Trauma and the Environment: How Then Shall We Live?
Friday, March 11, 2022 - Sunday, March 13, 2022
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
The twenty first annual Goshen Conference on Religion and Science took place Friday, March 11, 2022, through Sunday, March 13, 2022. The speakers for the 2022 conference were Dr. Ann Pederson and Dr. Jennifer Gubbels of Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota who presented the conference message together.
The titles of the lectures are as follows:
Lecture #1: Seeing the Place of Science and Religion: Epigenetics and Extended Mind
Lecture #2: Inherited Trauma: Epigenetics and Preterm Birth
Lecture #3: Trauma and Resilience: Memory, Place, and Religion
Download the conference schedule (PDF).
Dr. Ann Pederson

Dr. Jennifer Gubbels
Dr. Jennifer A. A. Gubbels is an Associate Professor and Chair of Biology at Augustana University. She teaches introductory biology, physiology, immunology, and has team-taught courses on medical ethics along with history and religion professors. Her research is in reproductive physiology, where she has published 12 peer-reviewed publications on ovarian cancer, and has recently begun studies to determine the molecular cause for preterm birth. In addition, she has led a research project to determine the stressors experienced by American Indian pregnant women on reservations in SD. Gubbels has also published in journals outside of her main area of expertise, including the Journal for Microbiology and Biology Education as well as Zygon, a religion and science journal (along with Dr. Ann Pederson). She has been an invited guest lecturer to seminaries as a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “Science for Seminaries” grant. Gubbels is a member of the Society for Reproductive Investigation.