Below is a list of readings that will serve as a resource in your current and future studies of STS. You do not have to read each and every article to participate productively in the Summer School, but a set of required readings, marked with a *, will provide a common base for our discussions. Additional related readings are marked with a +, though these are not necessary to read in preparation for each class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Part I you will find a list of general readings (A.) and daily readings (B.) to guide the discussions. In Part II you will find selected writings by the instructors that are entirely optional, though germane to getting to know your instructors and the sessions they will be teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participants of the 2023 Summer School can access readings here<\/a><\/em> by entering the password<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *(Review) S. Hilgartner, S. Jasanoff and H. Simmet. Core STS Concepts Crib Sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *S. Jasanoff. The Discontents of Truth and Trust in 21st Century America<\/a>. Daedalus<\/em> 151, 4 (2022): 25\u201342.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *S. Hilgartner, J. B. Hurlbut and S. Jasanoff. Was \u2018science\u2019 on the ballot?<\/a> Science<\/em> 371, 6532 (2021): 893-894.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *L. Winner. Do Artifacts Have Politics?<\/a> In The Whale and the Reactor<\/em>, pp. 19-39. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *S. Jasanoff and J. B. Hurlbut. A global observatory for gene editing<\/a>. Nature<\/em> 555, 7697 (2018): 435-437.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Megan Molteni. Setting aside the thorniest issues around CRISPR babies, scientists say embryo-editing research should proceed<\/a>. Stat +<\/em>, March 14, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n +(Browse) Global Observatory webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *S. Jasanoff and S. Hilgartner. A Stress Test for Politics: Insights from the Comparative Covid Response Project (CompCoRe) 2020<\/a>. Verfblog<\/em>, 11 May 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *(Skim) S. Jasanoff, S. Hilgartner, J. B. Hurlbut, O. \u00d6zg\u00f6de, and M. Rayzberg. Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics<\/a>. Interim Report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *A. R. Migone. Trust, but customize: federalism\u2019s impact on the Canadian COVID-19 response<\/a>. Policy and Society <\/em>39, 3 (2020): 382-402.<\/p>\n\n\n\n +J. Cohen. Obtain, but verify<\/a>. Joncohen.org<\/em>, 22 October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n +K. Stewart. How federalism failed Canadian cities during COVID-19<\/a>. Policy Options<\/em>, 6 June 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *W. Cronon. A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative<\/a>. The Journal of American History<\/em> 78, 4 (1992): 1347-1376. <\/p>\n\n\n\n *T. Pinch. Foreword. In H.S. Rogers et al. (eds.) The Routledge handbook of art, science, and technology, studies<\/em>, pp. xxi-xxv. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *J. Favret-Saada. Part I: There must be a subject. In C. Cullen (trans.) Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage<\/em>, pp. 3-28. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n +B. Braun. From critique to experiment? Rethinking political ecology for the anthropocene. In T. Perreault, G. Bridge and J. McCarthy (eds.) The Routledge handbook of political ecology<\/em>, pp. 102-114. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *B. El-Chichakli, J. v. Braun, C. Lang, D. Barben and J. Philp. Policy: Five cornerstones of a global bioeconomy<\/a>. Nature <\/em>535, 7611 (2016): 221\u2013223. <\/p>\n\n\n\n *S. Jasanoff, Judgment under Siege: The Three-Body Problem of Expert Legitimacy<\/a>. In P. Weingart and S. Maasen (eds.) Democratization of Expertise? Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook<\/em>, pp. 209-224. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *P.-B. Joly and A. Kaufmann. Lost in translation? The need for \u2018upstream engagement\u2019 with nanotechnology on trial<\/a>. Science as Culture<\/em> 17, 3 (2008): 225-247.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *J. Moch. COP27: Reflections from a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow<\/a>. AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships Blog, <\/em>6 February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n +IISD. Summary of the 58th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: 13-19 March 2023<\/a>. Earth Negotiations Bulletin<\/em> 2, 819 (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n +SBSTA. Research and systematic observation – Draft conclusions proposed by the Chair<\/a><\/em>. