A Lecture by
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Founder and Director of the Kennedy School's Program on Science, Technology and Society. Author of The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers (1990); Science at the Bar: Law, Science and Technology in America (1995); and Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States (2005), among numerous other publications.
Chair: Frédéric Vandenberghe, IUPERJ Professor
Moderator: Cristina Fonseca, Deputy Director for research and Teaching, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
Co-sponsored by the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ), the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz da Fiocruz, the Núcleo de Computação Eletrônica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (NCE-UFRJ), Núcleo de Estudos de Ciência & Tecnologia e Sociedade (NECSO) and the Harvard/DRCLAS Brazil Office.
A conferência será em inglês, sem tradução.
See also Professor Jasanoff's talk on "The Politics of Science and Technology Policy: U.S. and European Comparisons", on Monday, August 5, in São Paulo.