PAST EVENT

Risk Society’s Cosmopolitan Moment: Climate change and the opportunity for a new world order

Panel Discussion
Series: Harvard University Center for the Environment
Open to the Public - Tsai Auditorium (Room S-010)
November 12, 2008
5:00-7:00 p.m.

Description:

Panelists

Peter Hall, Government, Harvard University

Michele Lamont, Sociology, Harvard University

Brian Wynne, Lancaster University

Moderated by

Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School

Ulrich Beck Professor of Sociology, University of Munich; British Journal of Sociology Professor, London School of Economics

Beck's hugely influential 1986 work, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, reframed risk as a sociological category, and his concept of "reflexive modernization" fundamentally reshaped both theoretical and policy discussions concerning science and technology. In his lecture, Beck will draw on his recent work on the uncertainties and ambivalence of contemporary cosmopolitan societies to explore global responses to the risks of climate change.

This event is co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.  For more information on Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University, please visit: www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/  

This event is free and open to the public.

Contact:

Lisa Matthews

Events Coordinator

HarvardUniversity Center for the Environment

Contact:

Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: lisa_matthews@harvard.edu
Phone: 617-495-8883