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n +National Research Council. Chapters 1 & 2. In Analysis of Global Change Assessments<\/em>, pp. 12-37.<\/em> Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *D. Quammen. The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin<\/a>. New York Times Magaz<\/em>ine, 25 July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *A. Agathangelou and K.D. Killian. Paved with good intentions: The road of the humanitarian project of DNA identification of the missing in post-conflict Cyprus. In L. Charles and G. Samarasinghe (eds.) Family systems and global humanitarian mental health: Approaches in the field<\/em>, pp. 35-52. New York: Springer, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n +C. Kormann. The Mysterious Case of the Covid-19 Lab-Leak Theory<\/a>. The New Yorker<\/em>, 12 October 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n +A. Agathangelou. Whither Anarchy? Harvesting the \u2018Global\u2019 Bio-tech Body, Indian Markets and Biomedical Technologies. In M. Mayer et al. (eds.), The Global Politics of Science and Technology – Vol. 2, Global Power Shift<\/em>, pp. 179-204. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *M. Smallman. Policies designed for drugs won\u2019t work for AI<\/a>. Nature<\/em> 567, 7746 (2019): 7\u20137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *M. Smallman. Multi Scale Ethics\u2014Why We Need to Consider the Ethics of AI in Healthcare at Different Scales<\/a>. Science and Engineering Ethics<\/em> 28, 6 (2022): 63. <\/p>\n\n\n\n *G. Paltieli. The political imaginary of National AI Strategies<\/a>. AI & Society<\/em> 37, (2022): 1613-1624.<\/p>\n\n\n\n +D. McGrath. Put \u2018public good\u2019 at heart of AI and new tech, Starmer to say<\/a>. Evening Standard<\/em>, 12 June 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *AI Ethical Guidelines Readings Discussion (Groups A \/ B \/ C):<\/p>\n\n\n\n +A. Jobin, M. Ienca and E. Vayena. The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines<\/a>. Nature Machine Intelligence<\/em> 1, 9 (2019): 389-399.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *M. G. Lawrence and S. Sch\u00e4fer. Promises and perils of the Paris Agreement<\/a>. Science<\/em> 364, 6443 (2019): 829-830.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *M. Smallman. Nothing to do with the science\u201d: How an elite sociotechnical imaginary cements policy resistance to public perspectives on science and technology through the machinery of government<\/a>. Social Studies of Science<\/em> 50, 4 (2020): 589-608.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *E. Popp Berman. Thinking like an Economist. In Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy<\/em>, pp. 1-23. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *M. Fourcade, E. Ollion and Y. Algan. The Superiority of Economists<\/a>. Journal of Economic Perspectives<\/em> 29, 1 (2016): 89-114. Read first 7 pages<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *M. Fairbrother. Economic Experts and Neoliberal Policy Changes: A Case Study of North American Free Trade<\/a>. The Sociological Quarterly<\/em> 54, 2 (2013): 198-219. Read first 9 pages<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A. Agathangelou and K. D. Killian. About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence<\/a>. Globalizations<\/em> 18, 6 (2021): 821-838.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A. Agathangelou. On the question of time, racial capitalism and the planetary<\/a>. Globalizations<\/em> 18, 6 (2021): 880-897.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A. Agathangelou. Humanitarian Innovations and Material Returns: Valuation, Bio-Financialization, and Radical Politics<\/a>. Science, Technology and Society<\/em> 22, 1 (2017): 78-101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Bandopadhyay and J. R. Coene. Disaster Risk in the Carceral State. Stanford Environmental Law Journal<\/em> 42, 2 (2023): 171-240.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Bandopadhyay. In the Shadow of Leviathans Seen and Unseen. In All is Well<\/em>, pp. 1-19. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n D. Barben and N. Matzner. Anticipatory Governance of Climate Engineering<\/a>. In H. v. Storch (ed.) Oxford research encyclopedia of climate science<\/em>. