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DTSTAMP:20130523T082804Z
DTSTART:20091215T103000Z
DTEND:20091215T170000Z
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Joachim Room, Hild and Bede College 
SUMMARY:Workshop - Democracy, citizenship and anticipatory governance of s
 cience and technology
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary science policy has taken a distinct ‘delibe
 rative turn’. Across a range of domains – biotechnology, the l
 ife sciences and nanotechnology to name but a few – recent governmen
 t policy increasingly speaks of the incorporation of public engagement and
  the social sciences into the development of new research programmes. Thus
  while there is debate as to practical implications of new forms of delibe
 rative or participatory governance in science policy – and the exten
 t to which this deliberative rhetoric represents an authentic renewal of d
 emocracy – recent debate is marked by a consensus regarding the anti
 cipatory and deliberative capacity of public engagement.  However, such a 
 consensus also begs many questions – how are forms of public engagem
 ent and deliberation being institutionalised in the governance of science,
  how can deliberative methods ‘anticipate’ potential public co
 ncerns, and will the incorporation of such techniques materially alter the
  direction of technoscientific innovation? More broadly concerns have been
  raised regarding the kinds of democracies being enacted in debates about 
 the direction and purposes of technoscientific advance.   This, the second
  workshop of the ESRC seminar series Critical Public Engagement: Critical 
 Perspectives on Public Engagement in Science and Environmental Risk, will 
 explore these questions. The morning session includes an agenda setting pr
 esentation on the role of public engagement in forms of ‘anticipator
 y governance’, whilst the afternoon sessions include a range of crit
 ical responses and workshop discussions.  Anybody interested in attending 
 should contact Matthew Kearnes or submit an expression of interest form fr
 om the project website http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/esrcsems 
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