-share-their-personal-practices-in-shifting-our-world) ### Future of Intelligence **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** May 2017 at Venue SIX10 during Chicago Ideas Jill Tarter and Patricia Churchland discussed human, machine, and extraterrestrial intelligence, including the implications of transhumanist society. **Participants:** [[wiki/Jill Tarter|Jill Tarter]] · [[wiki/Patricia Churchland|Patricia Churchland]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/future-of-intelligence) ### Make Think Imagine **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** January 2020 John Browne and Tad Friend joined Marcelo Gleiser on engineering, imagination, AI, technological acceleration, industry, and human values. **Participants:** **John Browne** · **Tad Friend** · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/make-think-imagine-where-is-technology-taking-us) ### Mind and Emptiness **Entity class:** conference **Date / setting:** 2017 at Dartmouth scientific, philosophical, and Buddhist perspectives on consciousness were convened with the Upper Valley Zen Center and Dartmouth Zen Practice. **Participants:** [[wiki/Adam Frank|Adam Frank]] · [[wiki/Evan Thompson|Evan Thompson]] · [[wiki/Peter Ulric Tse|Peter Ulric Tse]] · **Shinge Sherry Chayat** **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/mind-and-emptiness) ### On Being Human **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** 2019 at Dartmouth Tasneem Zehra Husain, Jeremy DeSilva, and David Grinspoon placed storytelling, human evolution, and astrobiology in one account of human identity; the Passing Project contributed music and dance. **Participants:** [[wiki/ICE Fellows Program|Tasneem Zehra Husain]] · [[wiki/Jeremy DeSilva|Jeremy DeSilva]] · [[wiki/David Grinspoon|David Grinspoon]] · **The Passing Project** **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/on-being-human-mythic-and-scientific-perspectives) ### On Immortality **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** October 2018 at 92Y Siddhartha Mukherjee and Elizabeth Kolbert placed biomedical life extension beside species, ecological, and planetary mortality. **Participants:** [[wiki/Siddhartha Mukherjee|Siddhartha Mukherjee]] · [[wiki/Elizabeth Kolbert|Elizabeth Kolbert]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/on-immortality) ### Plant Intelligence Dialogue **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** February 2020 Richard Powers and Monica Gagliano examined whether learning, signaling, memory-like response, or intelligence requires neurons. **Participants:** [[wiki/Richard Powers|Richard Powers]] · [[wiki/Monica Gagliano|Monica Gagliano]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/plant-intelligence) ### Rescuing Human Civilization **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** March 2021 Robin Wall Kimmerer, Mark O’Connell, and Marcelo Gleiser joined ecological reciprocity, technological anxiety, reform, and civilizational survival. **Participants:** [[wiki/Robin Wall Kimmerer|Robin Wall Kimmerer]] · [[wiki/Mark O'Connell|Mark O’Connell]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/rescuing-human-civilization-what-will-it-take) ### The Blind Spot Workshop **Entity class:** workshop **Date / setting:** April 22–23, 2019 at Dartmouth philosophers, physicists, and cognitive scientists examined truth, objectivity, experience, scientific description, and the limits of detached observation. **Participants:** [[wiki/Michel Bitbol|Michel Bitbol]] · [[wiki/Adam Frank|Adam Frank]] · [[wiki/Christopher Fuchs|Christopher Fuchs]] · [[wiki/Jenann Ismael|Jenann Ismael]] · **Peter Lewis** · [[wiki/Michela Massimi|Michela Massimi]] · [[wiki/Adina Roskies|Adina Roskies]] · **Robert Sharf** · [[wiki/ICE Fellows Program|Mark Sprevak]] · [[wiki/Evan Thompson|Evan Thompson]] · [[wiki/Peter Ulric Tse|Peter Ulric Tse]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/the-blind-spot-experience-science-and-the-search-for-truth) ### The Future of Humanity Conference **Entity class:** two-day virtual conference **Date / setting:** 2021 scientists and humanists addressed civilization, climate, ethics, politics, technology, culture, extinction, and survival from deliberately plural perspectives. **Participants:** [[wiki/Ayaan Hirsi Ali|Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] · [[wiki/Mary Flanagan|Mary Flanagan]] · [[wiki/Adam Frank|Adam Frank]] · **John Haldane** · **Sue Halpern** · [[wiki/Elizabeth Kolbert|Elizabeth Kolbert]] · [[wiki/Bill McKibben|Bill McKibben]] · [[wiki/Martin Rees|Martin Rees]] · [[wiki/Kim Stanley Robinson|Kim Stanley Robinson]] · [[wiki/Peter Singer|Peter Singer]] · [[wiki/Terry Tempest Williams|Terry Tempest Williams]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/the-future-of-humanity-scientific-and-humanistic-perspectives) ### The Mystery of Consciousness **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** October 6, 2016 at 92Y in New York Antonio Damasio, David Chalmers, and moderator Marcelo Gleiser examined what neuroscience and philosophy can and cannot explain about conscious experience. **Participants:** [[wiki/Antonio Damasio|Antonio Damasio]] · [[wiki/David Chalmers|David Chalmers]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/the-mystery-of-consciousness) ### The Mystery of Time **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** February 2018 at Arizona State University Paul Davies and Jimena Canales revisited the Einstein–Bergson dispute and the relation between physical time and lived or philosophical time. **Participants:** [[wiki/Paul Davies|Paul Davies]] · [[wiki/Jimena Canales|Jimena Canales]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/the-mystery-of-time) ### The Nature of Faith **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** October 12, 2017 at 92Y Rebecca Goldstein and Alan Lightman joined Marcelo Gleiser on science, religion, the arts, philosophy, faith, and reason. **Participants:** [[wiki/Rebecca Goldstein|Rebecca Goldstein]] · [[wiki/Alan