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WORKING GROUP ON EXPERTISE, SCIENCE, AND DEMOCRACY

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How do scientific and technical knowledge and expertise ‘travel’ across the varied sites of politics and civil society? How are relations between science and democracy being reconfigured, and how might they be? The Working Group on Expertise, Science and Democracy is an open forum of faculty and graduate students that seeks to address thesequestions through interdisciplinary conversation, research, graduate training, and public service. Organized around critical issues of science, technology, culture and society, the group also works to bridge divisions among the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.  

Contact: Scott Kirsch, Geography. Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Peter Redfield, Anthropology. Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

 

Spring 2009 Seminar: Technology and Democracy 

Course Announcement

Technology and Democracy Seminar-Syllabus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  EVENTS

 


 

Previous Events, Fall 2006/Spring 2007:

Friday, March 30, 3:30 p.m.

Location: Saunders 220

Matthew Farish, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto

“From Recognition to Regulation: Climate Laboratories and the Nature of War” Co-sponsored with the Department of Geography, UNC.
Click here to view flyer for this event including abstract.



Thursday, March 8, 3:30 p.m.

Location: 118 Hanes Art

Paul Jones, founder of sunsite.unc.edu and director of ibiblio.org

"Participatory Digital Libraries - Past and Futures; the ibiblio trends"


Thursday, February 8, 3:30 p.m.

Location: 118 Hanes Art

Don Nonini, Professor of Anthropology, UNC-CH

“The Intellectual Commons”

View flier, including synopsis for this event.

 

Thursday, November 2, 4:00 p.m.

Location: 207 Dey Hall

Matthew Hull, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill

“American Technologies of Democracy in Post-Colonial Delhi”

 

Co-Sponsored Talks:

 

Friday, Oct. 13! 3:30 p.m.

Location: Saunders 220

David Havlick, Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill and Colket Fellow, Colorado College

"Bombs Away: New Geographies of Military to Wildlife Conversions in the US"

Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography

 

Friday, October 6, 3:30 p.m./coffee at 3:15 p.m.

Hanes Art 116

Patrick Hamlett, Associate Professor of Science, Technology & Society Program, NCSU

“Managing Expertise through Public Deliberations: The NCSU Experience”

View abstract and flier

More information below

 

 

More Information on Oct. 6:

Dr. Hamlett’s visit corresponds with a new concentration area that the ESD group will be taking up this year, building on some of last year’s discussions. The ALTERNATIVES PROJECT of the working group on Expertise, Science, and Democracy seeks to identify and explore alternative configurations of science and democracy, from the actual to the possible, and the conditions which shape, promote, and obstruct their emergence. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Science shops and other models of pro bono science

• Citizens’ consensus councils (or technology forums)

• Participatory research

• Scientists and activism; oppositional science

• The intellectual commons

• Alternatives to what? Assessing the conditions of/for knowledge production

 

Graduate students and advanced undergraduates who are interested in contributing research to the project for course credit in Spring 2007 are urged to contact Scott Kirsch ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Peter Redfield ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

 

 


 

Previous Events, Academic Year 2005-06:

 

Monday, April 17, 3:30 p.m.

308 Alumni Building

David J. Hess, Professor and Chair, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

"Social Movements and the Anthropology of Science"

Flier for this event, including abstract.

 

Tuesday, April 18, Noon-1:30 p.m.

308 Alumni Building

Informal brown bag seminar with David J. Hess.

"Social Movement, STS, and the Politics of Expertise."

 

Friday, January 27. Working group meeting. Dana Powell will be leading a discussion organized around Isabelle Stengner's "Cosmopolitical Proposal."

 

Friday, March 3, 3:30 p.m.

220 Saunders Hall. David Demeritt (Geography, Kings College London) will be presenting a paper titled "Science Studies, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Constructivist Critique."

Flier for this event.

For more information on David Demeritt, go to http://www.kcl.ac.uk/geography/staff/demeritt.html.

 

Saturday, March 4, 2 p.m.

204 Saunders Hall. UNC-King's College London Graduate Research Workshop on Science, Risk, and the Environment, with David Demeritt.

 

Friday, March 31, 3:30 p.m.

220 Saunders Hall.

Jessica Wang (History, UCLA)

"Science, Social Knowledge, and the American State: From the Social Survey to the New Deal"

Event flier including abstract.

 

 

 

 READINGS

Donald M. Nonini, "Reflections on Intellectual Commons" * Social Analysis, Volume 50, Issue 3, Winter 2006, 203216
*Don recommends reading this article if you are short on time. 

Donald M. Nonini, "Moments in the Formation of Intellectual Commons"

 

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