November 5

Saturday

Future of STS

JFK Forum

Harvard Kennedy School

Map

8:15am

Registration and Coffee

8:45am

Making Sense of STS

Moderator: Venky Narayanamurti

Founding Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Harvard University

Doug Elmendorf

Dean

Harvard Kennedy School

Ulrike Felt

Head, Department of Science and Technology Studies

University of Vienna

Ray Jayawardhana

Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Cornell University

Gerhard Müller

Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs

Technical University of Munich

Melissa Nobles

Chancellor

MIT

10:00am

Making Programs

Watch

Moderator: Aishani Aatresh

Undergraduate STS Fellow

Harvard College

Cathryn Carson

Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science

University of California, Berkeley

Pierre Delvenne

Director, Spiral Research Center; Department of Political Science

Université de Liège

Shobita Parthasarathy

Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy program, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

University of Michigan

Sebastian Pfotenhauer

Founding Head, Department of Science, Technology and Society

Technical University of Munich

Jenny Reardon

Founding Director, Science and Justice Research Center

University of California, Santa Cruz

11:15am

Break

11:30am

Making People

Watch

Moderator: Nicole Bassoff

PhD Student, Public Policy

Harvard University

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay

Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

York University

Stephen Hilgartner

Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Science & Technology Studies

Cornell University

Heather Paxson

Program Head, Anthropology

MIT

Krishanu Saha

Associate Professor

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sergio Sismondo

Editor, Social Studies of Science; Professor of Philosophy

Queens University, Canada

12:45pm

Lunch

1:45pm

Making Friends

Watch

Moderator: Pariroo Rattan

PhD Student, Public Policy

Harvard University

Anna Agathangelou

Professor

York University

Aziza Ahmed

Professor

Boston University School of Law

Michael Bravo

Professor of the History and Geography of Science

University of Cambridge

Clark Miller

Associate Director, School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Arizona State University

Mathias Risse

Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy

Harvard Kennedy School

Charis Thompson

Chancellor’s Professor, Divisions of Computing, Data Science and Society, and Social Sciences

University of California, Berkeley

3:00pm

Break

3:15pm

Making Progress

Moderator: Hilton Simmet

PhD Student, Public Policy

Harvard University

Pablo J. Boczkowski

Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor, Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Ulrike Felt

Head, Department of Science and Technology Studies

University of Vienna

Stefan Helmreich

Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology

MIT

J. Benjamin Hurlbut

Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences

Arizona State University

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences

University of Chicago

4:30pm

Adjourn

JFK Forum

Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK St