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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=5>The Harvard Kennedy
School Program on Science, Technology and Society is holding a one-day
workshop on<b> Emerging Technologies and Regulatory Cultures</b> on April
18, 2008.</font><br><br>
<font size=5>The workshop will focus on multiple sectors of emerging
S&T, as well as on theoretical and empirical contributions from
several disciplines. Participants will bring varied backgrounds in STS,
history, anthropology, political science, public policy, law and
sociology. The aim is to showcase the latest interdisciplinary thinking
on regulation through new conceptual lenses that pay attention to the
strategies, cultural contexts, and discourses of regulation. <br>
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<font size=4>We have a small number of places for participants who are
not presenting papers. If you are interested, please rsvp to
<a href="mailto:monika_kurath@ksg.harvard.edu">
monika_kurath@ksg.harvard.edu</a><b> no later than Sunday, April 13,
2008</b>.<br>
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<b>Program<br>
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10:00
Welcome<br><br>
<b>Session 1: Comparative Regulatory Cultures<br>
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10:15-10:30
Michael Baram: Globalization and Workplace Hazards in Developing
Nations<br><br>
10:30-10:45
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Eisenberger: Governing Medical Nano-Devices: Conventional and Emerging
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in the European Union<br><br>
10:45-11:00
<x-tab> </x-tab>Henrik
Selin: Coalition Politics and Chemicals Management in a Regulatory
Ambitious
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11:00-11:15
Monika Kurath: Environmental Regulation of Nanomaterials in the
U.S.<br><br>
11:15-11:45
Discussion<br><br>
<b>Session 2: Sites of Innovation<br>
</b><br>
12:00-12:15
<x-tab> </x-tab>Dan
Carpenter: FDA book draft, Chapter 6: Reputation and the Organizational
Politics
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Review<br><br>
12:15-12:30
<x-tab> </x-tab>Chris
Bosso: Nanotechnology and 21st Century Governance: Regulating Under
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12:30-12:45
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Discussion<br><br>
12:45-1:45
<x-tab> </x-tab>Lunch<br><br>
<b>Session 3: National imaginaries of technoscientific developments<br>
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1:45-2:00
<x-tab> </x-tab>Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim: Containing
the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries
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Regulation in the U.S. and South Korea<br><br>
2:00-2:15
<x-tab> </x-tab>John Wargo: Narrative Advantage and Emerging
Technologies: Lessons from 20th
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Environmental History <br><br>
2:15-2:30
<x-tab> </x-tab>Chris Kelty: Responsibility in
Nanotechnology<br><br>
2:30-3:00
<x-tab> </x-tab>Discussion<br><br>
3:00-3:15
<x-tab> </x-tab>Coffee break<br><br>
<b>Session
4:
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participation, deliberation, and
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3:15-3:30
<x-tab> </x-tab>Regula Valérie Burri: Public Engagement in
Nanotech.<br><br>
3:30-3:45
<x-tab> </x-tab>Margaret Quinn: Environmental, Health and
Safety Risk Management among
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Firms in Massachusetts<br><br>
3:45-4:30
<x-tab> </x-tab>Discussion and Wrap-Up<br>
<br><br>
Dr. Monika Kurath<br>
Visiting Researcher at the Program on Science, Technology &
Society<br>
<font color="#060606">Harvard Kennedy School<br>
Mailbox 17<br>
79 JFK Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02138-5801, USA<br>
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Phone: +1 617 876 4960<br>
cell: + 1 617 821 5796<br>
E-mail:
<a href="mailto:monika.kurath@collegium.ethz.ch">
monika.kurath@collegium.ethz.ch</a><br>
<a href="http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~kurath/" eudora="autourl">
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~kurath/</a><br><br>
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