Events

Recent Events

GCK Research Seminar

• Workshop on Ecological Synthesis and Global Policy
  Nov. 16-17, 2007, hosted by CSPO and the Project on Global and Comparative Knowledges.

  Workshop to explore the challenges of bringing ecological knowledge to bear on global policymaking, including challenges of creating effective science-policy interfaces, the role of knowledge and its uptake in policymaking in enhancing sustainability, and the politics of knowledge and its application in emerging institutions of global governance. We will be joined in this workshop by Frances Westley, a member of the Resilience Alliance and Chair of Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo; Holly Gibbs, an expert on deforestation from the University of Wisconsin and an active participant in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change process; and Elisa Graffy, senior policy advisor at the US Geological Survey and coordinator of the US federal effort to create natural resource and sustainability indicators.

   

• Chad Monfreda (ASU School of Life Sciences)
  Monday, September 10, 4:00-5:15 pm
  "Reflections on IMoSEB" - IMoSEB is the International Mechanism on Scientific Expertise for Biodiversity and is currently in the process of facilitating worldwide discussions on the need for an international scientific institution to provide science advice to global leaders on issues of biodiversity loss.
   

• Arthur Mason (ASU School of Justice and Social Inquiry)
  Thursday, September 20, 3:00-4:30 pm
  "Histories of the Future in Liberalized Gas Markets" - This talk explores the role of energy consultants in North America's natural gas pipeline business.
   

• Paul Erickson (Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan)
  Thursday, October 4, 3:00-4:30 pm
  "When Rabbits Became Human (And Humans, Rabbits): Stability, Order, and History in the Study of Populations" - This talk will examine the history of scientific research on populations and its
  implications for how we think today about policy problems like global epidemics and elephant conservation. (Paul will be here Thursday and Friday if you'd like to meet with him.)
   

• Jenny Reardon (Department of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz)
  Friday, November 2, 2:00-3:30 pm (Tentative)
  Indigenous rights and global science projects.
   

• Jay Aronson (Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University)
  Monday, November 26, 4-5:15 pm (Tentative)
  DNA testing and the notion of truth in truth and reconciliation commissions and international legal tribunals.

• May 7, 2007- Shiv Visvanathan
  Shiv Visvanathan is a visiting scholar from the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology in India. He led a discussion on his piece, "The Tribal World and the Imagination of the Future.”  Click here to read Shiv's piece.

  

  
   

• April 26, 2007- Michael Crow
  Michael Crow is the president of ASU, where he is also a professor of Science and Technology Policy. The topic of this discussion was Crow's recent piece, "None Dare Call it Hubris: The Limits to Knowledge." Click here to read Crow's paper.

  

  
   

• February 20, 2007- Brad Allenby
  Professor Allenby is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at ASU. He led a discussion on, "The knowledge requirements of Earth systems management."