Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

News and events

Below is a list of upcoming and recent events and news of the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard. An archive of past news and events is available as well. All talks are at Harvard facilities unless otherwise noted.

WEEKLY EVENTS


Harvard STS Circle

Mondays, 12:15–2 PM
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106.
Click the link above for details.

SCIENCE & DEMOCRACY LECTURE SERIES


Risk Society's Cosmopolitan Moment: Climate Change and the Opportunity for a New World Order

Ulrich Beck
November 12, 2008, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, Harvard University

Enhancing the Contract: The Federal Government and American Science in a New Administration

Harold Varmus
April 3, 2008, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Yenching Institute Auditorium, Harvard University

Saving Nature in Time: Why Environmentalism Needs History as much as Science

William Cronon
November 29, 2007, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Science Center A, Harvard University

Necessary Fictions: The Decline of Science in the Democratic Imagination

Yaron Ezrahi
April 9, 2007, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School
NOTE: This talk was recorded and is available for viewing online. See above link.

STS EVENTS

WORKSHOP

Emerging Technologies and Regulatory Cultures

April 18, 2008, 10:00am-4:30pm
Center for the Environment.
Program available here. Final report by Monika Kurath and Sheila Jasanoff is available here.
WORKSHOP

The Death and Rebirth of Environmentalism

November 30, 2007, 8:30am-5:00pm
Center for the Environment Seminar Room.
Program available here.
STS CIRCLE

Gaps in the Sciences of Human Enhancement

Philip Campbell (Editor-in-Chief, Nature)
November 5, 2007, 12:15pm-2:00pm, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106.
Part of the STS Circle.
STS CIRCLE

Science, Risk, and Regulation: Lessons from the Tobacco Pandemic

Allan Brandt (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University)
October 15, 2007, 12:15pm-2:00pm, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106.
Part of the STS Circle.
TALK:

An afternoon with Arun Agrawal

Arun Agrawal
April 23, 2007, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Center for the Environment Seminar Room.
TALK:

An afternoon with David Graeber

David Graeber
March 12, 2007, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Center for the Environment Seminar Room.
TALK:

An afternoon with Ramachandra Guha

Ramchandra Guha
December 9, 2006, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Tubman Building, Room 301
CONFERENCE:

Acting Within Reason: Cultural Perspectives on Modern Rationality

May 22, 2006
Center for the Environment Conference Room.
Full program available online




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