[Sci-tech-public] April 8, 9: Machineries of Representation @ Kennedy School

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:40:17 -0500
>To: sci-tech-public at MIT.EDU
>From: J Dumit <dumit at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Machineries of Representation
>
>Hello all, I don't think the most recent schedule for the conference this 
>weekend was sent to the sci-tech-studies list.
>
>Machineries of Representation
>Preliminary Program
>John F. Kennedy School of Government
>April 8-9, 2005
>
>April 8, 2005 (HUCE Conference Room, Third Floor of the Geological Museum)
>
>8:30 - 9:00     Registration
>
>9:00 - 10:15    Citizenship, Apathy and Engagement
>         Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University): Representation and Citizenship
>         Ted Porter (UCLA):  The Machinery of Public Objectivity
>
>10:15 - 10:30   Break
>         An election display on view throughout the workshop:
>         Voting Machinery, Counting, and Public Proofs
>         Michael Lynch, Stephen Hilgartner, and Carin Berkowitz
>
>10:30 - 1:00    Representing Nature
>                 Chair and moderator: Harriet Ritvo (MIT)
>Naomi Oreskes (University of California - San Diego)
>Marybeth Long Martello (Harvard University): Global Change Science and 
>Politics in the Arctic: Creating a Human Face (and Voice?) for Climate Change
>Brian Wynne (Lancaster University): Representing Nature - Performing 
>Subjects and Citizens
>Dan Schrag (Harvard University)
>
>1:00 - 2:30     Lunch
>Richard Lindzen (MIT): When Consensus and Alarm Part Ways
>Jim McCarthy (Harvard University)
>
>2:30 - 5:00     Patients, Pathologies and Power
>         Chair and moderator: Joe Dumit (MIT)
>Evelynn Hammonds (Harvard University)
>Stefan Sperling (Princeton University)
>Emily Martin (New York University): Representing a Category of Madness
>Michel Callon (Ecole des Mines de Paris): From Representation to
>         Demonstration and Back: The Case of Disabled Bodies/Persons
>
>7:00            Conference Dinner or Reception
>
>
>April 9, 2005 Malkin Penthouse, Fourth Floor Littauer Building, JFK School
>
>9:00 - 12:00    Political Representation
>         Chair and moderator: Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University)
>Thomas Patterson (Harvard University)
>Jane Mansbridge (Harvard University)
>Geoffrey Bowker (Santa Clara University): Representing the World in a Database
>Clark Miller (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Electoral Representation 
>in the        New Age of Machine Politics
>
>12:00 - 1:30    Lunch
>
>1:30 - 3:00     Reflections on Representation
>                 Yaron Ezrahi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
>
>3:00 - 4:00     Discussion
>
>4:00 - 4:15     Afterword
>         Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University)
>
>
>The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) Conference Room 
>is located at 24 Oxford Street, on the third floor of the Geological 
>Museum. Enter the main lobby of Hoffmann Building (20 Oxford Street) and 
>take elevator to third floor. Exit elevator and turn right down short 
>corridor. There is a door on the right which will lead you to an outside 
>walkway and to the HUCE door.
>
>  The Kennedy School is located at 79 JFK Street.  For directions to the 
> KennedySchool please see  http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/main/directions.htm 
> .  On the weekends, the only way to enter the Kennedy School is through 
> the Eliot Street courtyard. Enter through the double doors of the 
> Littauer Building. Turn left upon entering the building and take the 
> elevator to floor P (penthouse)/4th Floor.
>
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