Events and News

FALL SEMESTER 2007

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.

Previous Events

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: September 9, 2007