SCHEDULE
November 3, 2016
Opening
| 5:00-5:15 p.m. | Welcome Address, Anna M. Agathangelou |
| 5:15-5:30 p.m. | Dean Ananya Mukherjee-Reed Welcoming Comments and introduction of Professor Jasanoff |
| 5:30-7:00 p.m. | “Modern Metamorphoses: Bodies and Subjects in Cosmopolitan Space” Opening Plenary Speaker Sheila Jasanoff Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies Director, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard Kennedy School |
| Reception: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. |
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November 4, 2016
South Ross 802
| 8.00 – 8:30 a.m. | Coffee and Pastries |
| 8:30-9:15 a.m. | Professor Sachdev Sidhu, The Donnelly Center, University of Toronto “Synthetic Protein Therapeutics and Global Society” Chair: Kean Birch |
| 9:15-9:30 a.m. | Coffee |
| 9:30- 10:30 a.m. | Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Department of Anthropology, Chicago University “Trans-science: The (Dis)contents of Global Biomedical Collaboration” Chair: Ben Hurlbut |
| 10:30-11:15 a.m. | Fazila Seker, Director MaRS Innovation “The 5 Essential Viewpoints Behind Every Medical Innovation”Kean Birch, Associate Professor, Social Science, York University “From Entrepreneurship to Rentiership in the Bio-Economy”Jessica Kolopenuk, University of Victoria “Gone Girls?: Genetic (Re)articulations of Female Indigeneity through Canada’s DNA-Based Missing Persons Index” |
| 11:15 -11:45 a.m. | Chair: Cameron Murray Discussants: Elizabeth Abergel and Kelly Fritsch |
| 11:45 -12:30 p.m. | Ronni Alexander, Professor, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies Kobe University “Re-mapping the Everyday: The Impact of Decontamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster”Elizabeth Abergel, Sociology Department and Institut des sciences de l’environnement, UQAM “The Bio-objectification of Seeds: Gene Grabbing as a new mode of Governance”Deboleena Roy, Associate Professor, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Associate Faculty, Emory University “Germline Ruptures: Methyl Isocyanate Gas and Transpositions of Life, Death, and Matter in Bhopal”Varun Bhatta, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science “Uncertainties of Technology: Perspectives from the Case Study of BT Products” |
| 12:30-1:00 p.m. | Chair: Jobin M. Kanjirakkat Discussants: Prasad Amit and Kaushik Sundar Rajan |
| 1:00-2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 p.m. | Cameron Murray, Ph.D. Candidate, STS, York University “Necessities and Impossibilities: Engaging the Deliberative Possibilities of Translational Medicine”Erik Aarden, University of Vienna “Beacons for the World? An Exploration of Population Health Research Projects and their Global Imaginaries”Amit Prasad, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director, South Asian Studies Program, University of Missouri-Columbia “Evocative Experimental Subjects: Clinical Labor, Cultural Imaginaries, and Overseas Stem Cell Therapy” |
| 3:00-3:30 p.m. | Chair: Kelly Fritsch Discussants: Arun Bala and Jenny Reardon |
| 3:30-3:45 p.m. | Coffee/Tea |
| 3:45-5:15 p.m. | Sundar Sarukkai Plenary Talk National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science Biotechnology: Between Translatability and Performativity |
Ethics of Innovation and Cosmopolitanism
November 5, 2016
South Ross 802
| 8.00 – 8:30 a.m. | Coffee/Tea |
| 8:30-10:00 a.m. | Honoring Professor Jasanoff and her Contributions to STS and Global Politics: Ethics of Innovation, Constitutionalism, and Cosmopolitan Worlds
Chair: Siba Grovogui Commentary: Professor Sheila Jasanoff |
| 10:00-10:15 a.m. | Coffee/Tea |
| 10:15- 11:00 a.m. | Peter Chow GeNA lab Director and Professor School of Communication, Fraser University Plenary: “What Should We Do with Big Data?”Chair: Robert Latham |
| 11:00-12:30 p.m. | Burak Erkut, Faculty of Economics and Business, Dresden University of Technology, Germany “From Markets to Market Shaping”Kelly Fritsch, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto “Crippling Biocapitalism and the Future of Enhancement”Trudo Lemmens, Professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and PolicyFaculty of Law, University of Toronto “Ethical, Legal and Policy Challenges of Niche Markets and Pharmacogenomic Drug Development”Stephen Hilgartner, Department of Science & Technology Studies Cornell University “’Breaking the Rules’ in the Bioeconomy” |
| 12:30-1:00 p.m. | Chair: Ronni Alexander Discussants: Venilla Rajaguru, Dept. of Science & Technology Studies, York University Robert Latham, Department of Political Science, York University |
| 1:00-2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 p.m. | Ben Hurlbut, Associate Professor, Arizona State University “The Mined Body Problem: Ethical Efficiency and the Production of Value in Biomedical Research”Robert Latham, Associate Professor, York University “The Left and Biotechnology: Toward a Politics of Extrication”Siba Grovogui, Professor Cornell University, Title in developmentJenny Reardon, Professor and Director, Science and Justice Research Center, University of Santa Cruz, “Life on Third: Blood for Oil, Justice for Ethics” |
| 3:00-3:30 p.m. | Chair: Kira McCutcheon Discussants: Sundar Sarukkai, Gordon McOuat, Aryn Martin |
| 3:30-4:15 p.m. | Final Roundtable: Next Steps and Articulating a New Research Program on Value, Translation, and Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Robert Latham |
| 3:45-5:15 p.m. | Professor Jasanoff Concluding Commentary |
