[Sci-tech-public] TODAY -- Reminder--Science and Democracy Lecture Series - Monday, April 9

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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


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