Political Civility and Scientific Objectivity: Science, Technology and Public Policy in Democratic Societies

Around the Campuses, Conference

03/01/2012, 05:30pm - 03/03/2012, 12:00pm Location: Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas, UC San Diego Open to: Public, Students Speaker: Conference Organizers: Tal Golan, Associate Professor, History; Nancy Cartwright, Professor, Philosophy; Cathy Gere, Associate Professor, History; Kelly Gates, Associate Professor, Communication; Kalindi Vora, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies

How should democratic societies use, and how have they used, scientific and technical expertise to guide their affairs? What institutions, ideologies, procedures, standards, and expertise have (or should have) been applied in inferring factual decisions in public affairs? The Political Civility and Scientific Objectivity: Science, Technology and Public Policy in Democratic Societies conference will bring together leading researchers from all corners of the academy to explore the potential for interdisciplinary cooperation in studying these questions.

The conference is sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), UCSD Division of Arts & Humanities, UCSD Science Studies Program, UCSD Division of Social Sciences, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS), Office of Graduate Studies, Department of Communication, Department of History, Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Philosophy. Register at: http://iicas.ucsd.edu/conferences/political-civility/registration.html.

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