Program


STS 20+20
April 7-9, 2011
Harvard University

This meeting is open to the public, but registration is now complete. There will also be a live video feed and commentary on this site during the conference for those unable to attend in person. Please email us if you have any questions.

Thursday, April 7: STS AND THE DISCIPLINES

Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School

2:00 :: Does STS Matter, and to Whom?

Chair: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard)
Speaker: Theodore Porter (UCLA)
Discussant: Andrew Jewett (Harvard)

3:00 :: STS and the Law: Reframing Rights

Chair:Jeannie Suk (Harvard Law School)
Introduction: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard)
Discussant: Douglas Kysar (Yale Law School)

4:00 :: Break

 

4:15 :: STS, Politics, and Public Management: Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Chair: Daniel Barben (Aachen)
Introduction: Andrew Lakoff (USC)
Discussant: Alan Irwin (Copenhagen Business School)

5:15 :: STS, Economics, and Sociology: Do Economists Make Markets?

Chair: Joan Fujimura (Wisconsin)
Introduction: Pierre-Benoit Joly (Paris-Est and IFRIS)
Discussant: David Stark (Columbia)

6:30 :: Reception

 

Friday, April 8: STS AND ITS THEORIES

Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard Museum of Natural History

9:00 :: Defining the Boundaries

Chair: Suman Seth (Cornell)
Provocateur: Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Chicago) (Text)
Discussants:
Javier Lezaun (Said School, Oxford)
David Winickoff (UC Berkeley)

11:00::Break

 

11:15 :: STS on Difference

Chair: Jeremy Greene (Harvard)
Provocateur: Steven Epstein (Northwestern) (Text)
Discussants:
Nelly Oudshoorn (Twente)
Sherine Hamdy (Brown)

1:15 :: Lunch Break

 

2:15 :: STS and the Public Sphere

Chair: John Dryzek (ANU, Canberra)
Provocateur: Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard) (Text) (Slides)
Discussants:
Myles Jackson (NYU Polytechnic)
Brian Wynne (Lancaster)

4:00 :: Break

 

4:15 :: Opening the Black Box

Chair: Langdon Winner (RPI)
Provocateur: Trevor Pinch (Cornell) (Text) (Slides)
Discussants:
David Kaiser (MIT) (slides)
Antoine Picon (Harvard GSD)

6:15 :: Undergraduate Poster and Multimedia Session

 

Saturday, April 9: STS CORE, CAREERS, AND FUTURES

Maxwell Dworkin G115, Harvard University

9:00 :: The Core of STS: Where are we? Where are we headed?

Discussants:
Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell) (Slides)
Ulrike Felt (Vienna)
Yuko Fujigaki (Tokyo) (Slides)

10:30 :: Break

 

10:45 :: STS and Careers: Have we come home?

Chair: Ben Hurlbut (ASU)
Discussants:
Jay Aronson (Carnegie Mellon)
Brice Laurent (Ecole des Mines, Paris)
Shobita Parthasarathy (Michigan)
Anne Pollock (Georgia Tech)
Kris Saha (Whitehead Institute, MIT)
Sonja Schmid (Virginia Tech)

12:30 :: Strategizing STS: Brown Bag Lunch

 

2:00 :: New Horizons for STS

Chair: Manjari Mahajan (New School)
Discussants:
John Beatty (UBC)
Stefan Helmreich (MIT)
Myles Jackson (NYU Polytechnic)
Andrew Lakoff (USC)
Clark Miller (ASU)
David Winickoff (Berkeley)

4:00 :: Break

 

4:15 :: Wrap-Up

An Editorial View: Michael Lynch (SSS and Cornell) (Slides)

5:15 :: Adjourn