The 2021 STS Summer School took place virtually August 2-4 & August 9.
Monday, August 2
09:00
Welcome and Introductions
Sheila Jasanoff
09:30
Organization and Expectations
Sam Weiss Evans and Harvard team
10:00
Introduction to STS Analytic Lexicon
J. Benjamin Hurlbut
11:00
Break
11:30
STS in the World
● Comparative Covid Response
Stephen Hilgartner and Sheila Jasanoff
● Gene editing and bioethics
J. Benjamin Hurlbut and Krishanu Saha
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Scientific Controversies, Science Denial and Anti-Science
Ulrike Felt (moderator), Trevor Pinch, Alan Irwin, Brian Wynne, Matthew Bunn
14:45
Meet and Greet (all students and faculty)
15:30
Student Project Introductions (Certificate Program students only)
16:30
Adjourn
Tuesday, August 3
09:00
Roundtable: STS and Public Trust
Ulrike Felt, Stephen Hilgartner, Pierre-Benoît Joly
10:00
Autonomous Driving and Real-World Experiments
Sheila Jasanoff (moderator), Brice Laurent and Jack Stilgoe
11:00
Break
11:30
Science and Activism I: Publics and Their Problems
Shobita Parthasarathy with Marcy Darnovsky, Jonathan Latham and Leo Saldanha
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Science and Activism II: Risks and Responsibilities
Sheila Jasanoff with Kevin Esvelt, James Collins and Pierre-Benoît Joly
14:30
Break
15:00
Breakout Discussion Sessions (Certificate Program students only)
16:00
Adjourn
Wednesday, August 4
09:00
Roundtable: Law, Expertise and Social Justice
David Kennedy (moderator), Aziza Ahmed, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, David Winickoff
10:30
Break
11:00
Just and Sustainable Energy Transitions
Margo Boenig-Liptsin (moderator), Clark Miller and Sebastian Pfotenhauer
12:00
Break
12:15
“Lab Leak” Case Study
J. Benjamin Hurlbut with Alina Chan, Nicholson Baker, Andrew Lakoff, Antonio Regalado, Kathleen Vogel
13:30
Final Remarks
13:45
Break
14:30
STS Methods Discussion (Certificate students only)
15:30
Summer School adjourns
Monday, August 9
08:30-10:30
Certificate student presentations
11:00-13:00
Certificate student presentations
13:30-16:00
Certificate student presentations
We have to ask better questions in order to understand the current regimes of truth: but not in binary terms of true-false, expert-lay, scientists-citizens. We should analyze the rationalities by which society produces facts and make decisions based in those facts, and the epistemic values behind those dynamics. I think we have to focus in the birth of new varieties of experts, new ways of assessing facts, new ways of defining risks.
Mariana, 2019 Participant
