Afternoon: Arrival

6:00 pm: BioAgenda 2006 Summit Opening

Welcome by David Ewing Duncan, BioAgenda Founder and Editorial Director. David will explain the topics to be covered at the Summit, and how and why they were chosen as the most pressing issues of the year.

6:15 pm: Welcome to California

Remarks by David Crane, welcoming participants to California from the office of the Governor.
David Crane is a Special Advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

6:30 pm: Theatrical Performance

BioAgenda and The Magic Theatre of San Francisco present scenes from plays with themes emphasizing evolution and science, and climatology.

Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
The Ice-Breaker by David Rambo
Tooth and Claw by Michael Hollinger
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Starring:
Dariush Kashani, Star of television's Ghost Whisperer, Lost, and Law and Order
Genevieve Elam, Star of films Changing Lanes and Neurotica; on television: Sex and the City
Robertson Dean, Star of Broadway's Pygmalion; on television: Frasier, Star Trek, and 24.

Directed by:
Mark Routhier, Magic Theatre of San Francisco

Co-Producer: Magic Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Magic Theatre is a non-profit theater company with a 39-year history of producing and developing new works. Magic resident playwrights include Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Rebecca Gilman, and many others. www.magictheatre.org

7:45 pm: Cocktail and Light Dinner Reception

"Faces of Science," photographs by Mariana Cook

Selections from Mariana Cook's book, Faces of Science: intimate, large-format, black-and-white portraits of famed molecular biologists - James Watson, Francis Crick, Leroy Hood, and others - photographed by award-winning portrait photographer Mariana Cook, author of best-selling photography books: Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons, and Generations of Women.

Brief remarks by Mariana Cook

8:45 pm: Panel Discussion: The Conflict of Ideology, Science, and the Arts

In the Renaissance, the three elemental forces of ideology, science, and the arts combined in the works of Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and others. Five hundred years later, what does art now have to say about the current love-hate relationship between science and ideology?

Moderator: Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker; Founder/Ambassador of the Webby Awards

Mariana Cook, Photographer

Baroness Susan Greenfield, PhD, Professor, Oxford University; Director, The Royal Institution of Great Britain; Member, House of Lords

Dariush Kashani, Actor

Richard Milner, Associate in Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History; author of The Encyclopedia of Evolution: Humanity's Search for Its Origins, and upcoming Darwin's Universe

Leonard Shlain, MD, Chairman of Laparoscopic Surgery, California Pacific Medical Center; Associate Professor UCSF Medical School; best-selling author of Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light

Cynthia Schneider, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University; Former Ambassador to The Netherlands; Art Historian

 

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