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 30 June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n D. Barben. Analyzing acceptance politics: Towards an epistemological shift in the public understanding of science and technology<\/a>. Public Understanding of Science <\/em>19, 3 (2010): 274\u2013292. <\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Boenig-Liptsin. Public Trust in Computing: Analyzing Trust and Digital Technologies with the Constitutionalism Framework<\/a>. Philosophy of Law and General Theory of Law <\/em>(April 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Boenig-Liptsin. Aiming at the Good Life in the Datafied World: A co-productionist framework of ethics<\/a>. Big Data and Society <\/em>(November 2022). <\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Hilgartner. Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution.<\/em> Penguin Randomhouse, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Hilgartner, C. Miller and R. Hagendijk. Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond.<\/em> Routledge, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J. Benjamin Hurlbut. Imperatives of Governance: Human Genome Editing and the Problem of Progress<\/a>. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine<\/em> 63, 1 (2020): 177-194.<\/p>\n\n\n\n J. Benjamin Hurlbut. Laws of Containment: Control without Limits in the New Biology<\/a>. In I. Braverman (ed.) Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment<\/em>. London: Routledge, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Jasanoff. Toward Societal Self-Reflection<\/a>. In Uncertainty<\/em>: Boston Review<\/em> (2022): 9-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Jasanoff. Humility in the Anthropocene<\/a>. Globalizations<\/em> 18, 6 (2021): 839-853.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Jasanoff. Future Imperfect: Science, Technology, and the Imaginations of Modernity. In S. Jasanoff and S-H. Kim (eds.) Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power<\/em>, pp. 1-33. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Jasanoff. Civic epistemology. In Designs on nature: Science and democracy in Europe and the United States<\/em>, pp. 247-271. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Jasanoff. The idiom of co-production. In S. Jasanoff (ed.) States of Knowledge: The Co-production of Science and the Social Order<\/em>, pp. 1-45. New York: Routledge, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n P. B. Joly. Governing Emerging Technologies \u2013 The need to think outside the (black) box<\/a>. In S. Hilgartner, C. Miller and R. Hagendijk (eds.) Science and Democracy: Knowledge as Wealth and Power in the Biosciences and Beyond. <\/em>Routledge, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B. Kus. Disembedded Finance: State, Financialization, and Crisis in the US.<\/em> Oxford: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A. E. Leeds. Dreams in Cybernetic Fugue: Cold War Technoscience, the Intelligentsia, and the Birth of Soviet Mathematical Economics<\/a>. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences<\/em> 46, 5 (2016): 633-668.<\/p>\n\n\n\n O. \u00d6zg\u00f6de. The emergence of systemic risk: The Federal Reserve, bailouts, and monetary government at the limits<\/a>. Socio-Economic Review<\/em> 20, 4 (2021): 2041-2071.<\/p>\n\n\n\n O. \u00d6zg\u00f6de. Institutionalism in Action: Balancing the Substantive Imbalances of ‘the Economy’ through the Veil of Money<\/a>. History of Political Economy<\/em> 52, 2 (2020): 307-339.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S. Sch\u00e4fer. The intervention of climate science. In Baker, Z., T. Law, M. Vardy, and S. Zehr (eds.) Climate, Science, and Society: A Primer<\/em>. London: Routledge, Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI Required (*) & Related (+) Readings<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Monday, August 21<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
STS in the World I: Editing Genomes<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
STS in the World II: Expertise and Knowledge in the Pandemic<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday, August 22<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Learning Session: STS Methods<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Learning Session: Expert Advice and Credibility<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Learning Session: Evidence and Truth<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Learning Session: AI in Society<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Group Exercise: Governance of AI and Platform Technologies<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Wednesday, August 23<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Roundtable: Trust in Science<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Roundtable: Economic Expertise and Prediction<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
II Get to Know Your Instructors<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n