Science and Democracy Network Seventh Annual Meeting 2008
The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Science and Democracy Network took place on June 29 through July 1, 2008, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Photographs
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Video
The 2008 SDN meeting was videotaped in its entirety with a small, unobstrusive digital camera. These videos are available for members only. Click here to access them.
Program
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| DAY 1: | Sunday, June 29 |
| 2 | Welcome |
| 2:15 | Introductions |
| 3 | Session 1: Models and Meanings (Chair: Rob Hagendijk) |
| • Stéve Bernardin (Université de Paris I — Panthéon Sorbonne) | |
| Pure Science in a Bureaucracy: Limits of a Necessary Fiction | |
| • Ben Hurlbut (Harvard University) | |
| Confusing Deliberation: What “Cloning” Means for Democracy | |
| • Angela Pereira (European Commission, Joint Research Centre) | |
| “Science and the Movies”: Arts as Interfaces between Science and Society | |
| 5 | SDN Resources: Progess and Prospects (Chair: Sheila Jasanoff) |
| • Cristina Grasseni (Fondazione Bassetti) | |
| • Alex Wellerstein (Harvard University) — Website Updates | |
| • Hideyuki Hirakawa (Osaka University) — SDN and Japan 4S | |
| • SDN's "common pool resources" | |
| 6 | Adjourn for the day |
| 7 | Supper Reception (Sheila's home) |
| DAY 2: | Monday, June 30 |
| 9 | Session 2: Making and Managing Novelty (Chair: David Winickoff) |
| • Ulrike Felt and Maximilian Fochler (University of Vienna) | |
| Civic Imaginations of Democracy and Innovation: How Citizens and Scientists Negotiate Innovation Governance in the Life Sciences | |
| • Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University) | |
| Intellectual Property and the Politics of Emerging Technology: Inventors, Citizens, and Powers to Shape the Future | |
| • Brice Laurent (Ecole des Mines de Paris) | |
| New Forms of Science/Society Relationships in the French Industrial Risk Policy: Innovations and Ambiguities | |
| • Cristina Grasseni (Fondazione Bassetti) — Comments | |
| 11 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Book Session (Chair: Daniel Barben) |
| • Angela Pereira (European Commission, Joint Research Centre) | |
| Science for Policy: New Challenges, New Opportunities (edited with Silvio Funtowicz) | |
| • Tim Forsyth (London School of Economics and Political Science) | |
| Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand (with Andrew Walker) | |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 2 | Session 3: S&TS and the Problem of Democratization (Chair: Shobita Parthasaraty) |
| • Rebecca Ellis (Lancaster University) | |
| Taxonomy, Biodiversity and their Publics in 21st Century DNA Barcoding | |
| • Jenny Reardon (University of California, Santa Cruz) | |
| On Giving a Genomic Account | |
| • Andrew Mathews (University of California, Santa Cruz) | |
| Opaque Transparencies in Mexican Forests: Official Knowledge and Local Concealment | |
| 4 | Coffee Break |
| 4:30 | Session 4: Testing Co-Production — Case Studies (Chair: Regula Valérie Burri) |
| • Bruce Evan Goldstein (Virginia Polytechnic Institute) | |
| The U.S. Fire Learning Network: Coproducing Identity, Ways of Knowing, and Social Order Through Narrative | |
| • Arisa Ema and Yuko Fujigaki (University of Tokyo) | |
| How Information and Communication Technologies Affect “Safety” and “Privacy”: A Case study of RFID Surveillance System to Japanese School Children | |
| • Tiago Mata (Foundation for Science and Technology) | |
| An Uncertain Dollar: The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Monetary Crisis of 1971 to 1973 | |
| 6:30 | Adjourn for the day |
| DAY 3: | Tuesday, July 1 |
| 9 | Session 5: Life and Its Values (Chair: ) |
| • Shobita Parthasarathy (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) | |
| Making Democracy at the Patent Office: The Science and Politics of Patents on Living Organisms | |
| • Kris Saha and David E. Winickoff (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| Opening Life Science Research and Development: Integrative management of Data, IP and Ethics in Stem Cells | |
| • Les Levidow (Open University) | |
| GM Food on Trial: Testing European Democracy | |
| • Annemiek Nelis (Centre for Society and Genomics) | |
| Doing DNA-Dialogue | |
| 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:45 | SDN Resources (Reports) and Working Lunch |
| 1:30 | Session 6: Science and Politics Beyond the Nation State (Chair: Sang-Hyun Kim) |
| • Silke Beck (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ) | |
| From Disgust and Trust: Explaining the Changing Concepts of Public Acceptance in Wastewater Reuse Solutions | |
| • Christophe Bonneuil (Centre Koyré d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques) | |
| The Fabric of Scientific Advice at the WTO: Authority, Selection and Boundary Making in the Agbiotech Dispute | |
| • Rob Hagendijk (Universiteit van Amsterdam) | |
| Science, Technology and Inequality in a Globalizing World | |
| 3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 4 | Future Meetings and Other Business |
| 4:30 | Adjourn |
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