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SUMMARY:Democracy and Distrust after the Pandemic - Professor Sheila Jasan
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CONTACT:Laura Sayer
DESCRIPTION:The 2022 Dr Seng Tee Lee Lecture will be delivered by Professo
 r Shelia Jasanoff\, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studie
 s at Harvard Kennedy School\n\nFriday 11 March 2022\, St John's Divinity S
 chool\, Cambridge\n\n5:30pm-6:45pm followed by drinks and networking\nDoor
 s open at 5pm\n\nTo register\, click here https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/event
 s/s-t-lee-lecture-11-march-2022/signup/ \n\n\nDemocracy and Distrust after
  the Pandemic\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus the streng
 ths and weaknesses of the links between science\, technology and society. 
 Vaccines were widely lauded as scientific miracles\, repaying decades of i
 nvestment in research. At the same time\, virulent opposition to vaccinati
 on in many societies signaled citizens’ unwillingness to trust the exper
 ts and follow the mandates prescribed by public health professionals and p
 olitical leaders.\n\nIn this lecture\, Professor Shelia Jasanoff will situ
 ate the opposition to vaccines\, masks\, and other public health mandates 
 within a framework of constitutional theory that recognises\, and acknowle
 dges\, how political choice has been delegated to experts without adequate
  infrastructures of accountability. She will argue that building better af
 ter the pandemic will require an explicit engagement with the tacit rules 
 of delegation and deliberation that underpin modern democracies. Those rul
 es will need to be revitalised to meet 21st century expectations of sovere
 ignty and citizenship if governments are to retain public confidence in ti
 mes of crisis.\n\nProfessor Jasanoff's work explores the role of science a
 nd technology in the law\, politics\, and policy of modern democracies\, w
 ith particular attention to the nature of public reason. She was founding 
 chair of the Science & Technology Studies Department at Cornell University
  and has held numerous distinguished visiting appointments in the US\, Eur
 ope\, and Japan. Jasanoff served on the Board of Directors of the American
  Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Societ
 y for Social Studies of Science.\n\nAbout S T Lee Public Policy Lectures\n
 \nThe S T Lee Public Policy lectures were established in 2003 thanks to a 
 benefaction from Seng Tee Lee\, Singaporean business executive\, philanthr
 opist and Honarary Fellow of Wolfson College\, Cambridge. Each lecture con
 siders aspects of scientific\, medical or technological research and devel
 opments that are likely to have significant implications for public policy
  over the next decade.
LOCATION:Main Lecture Theatre\, Divinity School\, St John’s College
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