Science and Democracy Network Eighth Annual Meeting 2009
The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Science and Democracy Network (SDN) was held from Monday, June 29, 2009 to Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Photographs
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Video
Most of the 2009 SDN meeting was videotaped with a small, unobstrusive digital camera. These videos are available for members only. Click here to access them.
Program
Below is an HTML version of the program. For a PDF version, click here.
The link to the papers (password-protected) will be posted soon, please check back.
Day 1: Monday, June 29
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:15 | Introductions |
| 10:00 | Session 1: Democracy |
| Chair: Les Levidow (Open University) | |
| Charles Thorpe (University of California, San Diego) | |
| Participation as Post-Fordist Politics: Demos, New Labour, and STS | |
| Erik Aarden (Maastricht University) | |
| 'Socialising' European Research — A Direction for Democratisation? | |
| Silke Beck (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ) | |
| A Democracy Paradox in Studies of Science and Technology? | |
| Tim Forsyth (London School of Economics) | |
| The Boundary Politics of Adaptation Science | |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Session 2: Scientists at Work |
| Chair: Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna) | |
| Alex Wellerstein (Harvard University) | |
| What can nuclear weapons tell us about the regulation of emergent technologies? | |
| Regula Valérie Burri (ETH Zurich & University of Basel) | |
| Visions of public engagement: nanoscientists' understandings of science-society interactions | |
| Annalisa Salonius (Cornell University) | |
| Delegate or Perish: Competitive Federal Grants and the Current Organization of Research and Training in Academic Labs in the Biomedical Sciences | |
| Brian Wynne (Lancaster University) | |
| 'Biotagging', 'Climate Bubble' Manchester and the Open Air Laboratories Network: interdisciplinary critique of two recent experiments in environmental mass observation | |
| 3:30 | Break |
| 4:00 | Session 3: Intellectual Property |
| Chair: David Winickoff (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| Pierre-Benoit Joly (INRA/SenS and IFRIS, Université Paris Est) | |
| Patents and post reductionism in molecular biology — A study of patents on small RNA | |
| Jonathan Kahn (Hamline University School of Law) | |
| The Persistence of Race in Biotech Patenting and Drug Development | |
| Martin Rémondet (IFRIS — Unité INRA / SENS) | |
| Regimes of knowledge production in tension — Patenting animal cloning between assisted reproduction and biotechnology | |
| Shobita Parthasarathy (University of Michigan) | |
| Postmodern Bureaucracy? Science and the Public Interest at the European Patent Office | |
| 6:00 | SDN Resources: Progress and Prospects |
| Chair: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy School) | |
| 6:30 | Adjourn for the day |
| 7:15 | Reception at Sheila's home |
Day 2: Tuesday, June 30
| 9:00 | Session 4: Science, State, Co–production |
| Chair: Andrew S. Mathews (University of California, Santa Cruz) | |
| Grischa Metlay (Harvard University) | |
| Instrumental Solutions for Complex Problems: Alcohol and Drug Problems in the United States, 1970-2000 | |
| Frank N. Laird (University of Denver) | |
| State–Society Relations, Socio–technical Imaginaries, and Path Dependence: Comparing Renewable Energy Policies in Germany and the United States | |
| Robert Doubleday and Matthew Kearnes (Durham University) | |
| Science and the State: UK Science Policy and the Enactment of British Liberalism | |
| Huub Dijstelbloem (Rathenau Institute) | |
| Governing the Technological Borders of Europe | |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:15 | Book Session |
| Fischer, Michael, Anthropological Futures, Experimental Futures, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009). | |
| Erik Fisher, Cynthia Selin, and Jameson M. Westmore, eds.,The Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, Volume 1: Presenting Futures, Series Ed. David H. Guston, (Springer, 2008). | |
| Levidow, Les and Susan Carr, GM Food on Trial: Testing European Democracy, Genetics and Society, (Routledge, forthcoming 2010). | |
| 12:30 | Lunch (Group Picture) |
| 2:00 | Session 5: Science and Decisions |
| Chair: Ângela Pereira (European Commission, Joint Research Centre) | |
| Tsuyoshi Hondou (Tohoku University) and Tamiko Nakamura (Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University) | |
| Toward Effective Treatment of Scientific Evidence in Cross–examination, a Case Study | |
| Pia M. Kohler (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) | |
| When Does a Chemical Warrant a Global Ban? Negotiating the threshold for risks from persistent organic pollutants (POPs) | |
| Arienne Naber (Delft University of Technology) | |
| Crowdsourcing in Water Management Decision Making | |
| Roopali Phadke (Macalester College) | |
| Defending Place in the Google Earth Age | |
| 4:00 | Break |
| 4:30 | Roundtable |
| Chairs: Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University) and Clark Miller (Arizona State University) | |
| 6:30 | Adjourn for the day |
Day 3: Wednesday, July 1
| 9:00 | Session 6: Legitimacy, Ethics, and Trust |
| Chair: Kjetil Rommetveit (University of Bergen) | |
| Geert J. Somsen (Maastricht University) | |
| Science and Democracy: The Origins of a Liaison in Second World War Propaganda | |
| Sujatha Raman and Alison Mohr (University of Nottingham) | |
| Capturing the Public or Evoking the Moral Codes of Science? Reflections on the politics of public engagement | |
| Gregory M. Hill (University of Portland & Institute for Culture and Ecology) | |
| Uncertainty, Precaution and Resilience: a Case Study in the Columbia River Basin | |
| Hannot Rodríguez (Arizona State University) | |
| Public Trust in Risk Regulatory Institutions: Three Models of Trust for Three Challenges of Risk Analysis | |
| 11:00 | Break |
| 11:30 | SDN Resources (Reports) |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 | Future Meetings and Other Business |
| 2:00 | Adjourn for the day |
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