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“Numbers and Nerves: Addressing the Arithmetic of Compassion and the World’s Most Urgent Issues”

Paul SlovicScott-Slovic

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

7:00 pm

Knight Library Browsing Room (Room 106)

University of Oregon

A talk by Paul Slovic and Scott Slovic

This presentation by a father-son team will explore how the social sciences and the environmental humanities can come together to enable us to understand how information is presented and perceived in the contexts of genocide, the refugee crisis, global climate change, and other humanitarian and environmental challenges.

Paul Slovic is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon and President of Decision Research.

Scott Slovic is Professor of Literature and Environment and Chair of the English Department at the University of Idaho.

Reception to Follow.

Free and Open to the Public.

Sponsored by the University of Oregon Global Justice Program.

Contact Ashleigh Landau at alandau2@uoregon.edu