Past CSPO Events

• October 07, 2011
  CSPO DC - New Tools for Science Policy

  The Challenge of Path Dependency and the Need for Anticipatory Governance

  This presentation will explore how the existence of path dependent processes increases considerably the need for anticipatory governance.

  Jameson M. Wetmore

• January 18, 2011
  CSPO DC

  Eisenhower’s Farewell Address at Fifty

  President Eisenhower’s address is mainly remembered for his warning of the perils of a “military-industrial complex.” Less widely known, but no less important was his caution, a few sentences later, about “the danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” This seminar explored the historical context and current relevance of Eisenhower’s worries about a “scientific-technological elite.” CSPO faculty members and authors Dan Sarewitz and G. Pascal Zachary spoke, along with author and journalist Daniel S. Greenberg and journalist and former science analyst for the GAO William Lanouette. The panel was moderated by Steve Lagerfeld, editor of The Wilson Quarterly.

  Daniel Sarewitz, G. Pascal (Gregg) Zachary, Albert H. Teich, Daniel Greenberg