News and events
				News and events relating to the ISN are 
				listed here in reverse chronological order
				
				    Due to scheduling and other difficulties, the ISN was not able to organize a 
                    summer confernence in 2010. We hope to be back in 2011—stay tuned!
				The ISN held its third annual Summer Seminar 
				on "Reduction, Emergence, and Essence" June 15-19, 
				2009 at MIT.
				
The ISN sponsored the Insurgent Science Series as part of MIT's January 2009 Independent 
				Activities Period.
				The text of one lecture is available from the Series page.
				    The Institute held its second annual Summer 
                    Seminar (June 
                    9-13, 2008) and Summer Conference 
                    (June 13-14, 2008) at the Massachussets Institute of 
                    Technology.
                    
    	            Dr. Bernhardt L. Trout of MIT 
                    joined forces with the ISN.
                    
		            Information on the first annual Summer 
				Seminar (June 11-16, 2007) “Does Nature Act for an End?: Teleology Reconsidered,” 
				and Summer 
				Conference (June 16-17, 2007)  “The Nature of Nature,” University of Illinois 
				at Urbana-Champaign campus.
				
				Other activities involving the Fellows of the ISN
				
				Burt Hopkins spoke at St. John's College, Annapolis on 
				Friday, April 3, 2009. His talk was entited "The Unwritten Teachings in Plato Symposium: Socrates' Initiation into the Arithmos of Eros."