Annual Meeting 2017 Videos – Science and Democracy Network

These are videos of presentations and discussion sessions held at the 16th Annual SDN Meeting in Cambridge, MA, June 28-July 1, 2017.

Organizers: Margo Boenig-Liptsin and Sebastian Pfotenhauer

Moderator: Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Technische Universität München

Shobita Parthasarathy, University of Michigan
The Politics of Technology for Development: A View from India towards the World.
Joakim Juhl, Aalborg Univeristy
Copenhagen: From National Capital to Regional Metropolis
Alexander Wentland, Luise Ruge, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Technische Universität München
Of Bits and Pretzels and Bureaucracies: Imaginaries of “Conservative Innovation” in Bavaria
Hilton Simmet, Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University
Beacon of Hope, Lakes of Fire: Imagining the Future in India’s Silicon Valley
Margo Boenig-Liptsin, Harvard University
Living with Innovation: Designing new life on the edge of Boston

Chair: Rob Hagendijk, University of Amsterdam

Erik Aarden, University of Vienna
Engaging Populations for the Public Good in Biomedical Knowledge Production
Flavio D’Abramo, Freie Universität Berlin
Can the Biomedical Enterprise be a Public and Democratic Endeavour? The Case of Biobank Research
Robin Scheffler and Natalie B. Aviles, MIT
Managing Cancer and Cancer Researchers: Organizing Cold War Cancer Vaccine Development at the
National Cancer Institute
Lindsay Smith, University of New Mexico
Necrological Citizenship: DNA Identification, Social Death, and the Politics of Recognition

Chair: Ben Hurlbut, Arizona State University

Melissa Creary, University of Michigan
Biocultural Citizenship and Embodying Exceptionalism: Biopolitics for Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil
Sayantan Saha Roy, University of Chicago
Environmental Jurisprudence in India: How to Do Things with Life
Matthew Sample and Eric Racine, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal
Neuroethics, Democracy, and the “Next Generation” of Bioethical Experts
Basak Saraç-Lesavre and Brice Laurent, Mines ParisTech
Self-assessment and the European Self : The Contentious Harmonization of European Nuclear Safety

Silke Beck, Helmholtz Centre for Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig

S.M. Amadae, University of Helsinki
The Nuclear Leviathan: Revisiting the Nuclear Security Dilemma to Achieve Effective Common Action
Monamie Bhadra, The Ohio State University
Jugaad Style Credibility Contests in Indian Anti-Nuclear Activism
Reiko Hasegawa, Christine Fassert, Maud Devès, Edouard Kaminski, Sciences Po
The Politics of Zoning: Making Risks (In)visible and Manageable in Disaster
Sonja Schmid, Virginia Tech
Collecting Data, Producing Order

Chair: Tim Forsyth, London School of Economics and Political Science

Celine Parotte and Pierre Delvenne, University of LiègeCo-producing Sociotechnical Solutions in Difficult Times: The Art of Governing Nuclear Wastes in France
Zoe Nyssa, Purdue UniversityFailures of Imagination: Long-Term Changes in How We Don’t Think About the Environment
Roopali Phadke, Macalester CollegeStriking the Green Energy Bargain: Responsible Mining in Minnesota
Nina Witjes and Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Munich Center for Technology in Society, TU MunichSeeing the Other, Imaging Thyself? Mutual Imagination in National Space Programs and Security Policiesin India, Japan and South Korea

Chair: David Winickoff, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Stefan Böschen, ITAS/KITEpistemic Regimes: The Case of Regulating Chemicals in the European Union
Tess Doezema, Arizona State University Globalizing Technologies: Geopolitical Innovation in the U.S. Bioeconomy
Ritwick Ghosh, Cornell UniversityMissing the Bureaucrat for the Bureaucracy
Charles de Souza, Virginia TechOn the Ceremonial Uses of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Decision Making

Chair: Shobita Parthasarathy, University of Michigan

Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia and Richard Janda, McGill University (Myko Social Score Project)Responsive Democratic Social Networks
Mascha Gugganig, Munich Center for Technology in Society, TUMReconsidering Education: Civic Epistemologies and Learnscapes Around Land and Agricultural Biotechnology on Kauaʻi
Amit Sheniak, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard STS ProgramThe Spatial Metaphor as a Catalyst to the Development of Cybersecurity Policy
Jack Stilgoe, University College London Seeing Like a Tesla: Machine Learning, Social Learning and Driverless Cars

Chair: Buhm Soon Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Gabriel Dorthe, University of Lausanne & University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Reluctant Futures: A Study of Transhumanism in the Making
Emanuela Gambini, CCLS, Queen Mary-University of London
Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Life. Metaphors and Analogies in the Coproduction of Biotech Intellectual
Property
Pierre-Benoit Joly, LISIS, INRA CNRS UPEM
Change and Continuity in the French Socio-technical Imaginary – The Regime of Techno-scientific
Promises Back in the 50’s
Sang-Hyun Kim, Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Korea
Old Futures: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Imaginaries of Innovation and Development in
South Korea

Organizer: Silke Beck
Moderator: Clark Miller, Arizona State University

David Winickoff, University of California at Berkeley
Responsibility, Governance and Scale: The Design Problem for STS
Gernot Wagner, Harvard University
Guiding Solar Geoengineering Research
Jack Stilgoe, University College London
Climate Engineering or Magical Thinking?
Jane Flegal, University of California at Berkeley
Climate risk management & visions of responsible solar geoengineering research
Silke Beck, Helmholtz Centre for Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig
From neutral to responsible assessment: what role for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a
global “thought collective” for climate science?
Stefan Schaefer, IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Going Beyond Governance: Critique as Intervention