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Debate: The Kindness of Strangers - Why Do Humans Choose to be Nice to Each Other?

Event: Edinburgh International Book Festival
Date: 26 Aug 2011 19:00


Speaker(s):

• Oren Harman, Author of The Price Of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
• Chair: Dr Steve Sturdy, Deputy Director, ESRC Genomics Forum, University of Edinburgh
• Dr Dominic Johnson, Reader, Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Ruth Chadwick, Director, Cesagen, Cardiff University

Organised by: ESRC Genomics and Policy Research Forum

Venue: Speigeltent - Edinburgh International Book Festival

Humans have evolved to be altruistic. What is altruism and why does it take the forms it does? Is altruism universal or culturally diverse? In this event three experts discussed the idea of giving, philanthropy, and ways society can work better.

This fascinating discussion of the origins and the uses of human kindness featured Oren Harman, author of The Price of Altruism; Dominic Johnson, Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh; and Ruth Chadwick, Director of Cesagen at the University of Cardiff. Chaired by Steve Sturdy, Deputy Director of the ESRC Genomics Forum.

Further details:

Contact Toni Freitas or phone 0131 651 4747

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