Science, Technology, Economy and Society. Contemporary World and its Heritages.
Event details
| Date | 21.03.2012 |
| Hour | 17:30 › 19:00 |
| Speaker | Professor Dominique Pestre, EHESS Paris - Invited professor at the College of Humanities |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Science and technology are a central development in today's world – but some of their consequences are highly debated as their effects are not always beneficial. These debates are not launched by irrational activists and raise important questions that societies attempt to solve.
The four public lectures that Dominique Pestre - Professor at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Paris and invited Professor at the College of Humanities - is giving at EPFL in March 2012 will consider the variety of today's sciences, scientific and economic changes that happened over the last decades, the way risks are evaluated and managed, the demands of civil society to be part of the solutions – and the way scientists and engineers could answer them.
Part III - The Great Transformation
Science, Economy and Society over the Last Thirty Years
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 5.30 pm – EPFL, Room ELA 2
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- College of Humanities EPFL
Contact
- Claude Zwicky, CDH EPFL - Vincent Pidoux, ISS UNIL