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FALL SEMESTER 2009

STPP 2009 Fall Lecture Series

Monday, September 21, 2009

“The Politics of Precaution: A Comparison of Consumer and Environmental Regulation in Europe and the United States, 1970 - 2008 ”

David Vogel, Professor of Business Ethics and Political Science
Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley

Commentator: Barry Rabe, Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Co-Sponsors: University of Michigan Risk Science Center, University of Michigan Center for European Studies-European Union Center





STPP Graduate Certificate Program Information Sessions (Application Deadline October 15 )
Information Sessions will introduce prospective students to the STPP Graduate Certificate Program and answer questions about the application process.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

STPP Information Session
Taubman Medical Library, GAP Conference Room # 2955
(located in the lower level of the Taubman Medical Library)
4:00pm - 5:00pm (pizza provided)

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

STPP Information Session
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Classroom 1210
(located @ 735 S. State Street, Weill Hall)
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Application Deadline for the STPP Graduate Certificate Program - October 15
See "GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM" tab on the left menu bar for more information about the application process.

STPP 2009 Fall Lecture Series

Monday, October 26, 2009

“Synthetic Genomics: Options for Governance ”

Michele Garfinkel, Policy Analyst
J. Craig Venter Institute

Commentator: William K. Hall, Adjunct Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Co-Sponsors: University of Michigan Life Sciences and Society Program, and the University of Michigan Center for Ethics in Public Life.

STPP 2009 Fall Lecture Series

Monday, November 9, 2009

"Science and Technology Investments and Policy in the Obama Administration"

Kei Koizumi, Assistant Director for Federal Research and Development, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President

Commentator: Jason Owen-Smith, Associate Professor, Sociology & Organizational Studies, University of Michigan

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Co-Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan College of Engineering.

STPP 2009 Fall Lecture Series

Monday, December 7, 2009

"Bioequivalence: The Regulatory Careers of a Medical Concept "

Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government and Director, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University

Commentator: Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law, University of Michigan

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Co-Sponsors: University of Michigan School of Public Health, University of Michigan Department of Political Science, and the University of Michigan Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program.

WINTER SEMESTER 2009

STPP 2009 Winter Lecture Series

Monday, January 12, 2009

“Nanomaterials:  Science and Policy”

Jennifer Sass
Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council

Commentary by :
Mark Banaszak Holl, Professor of Chemistry & Macromolecular Science & Engineering Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine & Biological Sciences
University of Michigan

Co-Sponsored by the University of Michigan Risk Science Center

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.




STPP 2009 Winter Lecture Series

Monday, February 16, 2009

"Dangerous Excursions : A New Era of DNA Collection and its Implications on Civil Liberties "

Tania Simoncelli
Science Advisor, American Civil Liberties Union

Commentator: Eve Brensike Primus, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Co-Sponsored by the University of Michigan Life Sciences and Society Program

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

FALL SEMESTER 2008

STPP 2008 Fall Lecture Series

Monday, September 22, 2008

"Bangalored! The Making of Asia's Newest World City."

Michael Goldman
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota

Commentary by Jonathan Levine, Professor and Chair of the Urban & Regional Planning Program, University of Michigan Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

Co-Sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

STPP 2008 Fall Lecture Series

Monday, November 17, 2008

"Beyond the Precautionary Principle in Progressive Politics: Toward the Social Regulatin of Genetically Modified Organisms"

Daniel Lee Kleinman
Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Co-Sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

WINTER SEMESTER 2008

STPP 2008 Winter Lecture Series

Monday, January 28, 2008

"The Policy and Politics of Science and Technology on Capitol Hill "

Tind Shepper Ryen
Professional Staff, Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives

Commentator: Richard Hall, Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Co-Sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

STPP 2008 Winter Lecture Series

Monday, March 3, 2008

"Governing Man and Beast: Scientific Knowledge and the Management of Populations "

Paul Erickson
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

Commentator: Carl Simon, Director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and Professor of Mathematics, Economics, and Public Policy, University of Michigan

Co-Sponsored by the University of Michigan Science, Technology, & Society Program

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

STPP 2008 Winter Lecture Series

Monday, March 31, 2008

"Changing Big Systems: Barriers to Innovation in Energy Technology "

Frank Laird
Associate Professor of Technology and Public Policy at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver

Commentator: Andrew Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Associate Professor of Management & Organizations, Associate Professor of Natural Resources & Environment, Associate Director of the Erb Institute, University of Michigan

Co-Sponsored by the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

STPP 2008 Winter Lecture Series

Monday, April 7, 2008

"You Can Argue with the Facts: A Political History of Climate Change "

Naomi Oreskes
Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego

Co-Sponsored by the University of Michigan Science, Technology & Society Program and School of Natural Resources and Environment

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

STPP 2008 Winter Lecture Series

Monday, April 14, 2008

"Science and Technology Policy for Development: Issues from the Global South "

Susan Cozzens
Professor of Public Policy, Director of the Technology Policy and Assessment Center, and Associate Dean for Research fo the Ivan Allen College Georgia Institute of Technology

