Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University

Fall 2025

August 24, 2025

Sep. 8:
Alistair Sponsel (Tufts University, History)
Dreamscapes of British Biotechnology circa 1980
Note: Will begin at 12pm

Sep. 15:
Sebastian Pfotenhauer (Technical University Munich, STS)
Innovation Cultures Revisited: Narratives, Values, and Directionality in Remaking Regions

Sep. 22:
Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Harvard SEAS)
America's Social Contract with S&T at a Time of Seismic Change
Note: CGIS South S250

Sep. 29:
Mason Barnard (Harvard Law School)
Who Governs the T-Shirt? Towards a Theory of Labor Governance

Oct. 6:
Shira Zilberstein (Harvard, Sociology)
The Organizational Dynamics of Applied Science: Developing Healthcare AI

Oct. 20:
Felice Frankel (MIT, Chemical Engineering)
Framing Reality: Ethics and Illusion in AI and Scientific Imaging

Oct. 27:
Julia Menzel (University of Toronto Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology)
Austerity Politics and the End of Cold War Science

Nov. 3:
Oliver Lazarus (Harvard, History of Science)
The Pen and the Plow: American Agricultural Science and the Infrastructures of Domestication

Nov. 10:
Theo Aalders (Humboldt Fellow, Harvard STS)
Infrastructural Ghosts and the Specter of Sabotage

Nov. 17:
Thea N. Riofrancos (Providence College)
Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

Nov. 24:
Moira Weigel (Harvard, Comp Lit)
From Aurola to ZGGCD: Building Machine Readable Brands Across Global Platforms

Dec. 1:
Kyle Schirmann (Harvard Business School)
Narrative and the Causal Turn in Management Research