Knowledge Society Debates
Roundtable Conference: 5 January 2009
Public Discussion on “Knowledge Society and Uncertain Futures”: 6
January 2009
Venue: CESS, Hyderabad
The debates have been organised by
Esha Shah, STEPS centre, University of Sussex, UK.
in partnership with
E. Haribabu, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Shambu Prasad, Knowledge in Civil Society, Hyderabad
A. Kalamani, Centre for World Solidarity, Hyderabad
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
· Introduction:
by Esha Shah
Session 1: Democracy or technocracy?
Chair: M. V. Sastri
· Public
Science for Public Ends: Rethinking
Democracy in a Technological Age by Sheila Jasanoff.
· Taking
Democracy to the World of Knowledge
by Sunil Sahasrabudhey - Vidya Ashram
· Three
epochs in one: An account of
contemporary India by P.R.K. Rao
· Politics of ethics: Do
ethics committees
represent the civil society? by Mariachiara Tallacchini
· Global
Integration and Local Exclusion in
High-Tech Spaces by C Ramachandraiah
· Discussion
led by Vinod Jairath
Session 2: Whose innovation counts?
Chair: M. V. Sastri
· Innovation as
commercial value: Imagining
knowledge, for what social ends? by Briane Wynne
· Knowledge,
Democracy and Science policy: The
missing dialogue in globalised India by Shambu Prasad
· How do farmers drive
innovation trajectories
of crop biotechnology? By Esha Shah
· Discussion led
by Andy Hall?
Session 3: Risk and uncertainty
Chair: HariBabu
· Science,
Precaution and Participation in
governance of technological risk: from tension to synergy? by Andy
Stirling
· Understanding the
notions of Risk and
Uncertainty: Critical Insights from the Indian Health Sector by
Purendra Prasad
· Anti-discrimination
and appropriate use of
new technologies: Speaking to edifices of International Trade Law by
T.
K. Naveen
· Risks
in dry land agriculture: A note from
AP by E Revathi
Concluding panel
· Concluding
Panel: Shiv Visvanathan, V. Balaji. Pakki Reddy
· E. Haribabu
· Shiv
Vishvanathan, Professor of Sociology of Science and
Technology, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
· V.
Balaji, Head of Knowledge Management and Sharing, ICRISAT,
Hyderabad
· Briane
Wynne, Associate Director of the UK ESRC, Centre for
Economics and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University
· Sheila
Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology
Studies, Harvard University, USA
· G.
Haragopal, former Dean of Social Sciences, University of
Hyderabad
· D.
Balasubramanian, Director of Research, LV Prasad Eye
Institute