Sheila Jasanoff and Stephen Hilgartner spoke to faculty and students at Sciences Po about international collaboration, the comparative method, and early CompCoRe findings.
Sheila Jasanoff’s “Pathologies of Liberty: Public Health Sovereignty and the Political Subject in the Covid-19 Crisis” appeared in Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies. It analyzes how litigation during the pandemic tested the nature and limits of power in the US public health system.
Stephen Hilgartner joined a panel on “Experts, Publics, and Trust during the Pandemic” as part of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Trust and Mistrust of Science and Experts, organized by Gil Eyal from Columbia’s Sociology Department.
Stephen Hilgartner and Sheila Jasanoff presented early CompCoRe findings to this group of prominent scientists, policy makers, and journalists affiliated with Schmidt Futures. The presentation was well-received.
Sheila Jasanoff spoke on “Ignorance is bliss: Covid-19 and the politics of knowledge” at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute for Arts and Humanities. The lecture highlighted contestations around scientific expertise against the backdrop of political polarization in the United States.