Commentator: Ted London, Senior Research Fellow, The William Davidson Institute, and Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, University of Michigan

Co-Sponsored by the University of Michigan International Policy Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

FALL SEMESTER 2007

Monday, September 24, 2007

"The Tobacco Pandemic: History, Culture, and Science"

STeMS Colloquium Series

Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Center for the History of Medicine, UM Tobacco Research Network,
School of Public Health, Health Management and Policy

Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Floor, 4:00 to 5:30 PM

1 October 2007

"Standardizing Regenerative Medicine Products: Another Side of Public Policy and Politics"

Linda Hogle
Associate Professor, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Commentary by K. Sue O'Shea, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School

Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Center for Stem Cell Biology

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.




19 October, 2007

Religious Perspectives on Climate Change Conference

Where: Walter and Leonore Annenberg Auditorium, Weill Hall. Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Sponsored by : The Erb Institute; The Ford School of Public Policy; The Association of Religious Counselors; The Program in the Environment; Center for Faith & Scholarship; Lord of Light, Lutheran Campus Ministries; Religious Trust Fund

Venue: Weill Hall, Ford School of Public Policy

Register now: Online Registration
More Information: Conference Homepage

29 October 2007

"The Rise of Innovative China?"

Adam Segal
Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Commentary by Kenneth Lieberthal, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science, William Davidson Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan

Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies and the Department of Political Science

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

2 November, 2007

AAAS fellowship information session

Friday, November 2nd from 12-1:30PM in 1110 Weill, the Betty Ford Classroom

For more information, please see

http://fellowships.aaas.org/

12 November 2007

"All We Lack is The Political Will: Technology and Effectiveness in Human Affairs"

Dan Sarewitz
Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University

Commentary by Paula Lantz, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Co-sponsored by the Department of Health Management and Policy (HMP) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.



10 December 2007

"Transnational Authority in International Technoscientific Collaborations"

Dan Plafcan
Postdoctoral Fellow in Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Commentary by Steven Jackson, Assistant Professor of Information, University of Michigan School of Information

Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Science, Technology & Society Program

4:00-5:30pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

WINTER SEMESTER 2007

12 February 2007

“Aesthetic Democracy: Negotiating Visual Norms for Wind Energy Development”

Roopali Phadke, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Policy & Politics, Macalester College

Monday, 4:00-5:30 pm in the Betty Ford Classroom (1110 Weill Hall) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy12 February 2007.

Commentator: Beth Diamond, School of Natural Resources and the EnvironmentCo-sponsorship: Center for Local, State and Urban Policy (CLOSUP). For more details, contact Paul Erickson at perckson@umich.edu.

16 February 2007

Forum on Health Policy: "Pills, Politics and Public Trust: Ethical Crossroads and the Pharamceutical Industry"

Friday, Noon - 2 p.m. Ford Amphitheater (use main hospital entrance, amphitheater one floor directly above) University Hospital

Expert panel consists of: David Canter (Senior Vice President, Pfizer Global Research and Development; Director, Michigan Labs); Philip Hilts (Author and former science writer for the New York Times); Peter Lurie (Deputy Director, Health Research Group, Public Citizen); Paul Antony (Chief Medical Officer, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America)

Moderated by: Henry Greenspan, UM Residential College, and Duane Kirking, UM College of Pharmacy.

Co-sponsors include: Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan and, at U-M, Ethics in Public Life, LSA Citizenship Theme Year, Office of the Vice President for Communications, Department of Internal Medicine, Program in Society and Medicine, College of Pharmacy, Ford School of Public Policy, Health Policy Students Association, and the School of Public Health.

Contact and information:  visit www.med.umich.edu/forum or contact hgreensp@umich.edu

Monday, 19 February 2007

4:00-5:30pm, Room 1014 Tisch Hall

The End of Methodology
Brian Cantwell Smith, University of Toronto
Co-sponsored by the Computer Science and Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Monday, 5 March 2007

4:00-5:30pm, Room 1014 Tisch Hall

Inclusion and Difference: Gender, Race, and the New Biopolitics of Medical Research
Steven Epstein, University of California, San Diego

Monday, 19 March 2007

4:00-5:30pm, Room 1014 Tisch Hall

STS Distinguished Lecture
Palmer Commons and Atrium
Reformulating the Nature/Nurture Opposition in Scientific Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University
Co-sponsored by ADVANCE, EEB, IRWG, Women's Studies

Monday, 2 April 2007

4:00-5:30pm, Room 1014 Tisch Hall

Book Launch and Lecture
The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940
John Carson, UM Department of History; Director, STS

Monday, 16 April 2007

4:00-5:30pm, Room 1014 Tisch Hall

Book Launch and Lecture
Annenberg Auditorium, Weill Hall
Ford School of Public Policy
Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care
Shobita Parthasarathy, UM Ford School of Public Policy
Co-sponsored by the Ford School of Public Policy

Last Updated: March 30, 2009