Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University

Spring 2023

January 20, 2023

Jan. 30:
Jamie Wong (HASTS, MIT)
Crowdsourced Cats: Machine Learning as Culture in Chinese Governance

Feb. 6:
Sam Weiss Evans (Harvard STS & Harvard SEAS)
Governance of Security Concerns in Science

Feb. 13:
Rahul Bhatia (Harvard Radcliffe Institute)
India’s Biometric Identity Project
LOCATION CHANGE: Bell Hall, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St

Feb. 27:
Marlise Schneider (Technical University Munich & Harvard STS)
Ever Upward? Microchip Futures for New York’s Rustbelt

Mar. 6:
Arunabh Ghosh (History, Harvard)
China and Global Small Hydropower in the 1980s

Mar. 20:
Abigail Coplin (Vassar)
The Precarious Expert: Science and the State During China’s GMO Controversy

Mar. 27:
Martin Abbott (S&TS, Cornell)
Fragile New Orleans. Fortress New Orleans

Apr. 3:
Andy Murray (Harvard STS)
Democracy in a Dish? Open Insulin and the Democratization of Biotechnology

Apr. 10:
Elizabeth Dietz (ASU & Harvard STS)
No Choice But to Choose: Informed Consent, Abortion, and the Politics of Denying Politics

Apr. 17:
Larry Au (City College of New York)
Chinese Scientists and Imaginaries of Global Science

Apr. 24:
Neil Safier (Brown)
Translating the Plantationocene from the Prevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil