Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University

Fall 2026

September 2, 2026

Sep. 14:
Søren Riis (Roskilde University, Science Studies)
The Sociotechnical Constitution of Time

Sep. 21:
Oliwia Mandrela (Jagiellonian University, Sociology)
Time in Longevity Biotechnology: Quantifying the Good Life and Reconfiguring the Social Order

Sep. 28:
Gal Dafadi (Brandeis, Anthropology)
Governing Reproductive Technologies in Times of Conflict: Emerging Developments in Contemporary Israel

Oct. 5:
Yvonne Frankfurth (Harvard STS)
Symbolic Repair: Governing Reproduction in Germany

Oct. 19:
T.J. Foley (Harvard STS)
New Caesars: Antitrust Law as Political Theory from Rockefeller to Zuckerberg

Oct. 26:
Irus Braverman (SUNY Buffalo, Law)
Pastoral Warfare: Animals as Weapons of Israel's Settler Ecologies

Nov. 2:
Jan Komárek (Charles University, Law)
Constitutional Scholarship as Diffuse Expertise: A Dialogue between Law and STS

Nov. 9:
Gabriella Coleman (Harvard, Anthropology)
The Contemporary Crisis Around Epistemology: Between Naïve Positivism and Sturdy Knowledge

Nov. 16:
Mark Lannigan (Harvard STS)
Whose AI? Whose Justice? Congressional Approaches to a Just AI Future

Nov. 23:
Przemyslaw Matt Lukacz (Harvard, History of Science)
Algorithms in Policy, Policy in Algorithms, Science in Both: Ecological Integration of the European Seas

Nov. 30:
Michael John Gorman (MIT Museum)
Museums as Brokers of Public Trust