Please join us for the first lecture in a new series on:
Please join us tonight at the Starr Auditorium, 2nd Floor of the Belfer
Building, Kennedy School of Government Complex, corner of JFK and Elliot
Streets for....
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Science and Democracy *
A new lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised benefits of
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.
*Inaugural lecture and panel discussion *
*Yaron Ezrahi, Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
"Necessary Fictions: The Decline of Science in the Democratic Imagination"/
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*Panelists*
*Ellen Goodman*, Boston Globe; and Fellow, Shorenstein Center, John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
*James McCarthy*, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological
Oceanography, Departments of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard
*Steven Shapin*, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science,*
*History of Science Department, Harvard
*Cass Sunstein*, Karl N. Llewellyn Dist. Service Professor of
Jurisprudence, Chicago Law School
*Monday, April 9, 2007, 5:00-7:00 pm
Starr Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of
Government, 79 JFK Street, Harvard University*
This event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Harvard University
Center for the Environment.
/Contact - Jenny MacGregor, jenny_macgregor(a)harvard.edu, 617-495-8883/
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Jenny MacGregor
Events and Publications Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment
ph: 617-495-8883
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