[Sci-tech-public] February 9th STS Colloquium: Calestous Juma

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Please join us on Monday, February 9th:

STS Colloquium

Agricultural Biotechnology and Society: African Perspectives

Calestous Juma
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

4:00 pm, MIT, <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51&mapsearch=go>E51-095


This talk examines the sources of social resistance to agricultural 
biotechnology in African countries. It builds on the findings of 
"Freedom to Innovate: Biotechnology and Africa's Development" 
prepared for the African High-Level Panel on Modern Biotechnology of 
the African Union.

Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International 
Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and 
Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School.

This lecture is part of the STS 2009 Spring Colloquia on "Science and 
Technology in Africa, Asia, and Beyond."

Please save the dates below for other talks in our STS spring series:

February 23
AIDS and its Futures: Drugs, Clinical Trials, and US Foreign Policy to Nigeria
Kristin Peterson, University of California, Irvine

March 2
'Sustainable Development' from Tanxania to Chicago: Tracking the 
Subaltern in STS Studies
Chris Walley, MIT

March 9
Sanctions, Containment and Science in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Dara Entekhabi, MIT

April 6
Future Imperfect: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Cultures of Public Policy
Sheila Jasanoff, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard 
University; MIT (visiting)

April 13
Building a Science Hub in the 21st Century: Singapore 2000-2008
Edison Liu, National University of Singapore; Genome Institute of 
Singapore (Biopolis); Human Genome Organization

April 27
Trials, Transitions and Translations: Transnational Transformations 
of Indian Biomedicine
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of California, Irvine;
with Martha Gray, MIT

All talks are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm at MIT Building 
<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E51&mapsearch=go>E51-095.

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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