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To: "Harvard STS Circle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
Tsai Auditorium
1730 Cambridge Street
CGIS Building
Harvard University
WITH PANELISTS:
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
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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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