"Sin, Science and Seismic Shocks: The Jamaica Earthquake of 1692 and the Science of Disaster"

Speaker: 

Louis Gerdelan, PhD candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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"'To Enter Their Territory': Mosquitoes, Health, and Science in the Streets of Rio de Janeiro"

Speaker: 

Luisa Reis Castro, Martin Fellow and PhD candidate, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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"Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculative Technologies"

Panelists:

Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jason Jackson, Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History & Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University.

Moderator:

Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact: STS Program sts@hks.harvard.edu

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"Climate Change from the Streets"

Speaker: 

Michael Mendez, Assistant Professor, School of Social Ecology, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California, Irvine.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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"The (Non)Imaginaries of “Data” in Law, and their Politics"

Speaker: 

Przemyslaw Palka, Research Scholar in Law and Private Law Fellow, Yale Law School.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
sts@hks.harvard.edu

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"Foreign Bodies: On Medicine and Labor in the United States"

Speaker: 

Eram Alam, Assistant Professor in History of Medicine, Department of History of Science, Harvard University.

Moderator: 

Sam Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
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“When Repair Becomes Harm: Science, Law, and the Pursuit of Justice in Chile”

Speaker:

Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator:

Samuel Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
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"Computational Social Science: 10 Years Later"

Speaker: 

Karen Huang, PhD Candidate, Organizational Behavior, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society.

Moderator: 

Samuel Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
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"Viral Science and the Tragedy of the Scientific Commons"

Speaker: 

Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Moderator: 

Samuel Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
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"Computation and the Search for Fairness in Representative Democracy"

Speaker: 

Moon Duchin, Associate Professor of Mathematics; Senior Fellow, Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University.

Moderator: 

Samuel Weiss Evans, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

STS Program
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"Agency and Automation: Digital Disobedience and Its Infrastructure"

Speaker:

Robin Celikates, Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy, University of Amsterdam; Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.

Moderator:

Tito Carvalho, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

Tito Carvalho
tito_carvalho@hks.harvard.edu

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"Materializing Time: The Techno-Scientific Transformation of Olive Agriculture in Israel/Palestine"

Speaker:

Natalia Gutkowski, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Porter School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Moderator:

Tito Carvalho, Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

Tito Carvalho
tito_carvalho@hks.harvard.edu
 
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"Imitation, Invasion, Innovation: What Really Matters in Global History of Technology"

Speaker:

David Edgerton, Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology, King’s College London.

Moderator:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Panelists:

Warwick Anderson, Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Contact:

Harvard Science, Technology, and Society Program
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"Discriminating Data"

Speaker:

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University.

Moderator:

Tito Carvalho, Fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Contact:

Tito Carvalho
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"Rats, Science, and Development in Tanzania (1970 to 2019)"

Speaker:

Jia Hui Lee, PhD Candidate, Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator:

Tito Carvalho, Science, Technology & Society Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science, Technology & Society, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Tito Carvalho
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