November 4

Friday

Visions of Futures

Geological Lecture Hall
Harvard Museum of Natural History

8:30am

Registration and Coffee

9:00am

Welcome and Acknowledgments

Sheila Jasanoff

Director, Program on Science, Technology & Society

Harvard University

9:30am

Panel 1: Future of Knowledge

Moderator: Karin Knorr Cetina

O. Borchert Distinguished Service Professor

University of Chicago

Craig Calhoun

University Professor of Social Sciences

Arizona State University

Michael Crow

President

Arizona State University

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching

Princeton University

David Oxtoby

President

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Julie Reuben

Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education

Harvard University

11:00am

Break

11:30am

Panel 2: Future of Life

Moderator: Jenny Reardon

Founding Director, Science and Justice Research Center

University of California, Santa Cruz

George Church

Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics

Harvard Medical School

I. Glenn Cohen

James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law

Harvard Law School

George Daley

Dean

Harvard Medical School

Patricia Williams

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities

Northeastern University

Christiane Woopen

Director, Center for Life Ethics

University of Bonn

1:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm

Panel 3: Future of Policy

Moderator: Daniel Schrag

Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology

Harvard University

Marc Aidinoff

Chief of Staff

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Ash Carter

In memoriam
Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Harvard Kennedy School

Rachel Kyte

Dean

Fletcher School

Brice Laurent

Sociologist

Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Paris

Christine Leuenberger

Director, Science and Technology Studies Program

National Science Foundation

Ambuj Sagar

Deputy Director (Strategy & Planning)

Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi

3:30pm

Break

4:00pm

Public Discussion: Charter for Knowledge

4:30pm

Panel 4: Future of Cities

Moderator: Diane Davis

Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism

Harvard University

Bill de Blasio

Former Mayor

New York City

Rafal Dutkiewicz

Former Mayor

Wrocław, Poland

Maarten Hajer

Director, Urban Futures Studio

University of Utrecht

Jason Jackson

Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Political Economy, DUSP

MIT

6:00pm

Closing

Geological Lecture Hall

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford St