Seattle Atheists is offering four 50% scholarships to the Northwest Freethought Alliance Regional Conference. The cost for the conference is $125, so scholarship recipients will be able to attend the full conference (3 days) for only $62.
To apply for the scholarship, send us a brief essay explaining why would like to attend the conference and what you hope to gain from the experience.
Deadline: Feb. 1. We will notify recipients by Feb. 15.
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The Northwest Freethought conference, Darwin@200, is filling up! Be sure to reserve your spot now!
Keynote speakers
Some of the very interesting workshops and speakers include:
- Debating Darwin deniers: Jim Corbett, of the Humanists of North Puget Sound and Humanists of Washington, will show how to counter non-scientific statements/arguments, based on debates he’s had with evolution deniers.
- Reform at Victory: Michele Ulriksen, author of “Reform at Victory: A Survivor’s Story,” will share her experiences of being shipped off to a fundamentalist Baptist reform school (boot camp) when she was 16.
- Darwin’s Black Box: PSU professor Mitch Cruzan will talk about teaching Biology to non-Science majors and what beliefs about evolution college students bring to school with them.
- Hope for Skeptics: Jim Corbett presents his second workshop, one he’s also giving at the AHA conference in Phoenix in June. This one is about creating hope in a life that agnostics believe stops at death.
- Ten Myths about Evolution: The co-authors of “Top 10 Myths About Evolution,” Cameron McPherson Smith and Charles Sullivan, will share the core ideas of their book and reactions to it from a wide spectrum of readers.
- The Neuro-physiology of Peak Experiences: Dr. Josh Fost, author of “If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent”, will share some of his research in the neurophysiology of religious (and other peak) experiences.
You can register and pay online, and there is a one-day option available, housing, carpools and scholarships. Don’t miss this!
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Darwin @ 200 (and other matters), presented by the Humanists of Greater Portland
Portland State University (Portland, OR) from March 27 to 29
Let’s get together and celebrate (and profit from) our differences.” – Paul Valery, poet and philosopher (1871-1945)
The Northwest Freethought Alliance, supported by the Humanists of Greater Portland, is coordinating the efforts of three dozen freethought and other groups in the Northwest, including member organizations of the Northwest Freethought Coalition (NWFC), in planning and hosting a regional conference. Read more…
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