[Fis] AAAS Symposium, "Vision, 2033"

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:36:58 -0400
From: "Karin Sypura" <ksypura@aaas.org>
Subject: AAAS S&T Policy Fellowship Programs' 30th Anniversary
        Symposium
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AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Programs' 30th
Anniversary 1973 - 2003

Vision 2033: Linking Science and Policy for Tomorrow's World

September 18 and 19, 2003

http://fellowships.aaas.org/30th/

This 1-1/2 day symposium is the focal point of a celebration marking
the 30th anniversary of the AAAS Science and Technology Policy
Fellowship Programs. The program will feature speakers of stature,
and will focus on future-oriented issues that relate to science and
public policy over the next 30 years. The event will be held at the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, located at the corner of 16th and
P Streets, NW. The Honorable Sam Nunn, Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat
Initiative, will deliver the keynote address, and Representative Rush
Holt (D-NJ) will deliver the concluding remarks. There will be a
reception at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, following the program on September 18.

The Symposium will feature panel discussions on three topics:

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, which will explore the
societal impacts and policy implications of scientific discovery over
the next 30 years, and will focus on topics such as health, genomics,
bioethics, personal privacy and information technology. Speakers
will include:

R. Alta Charo

Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of
Law and Medical Ethics, School of Law and Medicine, University of
Wisconsin

Amitai Etzioni

Founder and Director, The Communitarian Network, The George
Washington University

Bruce Sterling

Author, Distraction (1998), Zeitgeist (2000) and Tomorrow Now:
Envisioning the Next Fifty Years (2002)

Irving Wladawsky Berger

General Manager, E-Business on Demand

IBM

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND GLOBAL SECURITY, which will discuss how
advances in science and technology will impact global security in the
coming decades, and how our evolving expectations of--and definitions
for--individual security will drive the application of these new
discoveries and technologies. The panel will address three topics:
the future of conflict, the future of international relations, and
the global threat of infectious diseases. Speakers will include:

Jessica T. Mathews

President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Maureen I. McCarthy

Acting Director, Office of Research and Development, Science and
Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Joel Primack

Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Kenneth I. Shine

Director, RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security

Frank N. von Hippel

Professor of Public and International Affairs, Program on Science and
Global Security, Princeton University

ENERGY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND GLOBAL CHANGE, which will debate how
science and public policy will evolve over the next 30 years to
reflect emerging energy technologies, environmental impacts, and
global change. Speakers will include:

David Rejeski

Director, Foresight and Governance Project, Wilson Center

Mary Evelyn Tucker

Professor, Department of Religion, Bucknell University

John P. Holdren

Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Programs, Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Gregory A. Benford

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of
California, Irvine

Neal Lane

University Professor and Senior Fellow, Baker Institute for Public
Policy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University

The ADVANCE REGISTRATION fee for the Symposium is $30; on-site
registration will cost $60. Registration forms and updated
programmatic information can be accessed online at
http://fellowships.aaas.org/30th/.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Programs

1200 New York Avenue NW

Washington DC 20005

http://fellowships.aaas.org

Tel: 202/326-6700

Fax: 202/289-4950

Project Coordinator
AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion
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