Lightman|Alan Lightman]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/the-nature-of-faith) ### The Nature of Reality **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** February 2017 at Nourse Theater in San Francisco B. Alan Wallace and Sean Carroll compared Buddhist and theoretical-physics approaches to reality, mediated by Marcelo Gleiser. **Participants:** [[wiki/B. Alan Wallace|B. Alan Wallace]] · [[wiki/Sean Carroll|Sean Carroll]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/the-nature-of-reality) ### Tribalism Dialogue **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** 2020 Vanessa Woods, Brian Hare, M. T. Anderson, and Marcelo Gleiser examined belonging, cooperation, exclusion, social identity, and tribalism. **Participants:** **Vanessa Woods** · [[wiki/Brian Hare|Brian Hare]] · **M. T. Anderson** · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/tribalism-a-cross-disciplinary-conversation) ### What Is Life Dialogue **Entity class:** public dialogue **Date / setting:** October 2020 Carol Cleland and Robert Hazen examined definitions of life, alien biosignatures, mineral evolution, origins, and unfamiliar biology. **Participants:** [[wiki/Carol Cleland|Carol Cleland]] · [[wiki/Robert Hazen|Robert Hazen]] · [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]] **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/what-is-life) ### You Are Here Workshop **Entity class:** workshop **Date / setting:** at Dartmouth Richard Beaudoin, Eliot Michaelson, and Susanna Schellenberg examined maps, representation, location, perception, language, and music; John Kulvicki organized. **Participants:** **Richard Beaudoin** · **Eliot Michaelson** · **Susanna Schellenberg** · **John Kulvicki** **Sources:** [ICE event page](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/you-are-here-finding-ourselves-in-the-maps-we-make) ## Consolidated participant and venue notes These notes retain the institutional alignments and source links formerly held in shallow participant and venue files. Participants with independently useful nodes remain linked in the event registry. - **Barry Randolph** — pastor and community activist; leads Church of the Messiah in Detroit and is known for neighborhood development, youth programs, housing, entrepreneurship, and faith-based civic work. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://churchofmessiahdetroit.org/); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Eliot Michaelson** — philosopher of language; works on language, meaning, identity, slurs, online speech, reference, and the social and political dimensions of communication; affiliated with King’s College London. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/eliot-michaelson); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Franco Rossi** — archaeologist; Maya archaeologist whose excavation and contextual work contributed to interpretation of Structure 10K-2 and its scribal workshop. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/workshop-on-a-workshop-viewing-maya-murals-excavations-and-inscriptions-through-interdisciplinary-eyes); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Heather Hurst** — archaeologist and archaeological illustrator; MacArthur Fellow whose field documentation, reconstruction, and visual analysis have been central to research on Maya mural painting and the Xultun writing workshop. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.skidmore.edu/anthropology/faculty/hurst.php); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **John Browne** — engineer, business leader, and author; served as chief executive of BP and later wrote on engineering, technological progress, energy, business, and social change; his industrial record and climate-policy role are both material to interpreting his technology arguments. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.johnbrowne.com/); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **John Haldane** — philosopher; has held chairs and fellowships at St Andrews, the University of Birmingham, and Australian Catholic University; works on moral philosophy, virtue, education, metaphysics, religion, and public life. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/people/jjh1); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **John Kulvicki** — philosopher; Dartmouth philosopher working on representation, pictures, maps, perception, notation, and how representational systems carry information. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://philosophy.dartmouth.edu/people/john-kulvicki); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **M. T. Anderson** — novelist and essayist; National Book Award–winning author whose work includes Feed and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing and examines propaganda, consumer technology, history, identity, and power. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://mt-anderson.com/); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Peter Lewis** — philosopher of physics; works on interpretations of quantum mechanics, probability, ontology, and the philosophical structure of physical theory. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://philosophy.dartmouth.edu/people/peter-j-lewis); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Richard Beaudoin** — composer and music scholar; composer and scholar whose work includes microtiming, musical notation, recorded performance, transcription, and the relation between maps, scores, and lived temporal detail. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.richardbeaudoin.com/); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Robert Sharf** — Buddhist-studies scholar; UC Berkeley professor whose work examines Buddhist philosophy, ritual, meditation, experience, and the modern construction of contemplative practice. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://ealc.berkeley.edu/people/robert-sharf); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Shinge Sherry Chayat** — Zen teacher; abbot and teacher in the Rinzai Zen tradition, associated with the Zen Center of Syracuse and interfaith/contemplative dialogue. