The 2023 STS Summer School will take place August 21-23 at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (26 Oxford Street, Room 440) and August 24-26 the Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School (79 John F. Kennedy Street). Please consult the links above or the official Summer School map for additional help with directions.
Sunday, August 20
12-18
Arrival at Porter Square Hotel
18:00
Meet in hotel lobby
18:30
Dinner at Chang Sho Restaurant
Monday, August 21
08:30
Breakfast
09:00
Welcome & Introductions
Sheila Jasanoff, all participants
09:30
Organization & Expectations
Hilton Simmet
10:00
Learning Session: STS Analytic Lexicon
J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, Hilton Simmet
11:00
Break
11:30
STS in the World I: Editing Genomes
J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, Krishanu Saha
12:30
Lunch
13:30
STS in the World II: Expertise & Knowledge in the Pandemic
Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, Sheila Jasanoff, Pierre-Benoît Joly, Onur Özgöde, Søren Riis
14:30
Student Research Projects I
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Student Research Projects II
17:00
Meet & Greet
Student-Faculty Discussions
18:00
Adjourn
18:15
Dinner
Tuesday, August 22
08:30
Breakfast
09:00
Learning Session: STS Methods
Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, Gabriel Dorthe, Makoto Takahashi
10:00
Roundtable: Expert Advice & Credibility
Daniel Barben, Pierre-Benoît Joly, Jonathan Moch, Melanie Smallman
11:00
Break
11:30
Learning Session: Evidence & Truth
Anna Agathangelou, J. Benjamin Hurlbut
12:30
Working Lunch: Questions & Reflections
13:45
Learning Session: AI in Society
Søren Riis, Kasper Schiølin, Melanie Smallman
15:00
Break
15:30
Group Exercise: Governance of AI & Platform Technologies
All participants
17:00
Adjourn
17:30
Refreshments
18:00
Dinner
Wednesday, August 23
08:30
Breakfast
09:00
Roundtable: Trust in Science
Sheila Jasanoff, Pierre-Benoît Joly, Stefan Schäfer
10:30
Break
11:00
Student Research Projects III: Moderated Discussion
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Roundtable: Economic Expertise & Prediction
Başak Kuş, Adam Leeds, Onur Özgöde
15:00
Break
15:30
Shuttle for field trip
16:00
Field trip to MIT Media Lab
17:30
Adjourn
Thursday, August 24 – Saturday, August 26
Saturday, August 26
12:30
Lunch & Final Wrap-up Session
16:00
Farewells & Adjourn
I learned that democracy is an unclear term, multiply understood by different experts, scientists and policy makers. The role for STS scholars in practice isn’t to ‘inform’ practitioners what democracy ‘is’ but instead [to] help facilitate the multiple ways of knowing and values to be taken seriously.
– 2022 Participant
