Effective health promotion depends on good data, good strategy, and a
public that has trust in science. Here is a Toronto conference of
interest - to be held Oct 15-16th, 2007

Posted by: Sam Lanfranco, CLICK4HP co-admin

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Trust in Science, an interdisciplinary workshop, will bring together
leaders in broadcasting, journalism, and museology with scientists
and scholars from the social sciences and humanities who are engaged
in the study of science and technology.

The workshop will be held October 15-16th, 2007 at Toronto’s CBC
Conference Centre. The entrance to the conference centre is located
at 25 John Street. Public lectures by Sheila Jasanoff and Natalie
Jeremijenko will take place during the evenings in the Glenn Gould
Studio.

There is no registration fee for attending the workshop, but you must
register in order to attend. To register for the workshop, please
email Bessie Goldberg at: [log in to unmask]

Include your name, email address, mailing address, phone numbers, and
institutional affiliation. The deadline for registering is September
20th, 2007.  However registration will be limited to the first 75
registrants.

TRUST IN SCIENCE WORKSHOP, OCTOBER 15-16TH, 2007

CBC CONFERENCE CENTRE

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

Monday, October 15th

9:00 Opening the debate on ‘Trust in Science’ Gordon McOuat and Ian
Stewart, King’s College

9:30-10:30 Philip Mirowski, Economics and History and Philosophy of
Science, Notre Dame University, “The Global Restructuring of Science
as a Marketplace of Ideas”
Chair: Gordon McOuat, King’s College

10:30-10:45  Break

10:45-12:45  Clinical Trials and the Pharmaceutical Industry

	Joel Lexchin, School of Health Policy and Management, York
University, “Trust in Pharmaceutical Research”
	Anita Ho, Dept. of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, “Trust
and the Institutional Culture of Medical Science”
	Jill Fisher, Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University,
Clinical Research for Hire: Trust in an Era of Medical Neoliberalism”
	Chair: Sergio Sismondo, Queen’s University

12:45-2:30  Catered Lunch

2:30-4:30  Publicizing Science, and its Effects

	Bruce Lewenstein, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University,
“Science Books in America After World War II”
	Jim Handman, Senior Producer, Quirks and Quarks, CBC, “Why the Media
Can’t Tell their Asteroid from their Ebola”
	Peter Calamai, Ottawa Bureau, Toronto Star, “It All Depends”
	Chair: Kenton Kroker, York University

4:30-5:00  Coffee Break

5:00-6:00  Wes Shrum, Dept. of Sociology, Louisiana State University,
“Corps Trust: How Long is Short Sheeting?”

Tuesday, October 16th

9:00-10:00  Theodore Porter, Dept. of History, UCLA, “”Speaking
Precision to Power:  The Modern Political Role of Social Science”
Chair: Ernst Hamm, York University

10:00-10:30  Break

10:30-12:03  Public Controversies and the Distribution of Expertise

	Alan Richardson, Dept. of Philosophy, University of British Columbia,
“On the Rhetoric of Failure and the Maintenance of Trust: Toward a
Public Understanding of Ignorance in Public Science”
	Jennifer Keelan, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, University of
Toronto, “Constructing a New Objectivity? Democratic Objectivity and
Citizen’s Science in the Debates over the Mercury-Autism Theory”
	Peter Broks, Cultural Studies, University of the West of England,
“Trust Me I’m a Patient: Experiential Expertise as a Way to Open Up
Science-Public Dialogues”
	Chair: Darrin Durant, York University

12:30-2:00  Lunch

2:00-4:00  Who to Trust on Climate Change?

	Maxwell Boykoff, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University,
“Climate Science and Mass Media in the United States and United
Kingdom: Translations, (Mis)trust and its (Dis)contents”
	Mike Goodman, Dept. of Geography, Kings College London, “’Trust Me
I’m a Mega-Star!’” The Changing Politics of Celebrity in Fair Trade
and Climate Change Media”
	Richard Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San
Diego, “A Science Guide for the Climatically Perplexed: Do You Trust
Physicians or Charlatans?”
	Chair: Katherine Anderson, York University

4:00-4:30  Coffee Break

4:30-6:30  Museums and the Public Trust

	Louise Thorn, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and
Medicine, Imperical College London, “Trust on Display: How Can
Scholarship Concerning Trust in Science be Presented to a
Non-Specialist Audience Within a Museum Setting?”
	Randall Brooks,  Canadian Science and Technology Museum, “Trust in
Science—the Museum Advantage”
	Robert Bud, London Science Museum, “The Science Museum and the
History of Science”
Chair: Bernard Lightman, York University

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