Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University
STS Workshop

Human Nature in the Public Sphere

April 30, 2012, 9:15AM-5:30PM
Basement Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard

Abstract

A symposium with John Carson (Michigan) and Baruch Fishhoff (Carnegie Mellon); comments from Elizabeth Lunbeck (Vanderbilt), Andrew Jewett (Harvard), Natasha Schüll (MIT), and Jennifer Lerner (Harvard).

Human Nature in the Public Sphere

Monday, April 30, 2012

Basement Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University

Workshop co-sponsored by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard and the Harvard Kennedy School Program on Science, Technology and Society

PROGRAM

 

9:15                 Registration and coffee

9:30                 Welcome and introductions (Jamie Cohen-Cole and Sheila Jasanoff)

10:00               Speaker:  John Carson (Michigan), “The Sciences of Human Nature and their Histories”

10:45               Coffee

11:15               Comments:

      • Andrew Jewett (Harvard)
      • Elizabeth Lunbeck (Vanderbilt)

11:45               General Discussion (Chair: Cohen Cole)

12:30               Lunch

2:00                 Speaker:  Baruch Fischhoff (Carnegie Mellon), “Contemporary Science of Decision Making”

2:45                 Comments:

      • Jennifer Lerner (Harvard Kennedy School)
      • Natasha Schull (MIT)

3:15                 General Discussion (Chair: Jasanoff)

4:00                 Coffee

4:30                 Discussion:  Cross cutting themes

5:30                 Adjourn