Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard

Harvard Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University

Spring 2026

January 30, 2026

Feb. 2:
Paul Samson (Center for International Governance Innovation)
Artificial Intelligence Scenarios and Global Governance

Feb. 9:
Eric M. Gurevitch (Harvard, History of Science)
Which Goddess of Technology? Artisan Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia

Feb. 23:
Florian Charvolin (Université Jean Monnet)
Citizen Science at Large: New Trends in Participatory Knowledge Production in France

Mar. 2:
Guy Priver (Harvard Law)
Constructing the Local: Law, Planning, and Development Expertise in Divided Cities

Mar. 9:
Aditi Barman Roy (Harvard STS)
Reproductive Futures: Ectogenesis and the Speculative Turn in Bioethics

Mar. 23:
Victor Seow (Harvard, History of Science)
"In the Service of Production": Labor Psychology in Socialist China

Mar. 30:
Aaron Gluck-Thaler (U. Toronto, Munk School)
Intelligence Reform in Cold War America

Apr. 6:
Cameron Hu (Wesleyan, Center for the Humanities)
On Planet Texas: American Fracking and the Metaphysics of Imperialism

Apr. 13:
John Woodward (Boston University Law)
Biometrics in the U.S. Department of Defense: From an Abstract Idea to Identity Intelligence

Apr. 20:
Jonathan Kahn (Northeastern Law)
The Legal Weaponization of Racialized DNA

Apr. 27:
Andreas Folkers (Columbia University, Marie Curie Fellow)
Disposing Fossil Modernity: The Technopolitics of Carbon Removal