[Sci-tech-public] TODAY @ Harvard: Ulrich Beck - Science & Democracy Lecture, 5 pm

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>From: "Harvard STS" <harvard.sts at gmail.com>
>To: "Harvard STS Circle" <harvard-sts at lists.ksg.harvard.edu>
>Subject: Today, 5-7 pm: Ulrich Beck - Science & Democracy Lecture
>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:06:07 -0500
>
>Sorry for cross postings. But please do not 
>forget we have Ulrich Beck's Science & Democracy 
>Lecture this afternoon (5-7 pm, Tsai Auditorium)!
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>The Program on Science, Technology, and Society 
>at the John F. Kennedy School of Government 
>presents Science & Democracy Lecture Series 2008:
>
>Risk Society's Cosmopolitan Moment:
>Climate change and the opportunity for
>a new world order
>
>Ulrich Beck
>
>Professor of Sociology, University of Munich;
>British Journal of Sociology Professor, London School of Economics
>
>
>Wednesday, November 12, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
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>
>Tsai Auditorium
>1730 Cambridge Street
>CGIS Building
>
>Harvard University
>
>WITH PANELISTS:
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>Peter Hall, Government, Harvard University
>Michèle Lamont, Sociology, Harvard University
>Brian Wynne, Lancaster University
>
>MODERATED BY:
>Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School
>
>Beck's hugely influential 1986 work, Risk 
>Society: Towards a New Modernity, reframed risk 
>as a sociological category, and his concept of 
>"reflexive modernization" fundamentally reshaped 
>both theoretical and policy discussions 
>concerning science and technology. In his 
>lecture, Beck will draw on his recent work on 
>the uncertainties and ambivalence of 
>contemporary cosmopolitan societies to explore 
>global responses to the risks of climate change.
>
>This event is co-sponsored by the School of 
>Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Harvard 
>University Center for the Environment. For more 
>information on Science, Technology, and Society 
>events at Harvard University, please visit: 
><http://ww.hks.harvard.edu/sts/>http://ww.hks.harvard.edu/sts/
>
>This event is free and open to the public.
>
>Contact:
>Lisa Matthews
>Events Coordinator
>Harvard University Center for the Environment
>24 Oxford Street
>Cambridge, MA 02138
><mailto:lisa_matthews at harvard.edu>lisa_matthews at harvard.edu
>p. 617-495-8883
>f. 617-496-0425
>
>
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>Science & Democracy Lecture Series aims at 
>exploring both the promised benefits or 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.
>
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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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