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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear All,<br><br>
We're looking forward to welcoming you for the first lecture in a new
series on<br><br>
Science and Democracy<br>
A new lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised benefits of
our<br>
era's most salient scientific and technological breakthroughs and
the<br>
potentially harmful consequences of developments that are
inadequately<br>
understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay publics, and
policy<br>
institutions.<br><br>
Inaugural lecture and panel discussion<br><br>
<div align="center"> <font size=4><b>Yaron Ezrahi,
Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem<br>
"Necessary Fictions: The Decline of Science in
the Democratic Imagination"<br>
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Panelists:<br>
Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe; Fellow, Shorenstein Center, John F. Kennedy
School of Government,
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James McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological
Oceanography, Departments of Organismic
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and Planetary Sciences, Harvard<br>
Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science,
History of Science Department, Harvard<br>
Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Dist. Service Professor of
Jurisprudence, Chicago Law School<br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=4><b>April 9, 2007, 5:00-7:00
pm</b></font><br>
Starr Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government, <br>
Belfer Building, 79 JFK Street, Harvard University<br>
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This event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the
School<br>
of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Harvard University Center
for<br>
the Environment.<br><br>
Contact - Jessica Eykholt, jessica_eykholt@harvard.edu,
617-495-5636<br><br>
--<br>
Jessica Li-chiung Eykholt<br>
Faculty Assistant-Specialist<br>
John Kennedy School of Government<br>
Harvard University<br>
79 John F. Kennedy Street<br>
Littauer 355, Mail Box 17<br>
Cambridge, MA 02138<br><br>
Tel: 617-495-5636<br>
Fax: 617-496-5960</blockquote>
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