Sheila Jasanoff

Profiles, Interviews, and Lectures

Profiles in print and online:

• April 2020: Interview with Nawal Arjini during the COVID19 pandemic. The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sheila-jasanoff-interview-coronavirus/
• July 2018: “ST(&)S: Martyn Pickersgill Talks with Sheila Jasanoff.” Engaging Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 4 (2018), https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/226
• July-August 2017: “First Person: Sheila Jasanoff,” American Scientist, https://www.americanscientist.org/article/first-person-sheila-jasanoff
• September 2016: “Sheila Jasanoff: Framing Research with Citizens’ Perspectives.” Interview with EuroScientist. https://www.euroscientist.com/sheila-jasanoff-framing-research-with-citizens-perspectives/
• October 2014: Yves Sciama, “L’entreprise scientifique doit être responsable devant l’humanité,” La Recherche 492:70, http://www.larecherche.fr/savoirs/portrait/entreprise-scientifique-doit-etre-responsable-devant-01-10-2014-188624
• July 2014:  “To be inclusive, you need more voices” – Q&A with Sheila Jasanoff, Future Earth Blog, http://www.futureearth.org/blog/2014-jul-23/be-inclusive-you-need-more-voices-qa-sheila-jasanoff.
• May 2014: Quynh-Nhu Le, “Sheila S. Jasanoff ’64, Professor at Harvard Kennedy School,” Harvard Crimson, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/5/29/sheila-jasanoff-1964-profile/
• February 2014: Willemine Willems, “How to do things with knowledge: An interview with Sheila Jasanoff,” Krisis 2014, Issue 2: 40-46, http://www.krisis.eu/content/2014-2/krisis-2014-2-04-Willems.pdf.
• June 2013: Michael Greenberg and Karen Lowrie, “Sheila Jasanoff: Culture and Diversity in Risk Management,” Risk Analysis 33(7):1179-81.

Video interviews and appearances:

• September 2019: “Can Science Make Sense of Life? Behind the Book with Professor Sheila Jasanoff.”
• June 2019: Interview with Prof. Sheila Jasanoff on The Science and Politics of Glyphosate, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• May 2017: “The Measure of a Fog: Finale.”
• April 2017: Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Interview with Sheila Jasanoff.
• April 2017: Boston March for Science: “Go Fact Yourself“.
• June 2015: Interview on the International Panel on Social Progress.
• October 2012: Interview presented at the opening of the Risk inSight exhibition at EPFL, Switzerland.

Public lectures:

• “Imaginaries for a Resilient and Inclusive New World.” Environment Support Group (ESG) Global Web Talk, 2020.
• “What is Uncertainty, and Why Does it Matter?” Short lecture to ESRC STEPS Centre, 2019.
• “Future-Making as a Mode of Governance.” Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, 2019.
• “Between Two Worlds: Technological Controversy and the Future of Food.” Lecture at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2019.
• “Toward a Post-Modern Constitution: Reason and Representation in the 21st Century.” Keynote address at the Melbourne School of Government, 2018.
• “The Human Imprint: Nature, Time, and Law in the Anthropocene.” Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2018.
• “Ethical Futures: Imagination and Governance in an Unequal World.” C4E Public Lecture at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics, 2017.
• “Traveling with STS, 1978-2016.” Plenary lecture at Cornell’s “Where has STS Traveled?” conference, 2016.
• “Science and Sense-Making.” Lecture to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2016.
• “Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Developing a Science and Technology Studies Perspective.” Panel discussion at the fiftieth-anniversary conference for SPRU at the University of Sussex, 2016.
• “Cosmopolitan Visions: Science and Reason in a World of Difference.” Gifford Lecture at the University of Edinburgh, 2016.
• “The Ethics of Invention.” Lecture at Google, 2016.
• “Subjects of Reason: Goods, Markets, and Imaginaries of the Global Future.” public lecture at LSE, 2016.
• “Knowledge Institutions, Free Expression and Democracy.” Lecture for the Royal Society of Canada at Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2015.
• “Imagined and Invented Worlds: The Three Symmetries of STS.” Keynote lecture at the fifth STS Italia Conference, Milan, 2014.
• Address at the interdisciplinary workshop “Earthly Poison: Arsenic and the Bengal Delta.” Goldsmiths, University of London, 2013.
• “STS, Law, and SDN.” Science and Democracy Network annual meeting, 2012.
• “A Discipline in Spite of Itself: Relativism, Reflexivity, and Resistance in STS.” Oslo conference on Academic Demarcations: Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity, 2011.
• “Scientific Integrity in a Changing Context.” EMBL Forum Science and Society Seminar, 2010.
• “Modest Means:  Paths of Humility in Climate Governance.” Berlin Transmediale, “Deep North,” 2009.

Miscellaneous

• National Academies committee presentation on Research Agenda and Research Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention Strategies that Reflect Sunlight to Cool Earth, 2019.