Past CSPO Events

• February 24, 2016
  Co-sponsored

  EnLIGHTeNING Lunch with Lauren Withycombe Keeler

  Helping cities cope with disruptive technologies: The case of self-driving cars

  Presentation of the opportunities and challenges posed by anticipatory governance and responsible innovation for helping cities plan for, absorb, and direct disruptive technologies within their jurisdictions by exploring the case of self-driving cars.

  Lauren Withycombe Keeler

• February 15, 2016
  CSPO AZ

  Future of Consciousness

  Part 1 of the "Future of X" series presented by the School for the Future of Innovation in Society

  

  Conversation about the futures we want to create

  with Gregg Pascal Zachary, Professor of Practice, School of the Future of Innovation in Society and Gaymon Bennett, Assistant Professor of Religion, Science, and Technology

  Light snacks, refreshments provided
  RSVP online: bit.ly/FutureOfTalks

  Gaymon Bennett, G. Pascal (Gregg) Zachary

• February 12, 2016
  Co-sponsored

  Symposium with Laura Hosman

  Appropriate Technologies and Experiential Learning: Possibilities, Pitfalls & Pivots

  

  This talk will explore some of the issues associated with appropriate technologies, and more specifically, with technology-in-the-schools projects in the developing world.

  Laura Hosman

• January 28, 2016
  Co-sponsored

  Science Fiction TV Dinner: Starships from the 1970s

  with Dave Guston

  

  Join us for a screening and conversation with Dave Guston, founding director of ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and Ben Minteer, Arizona Zoological Society Endowed Chair in the School of Life Sciences.

  David Guston, Ben Minteer

• January 27, 2016
  CSPO enLIGHTeNING Lunch

  EnLIGHTeNING Lunch with Darrin Durant

  How to be quixotically unreflexive: surprising results from climate change politics in Australia

  

  Drawing upon interviews with climate scientists advising government in Australia about climate change, I do not find them to be as cavalier as the quixotically unreflexive thesis would lead us to suspect. Are Aussie’s standing exceptions?

  Darrin Durant

• January 21, 2016
  Co-sponsored, Energy and Society: Communities of Energy in Transition

  Moderate, Temporary, and Responsive Solar Geoengineering

  A presentation by David Keith

  

  David Keith, one of the most prominent researchers advocating for research in this field, will review the science and technology and of solar geoengineering, arguing that systematic management of climate risks requires the capability to implement these technologies.

  David Keith

• January 12, 2016
  Co-sponsored

  Covering Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future

  A conversation with Andy Revkin, Richard Harris & Manjana Milkoreit

  

  Climate change isn’t just a challenge for science and policy — it’s also a challenge for journalists and other writers.

  Light refreshments provided

  Andy Revkin, Manjana Milkoreit, Daniel Sarewitz

• December 09, 2015
  CSPO DC - New Tools for Science Policy

  Reframing the Debate around CRISPR and Genome Editing

  To what extent can or should scientists shape society’s response to new technologies? Do we need new models for responsible governance of biotechnology in the 21^st century?

  Emma Frow