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CSPO Events

Rethinking our Writing / Rewriting our Thinking

March 8 / April 13 / May 4, 2010 / 4-6pm

A workshop series designed to help you bring your work to an informed and curious public through books, magazines, blogs and more. Open to all ASU faculty and staff / RSVP required to alexis.valianos@asu.edu
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After Copenhagen: What's Next?

Monday, March 8, 2010 / 12 Noon
ASU Coor Hall, Room 5536 / seating is limited

Bring your lunch and join a discussion two integral U.S. leaders of World Wide Views on Global Warming: Richard Worthington, professor of politics at Pomona College and the U.S. coordinator of World Wide Views and is Principal Investigator for a NSF-funded project to study its processes and outcomes; and Netra Chhetri, assistant professor in ASU's School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and at the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, a primary coordinator of World Wide Views at ASU and is Co-Principal Investigator for a NSF-funded project.
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Consciousness / Science / Reincarnation

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 / 4-6pm / ASU Discovery Hall #350
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An open dialogue with ZaChoeje Rinpoche, Emaho Foundation, and Stuart Hameroff, director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and moderated by Farzad Mahootian, ASU School of Letters & Sciences. Presented by Alternative Imaginations, a CSPO project. Sponsored by CSPO and ASU's Institute for Humanities Research.

Usable Science: A CSTPR-CSPO Briefing Workshop on Science for Decision Making

Monday, April 12, 2010 / 10am - 1pm / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
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Presentations and panel discussion by Science Policy Assessment and Research on Climate (SPARC) project investigators, and luncheon keynote address by former presidential science advisor, John Marburger. Hosted by Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR), University of Colorado, and CSPO. For further information about receiving an invitation, contact Mahmud Farooque in CSPO's D.C. office at mahmud.farooque@asu.edu.

Join us for quick, edifying lunchtime presentations and discussions, held in ASU's COOR Hall, Room 5536 (5th floor). Each enLIGHTeNING lunch will include pizza, a 25-minute presentation, and 20-minute discussion.

Wednesday, February 24, 12 Noon: ICT Policies, the Internet, and Indigenous Politics in the Andes, with Mary Jane C. Parmentier, lecturer in ASU's School of Letters and Sciences and CSPO faculty. (Download PDF)

The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS) will again be hosting a series of public discussions at the Arizona Science Center, 600 E. Washington Street, Phoenix.

Friday, March 19, 2010, 5:30pm: Facts or hype: what is the media telling us about nano and other new technologies?, with Joel Garreau, Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values, ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and former reporter and editor at the Washington Post; and Joe Kullman, media relations officer, ASU's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Friday, April 16, 2010, 5:30pm: Upgrading ourselves: can technology make us better?, with Brad Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics and professor of law, ASU's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering; and Hava Samuelson, professor of history, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism and director of ASU's Center for Jewish Studies.

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