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SUMMARY:Responsibility and Inequality in a Risky World - Professor Heather
  Douglas\, University of Waterloo
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CONTACT:Jens Steffensen
DESCRIPTION:We live in a world full of emerging risk.  We generate new cap
 acities with the potential to reorder our world and we discover new risks 
 from old practices. What responsibilities come with doing this work? How s
 hould we manage the attendant risks?  I will describe the nature and bound
 aries of responsibility for the new in a risky world\, and I will argue  t
 hat the responsibility to think through the risks that come with our knowl
 edge production can never be fully removed from the experts doing that wor
 k\, even if such responsibility can (and in many cases should) be shared. 
  Further\, the responsibility to work to avoid existential risks should ma
 ke the fight for social justice and against inequality central to decision
 s about how to pursue projects.  I will describe why tackling inequality i
 s required\, particularly as technological capacities increase.
LOCATION:Winstanley L.T.\, Trinity College
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