February 14, 2011

Listen: Inaugural Lecture

The new SFU Institute for Values in Policy and Science invites you to their opening event:

“Policy in the Face of Complexity and Deep Uncertainty: Genetically Modified Organisms”
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 7pm

Dr. Sandra Mitchell
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Segal Centre, 555 Hastings Street SFU Harbour Centre Room 1400
Light refreshments at 6:30pm. Please RSVP at www.sfu.ca/reserve

How will genetically modified organisms impact biological diversity? How should we set human policies for global climate? The risks, unknown factors, and complexities challenge the traditional ‘predict and act’ models of policy making. This lecture suggests strategies for managing unknowns and setting reasonable policies.

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Greg Hamilton
February 15, 2011 at 10:04 pm

I really, really wish that these lectures would show up on the net somewhere — as a podcast? I’m surprised SFU would go the trouble to advertise this open lecture event, but then fail to effectively market it to the masses.

Come on SFU — get out of the 1990’s already!

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