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.zencenterofsyracuse.org/); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Sue Halpern** — writer and scholar; Middlebury scholar-in-residence and journalist whose work covers technology, democracy, privacy, community, politics, nature, and social consequences of digital systems. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/sue-halpern); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Susanna Schellenberg** — philosopher of mind; Rutgers professor whose work examines perception, evidence, rationality, mental content, and the epistemic role of perceptual experience. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/susanna-schellenberg); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Tad Friend** — journalist and author; New Yorker staff writer whose Silicon Valley reporting has covered venture capital, artificial intelligence, technology culture, life extension, and figures including Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and Sam Altman. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tad-friend); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) - **Vanessa Woods** — evolutionary anthropologist and author; Duke researcher and writer whose work examines bonobos, dogs, cooperation, friendliness, social cognition, and human evolutionary behavior. Sources: [Institutional or primary profile](https://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/vanessa-woods); [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/) ### Venue SIX10 **Entity class:** Public-event venue **Location:** Chicago **Venue SIX10** hosted the Chicago Ideas / ICE dialogue “Future of Intelligence: Human, Machine and Extraterrestrial.” **Sources:** [ICE — Future of Intelligence](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/future-of-intelligence) ### Nourse Theater **Entity class:** Performance and lecture venue **Location:** San Francisco **Nourse Theater** is a San Francisco venue used by **City Arts & Lectures**. It hosted the ICE dialogue “The Nature of Reality” with [[wiki/B. Alan Wallace|B. Alan Wallace]], [[wiki/Sean Carroll|Sean Carroll]], and [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]]. **Sources:** [City Arts & Lectures](https://www.cityarts.net/); [ICE — The Nature of Reality](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/the-nature-of-reality) ### Chicago Ideas **Entity class:** Public ideas festival and civic platform **Chicago Ideas** presented an ICE conversation in its Curiosity Series at **Venue SIX10**: “Future of Intelligence: Human, Machine and Extraterrestrial,” featuring [[wiki/Jill Tarter|Jill Tarter]], [[wiki/Patricia Churchland|Patricia Churchland]], and [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]]. **Sources:** [ICE — Future of Intelligence](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/future-of-intelligence) ### City Arts and Lectures **Entity class:** Public conversation series **City Arts & Lectures** is a San Francisco public-conversation organization. With the [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]], it presented “The Nature of Reality” at **Nourse Theater** with [[wiki/B. Alan Wallace|B. Alan Wallace]], [[wiki/Sean Carroll|Sean Carroll]], and [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]]. **Sources:** [City Arts & Lectures](https://www.cityarts.net/); [ICE — The Nature of Reality](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/the-nature-of-reality) ### Museum of Science Boston **Entity class:** Science museum and public venue The **Museum of Science, Boston** is a science-education institution whose Cahners Theater hosted **ICE Public Dialogues**, including “Cyborgs, Futurists & Transhumanism” with [[wiki/Ed Boyden|Ed Boyden]], [[wiki/Mark O'Connell|Mark O’Connell]], and [[wiki/Marcelo Gleiser|Marcelo Gleiser]], and “Doubling Down” with [[wiki/Jaron Lanier|Jaron Lanier]] and **Sue Halpern**. **Sources:** [Museum of Science Boston](https://www.mos.org/); [ICE — Public Dialogues](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/public-dialogues-workshops) ### Dartmouth Zen Practice **Entity class:** Campus contemplative-practice community **Dartmouth Zen Practice** co-presented the ICE conference “Mind and Emptiness: Perspectives on the Nature of Consciousness,” joining scientific, philosophical, and Buddhist approaches. **Sources:** [ICE — Mind and Emptiness](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/mind-and-emptiness) ### Upper Valley Zen Center **Entity class:** Zen practice community The **Upper Valley Zen Center** co-presented “Mind and Emptiness: Perspectives on the Nature of Consciousness” with the [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]] and **Dartmouth Zen Practice**. **Sources:** [ICE — Mind and Emptiness](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/mind-and-emptiness) ### The Passing Project **Entity class:** Performance collaboration **The Passing Project** contributed live music and dance to Dartmouth ICE’s 2019 program _On Being Human: Mythic and Scientific Perspectives_. The surviving ICE event page establishes the performance contribution but does not provide enough detail to infer a broader institutional identity beyond that collaboration. **Sources:** [ICE at Dartmouth — On Being Human](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events/on-being-human-mythic-and-scientific-perspectives) ## Relationships - **parent:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Dartmouth ICE]]. - **venues:** [[wiki/92NY|92NY]], **Museum of Science Boston**, **City Arts & Lectures**, **Chicago Ideas**, and Dartmouth. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [ICE — Public Dialogues and Workshops](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/public-dialogues-workshops) - [ICE — Events](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/events)