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SUMMARY:Science\, Technology\, Economy and Society. Contemporary World and
  its Heritages.
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Professor Dominique Pestre\, EHESS Paris - Invited professor a
 t the College of Humanities\n\nScience and technology are a central develo
 pment in today's world – but some of their consequences are highly debat
 ed as their effects are not always beneficial. These debates are not launc
 hed by irrational activists and raise important questions that societies a
 ttempt to solve.\n\nThe four public lectures that Dominique Pestre - Profe
 ssor at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Paris and in
 vited Professor at the College of Humanities - is giving at EPFL in March 
 2012 will consider the variety of today's sciences\, scientific and econom
 ic changes that happened over the last decades\, the way risks are evaluat
 ed and managed\, the demands of civil society to be part of the solutions 
 – and the way scientists and engineers could answer them.\n\n\nPart III
   -  The Great Transformation\n                 Science\
 , Economy and Society over the Last Thirty Years\n\nWednesday\, March 21\,
  2012   5.30 pm – EPFL\, Room ELA 2\n\n
LOCATION:ELA 2 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=ela2
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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