[Sci-tech-public] Harvard STS Program Workshop on April 18

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>The Harvard Kennedy School Program on Science, 
>Technology and Society is holding a one-day 
>workshop on Emerging Technologies and Regulatory Cultures on April 18, 2008.
>
>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.
>
>We have a small number of places for 
>participants who are not presenting papers. If 
>you are interested, please rsvp to 
><mailto:monika_kurath at ksg.harvard.edu>monika_kurath at ksg.harvard.edu 
>no later than Sunday, April 13, 2008.
>
>
>Program
>
>10:00             Welcome
>
>Session 1: Comparative Regulatory Cultures
>
>10:15-10:30             Michael Baram: 
>Globalization and Workplace Hazards in Developing Nations
>
>10:30-10:45                     Iris 
>Eisenberger: Governing Medical Nano-Devices: 
>Conventional and 
>Emerging                     Regulatory Tools in the European Union
>
>10:45-11:00                     Henrik Selin: 
>Coalition Politics and Chemicals Management in a 
>Regulatory Ambitious                     Europe
>
>11:00-11:15             Monika Kurath: 
>Environmental Regulation of Nanomaterials in the U.S.
>
>11:15-11:45             Discussion
>
>Session 2: Sites of Innovation
>
>12:00-12:15                     Dan Carpenter: 
>FDA book draft, Chapter 6: Reputation and the 
>Organizational Politics                    of New Drug Review
>
>12:15-12:30                     Chris Bosso: 
>Nanotechnology and 21st Century Governance: 
>Regulating Under                       Uncertainty
>
>12:30-12:45                     Discussion
>
>12:45-1:45              Lunch
>
>Session 3: National imaginaries of technoscientific developments
>
>1:45-2:00               Sheila Jasanoff and 
>Sang-Hyun Kim: Containing the Atom: 
>Sociotechnical 
>Imaginaries                      and Nuclear 
>Regulation in the U.S. and South Korea
>
>2:00-2:15               John Wargo: Narrative 
>Advantage and Emerging Technologies: Lessons 
>from 20th                    Century Environmental History
>
>2:15-2:30               Chris Kelty: Responsibility in Nanotechnology
>
>2:30-3:00               Discussion
>
>3:00-3:15               Coffee break
>
>Session 4:              Changing rules and norms 
>of democratic participation, deliberation, 
>and                         reasoning
>
>3:15-3:30               Regula Valérie Burri: Public Engagement in Nanotech.
>
>3:30-3:45               Margaret Quinn: 
>Environmental, Health and Safety Risk Management 
>among                  Nanotechnology Firms in Massachusetts
>
>3:45-4:30               Discussion and Wrap-Up
>
>
>Dr. Monika Kurath
>Visiting Researcher at the Program on Science, Technology & Society
>Harvard Kennedy School
>Mailbox 17
>79 JFK Street
>Cambridge, MA 02138-5801, USA
>
>Phone: +1 617 876 4960
>cell: + 1 617 821 5796
>E-mail: 
><mailto:monika.kurath at collegium.ethz.ch>monika.kurath at collegium.ethz.ch
>http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~kurath/
>
>
>
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