We cordially invite you to participate in an on-site workshop on “Who Should Govern Technoscience?” with Kyoko Sato, Associate Director of the Stanford Program in Science, Technology & Society.
Who Should Govern Technoscience?
Perspectives and Insights from Science and Technology Studies
The climate crisis, generative AI, Covid-19, nuclear threats… As we know, understanding and addressing these challenges require deep technical expertise. But who should make societal decisions on these challenges that dictate our future? Scientists and engineers, corporations, and political leaders? The talk will highlight a few key insights from science and technology studies (STS), the field that has long grappled with the relationships between science, technology and society, asking such crucial questions as: How should we govern technoscience as democracy? What is the role of the public? What relationships should experts have with the public, politics, and culture?
Kyoko Sato is Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University. Her research examines technoscientific governance in Japan and the United States. She is currently co-editing a collective volume, Living in a Nuclear World: From Fukushima to Hiroshima, an interdisciplinary post-Fukushima reflection on the development of the global nuclear order. She has conducted fieldwork in various areas affected by nuclear technology to examine the dynamics and relationships among global and national nuclear governance, expertise, and democratic citizenship. She is part of Comparative Covid Response, an on-going study on the pandemic response of 16 countries. Her previous work examined interdisciplinary knowledge production in the United States and the politics of genetically modified food in France, Japan, and the United States.
The workshop is organized by Iris Eisenberger at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law and is held this Friday, July 14, 2023, at Besprechungsraum Schenkenstraße. To help us plan, please register for the workshop until Thursday, July 13, 15:00 by sending your registration to office.eisenberger.id@univie.ac.at.
