The Program on Science, Technology, and Society, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government presents: Science and Democracy, a lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised benefits or our era's most salient scientific and technological breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay publics, and policy institutions. William Cronon Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies and Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison "Saving Nature in Time: Why Environmentalism Needs History as much as Science" Panelists David Blackbourn, Department of History, Harvard University Peter Galison, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Mike Hulme, Tyndall Center, United Kingdom Thursday, November 29, 5:00 - 7:00p Science Center Lecture Hall A Harvard University One Oxford Street, Cambridge In this lecture, drawn from a forthcoming book of the same title, William Cronon will examine the key cultural assumptions about humanity and nature that have characterized modern American environmental thinking, and which have sometimes undermined the effectiveness of environmentalism as a political, social, and cultural movement. In his book and lecture, Cronon will discuss how environmentalism might become more effective if its followers did a better job of considering nature and culture as a single linked system in the service of humane values. This event is co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. For more information on Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University, please visit: www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/ This event is free and open to the public. Contact: Lisa Matthews Events Coordinator Harvard University Center for the Environment 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 lisa_matthews(a)harvard.edu p. 617-495-8883 f. 617-496-0425