2022 Program

The 2022 STS Summer School took place July 24-31 at Harvard University.

Sunday, July 24

12:00

18:00

Meet in hotel lobby

18:30

Welcome Dinner (Chang Sho Restaurant)

Monday, July 25

08:30

Breakfast (HUCE)

09:00

Welcome and Introductions

Sheila Jasanoff

09:30

Organization and Expectations

Sam Weiss Evans and Hilton Simmet

10:00

Introduction to STS Analytic Lexicon

J. Benjamin Hurlbut with Hilton Simmet

11:00

Break

11:30

STS in the World I

● STS in a Time of War

Jay Aronson, Matthew Bunn, Michael Dennis, Alex Wellerstein

12:30

Lunch

13:30

STS in the World II

● Gene editing and bioethics

Alberto Aparicio, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, Andy Murray

14:30

Student research topics (Part 1-all participants)

15:30

Coffee break

15:45

Student research topics (Part 2-all participants)

16:45

Meet and greet (all participants)

17:30

Adjourn

18:00

Dinner (HUCE)

Tuesday, July 26

08:30

Breakfast (HUCE)

09:00

Roundtable: Pandemic Expertise and Its Problems

Silke Beck, Ulrike Felt, Brice Laurent, Jack Stilgoe

10:00

Discussion

10:30

Break

11:00

Public Engagement and Technologies of Trust

Stephen Hilgartner, Pierre-Benoît Joly, Shobita Parthasarathy

12:30

Lunch Break

13:30

Trust and Distrust in the Digital Era

Joan Donovan, Sheila Jasanoff, Gili Vidan

15:00

Break

15:30

Governance of Platform Technologies (group exercise)

Margo Boenig-Liptsin

17:00

Adjourn

18:00

Wednesday, July 27

08:30

Breakfast (HUCE)

09:00

Geoengineering Case Study (Constituting Global Publics)

Sheila Jasanoff, Stefan Schäfer, Jack Stilgoe

10:30

Break

11:00

Roundtable: Law, Expertise, and Human Rights

Aziza Ahmed, Leo Saldanha, Leo Specht

12:30

Lunch

13:30

The Credibility of Economic Expertise

Jason Furman, Hilton Simmet, Leo Specht

15:00

Gather downstairs for field trip

15:30

Thursday, July 28 – Saturday, July 30

Science and Democracy Network Meeting (see program)

Saturday, July 30

13:00-15:00

Summer School final wrap-up