Schedule

Sunday, August 11th

3:00-6:30

Arrival & Check-in

All participants

6:30-8:30

Welcome Dinner (Maharaja, Harvard Square)

Students & Local Organizers (visiting faculty opt-in)

Monday, August 12th

9:00-10:30

Welcome and Introductions

Jasanoff, Hurlbut, all participants

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-12:00

Course Organization and Q&A

Jasanoff | Hurlbut

12:00-1:30

Lunch

Afternoon: Classic Controversies

1:30-3:00

Expertise and Trust: Perspectives from STS

Hurlbut | Jasanoff

3:00-3:30

Coffee

3:30-5:00

Nuclear Energy Debates

Bunn | Hilgartner

5:00-6:00

Review & discussion; final projects

Roundtable

6:00-8:00

Dinner (HUCE)

All hands

Tuesday, August 13th

Morning: Environmental Governance

9:00-10:30

IPCC and climate credibility (interview and discussion)

J. McCarthy | Miller (moderator)

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-12:30

GMOs: Culture and Controversy

Joly | Jasanoff

12:30-2:00

Lunch (with guest)

G. McCarthy

Afternoon: Expertise in Law and Science

2:00-3:00

Experts in Court: Power and Deference

Jasanoff

3:00-4:00

Abortion and the Politics of Evidence

Ahmed

4:00-4:30

Coffee

4:30-5:30

Law as Maker of Facts and Powers

Kennedy

5:30-6:00

Review & Discussion – Day 2

Law roundtable

6:30-8:00

Dinner at HLS Pub  (1585 Massachusetts Ave)

Wednesday, August 14th

Rule of Experts: Standards and their Failures

9:00-10:00

International Standards

Busch

10:00-11:00

Corporate Values (Rana Plaza)

Danielsen

11:00-11:30

Coffee

11:30-12:30

Roundtable: Standardizing Corporate (Social) Responsibility

Pfotenhauer  (moderator)

12:30-2:15

Lunch breakout groups to discuss student research

Faculty-Students

3:00-5:15

MIT Media Lab (meet in lobby of 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge)

Samantha Bates

5:15-

Free Time (e.g., Boston MFA); no organized dinner

STS Fellows

Thursday, August 15th

Morning: Public Understanding and Democracy

9:00-10:30

Public Engagement Experiments

Laurent | Stilgoe

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-12:30

Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Independence of Scholarly Research

Nelson | Hurlbut

12:30-2:00

Lunch (with guest)

Sittenfeld

Afternoon: Media and Expertise

2:00-3:30

Reporting Experts (moderated discussion)

Begley, Smart, Hurlbut

3:30-4:00

Coffee

4:00-5:30

Deep Fake: Experts, Ethics, and New Media

Tomassini |

Margiotta

6:30-8:00

Dinner (HUCE)

Friday, August 16th

Morning: Innovation, Risk, and Responsibility

9:00-10:00

Infrastructures of Credibility

Miller

10:00-11:00

Risk and Insurance

Hilgartner

11:00-11:30

Coffee

11:30-12:30

Autonomous Vehicles

Stilgoe

12:30:2:00

Lunch

Afternoon: Making Expertise Work

2:00-4:00

Producing Public Knowledge

Student

Presentations

4:00-4:30

Coffee

4:30-5:30

Producing Public Knowledge cont.

Discussion

6:30-9:00

Dinner (Nubar at Sheraton Commander)

Saturday, August 17th

Morning: Wrap-Up

9:00-10:30

Roundtable: Revisiting “Post-truth”

Faculty | Students

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-12:30

Collective debrief: Lessons learned, look ahead

All hands

12:30

Adjourn | Bag lunch