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
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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:
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http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~kurath/
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