The Alan Irwin Lecture: Risks, deficits and post-truths: (dis) agreement in public and academic debate

Location
B63 Law and Social Sciences Building (North Entrance), University Park
Date(s)
Thursday 25th January 2018 (16:45-19:00)
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Alan Irwin Lecture

On risks, deficits and post-truths: (dis)agreement in public and academic debate

On 25 January 2018, the School of Sociology and Social Policy is delighted to host Professor Alan Irwin who will present a talk in Room B63 of the Law and Social Science Building, University Park. The talk will be preceeded by refreshments, served in the Atrium from 4.45pm - all welcome.

This talk will reflect upon some cases of academic and public disagreement in order to consider their implications for contemporary 'knowledge politics'. Do local risk controversies and post-Brexit debates suggest that broad consensus is no longer a desirable – or achievable – goal? And what is the best role for social scientific analysis in this context: to open up or to close down? to seek agreement or to bring forward critique?

Alan Irwin is a Professor in the Department of Organization and Vice-President of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark. His PhD is from the University of Manchester and he has held previous appointments at Manchester, Brunel and Liverpool. 

Alan Irwin has published over a number of years on issues of science and technology policy, scientific governance and science-public relations. His books include: Risk and the Control of Technology (1985), Citizen Science (1995), Sociology and the Environment (2001) and (with Mike Michael) Science, Social Theory and Public Knowledge (2003). He was co-editor (with Brian Wynne) of Misunderstanding Science? (1996). In 2009 Alan Irwin was awarded the David Edge prize for best paper in science and technology studies. He was part of the group which received the John Ziman prize in 2014 for the ESF report Science in Society: caring for our futures in turbulent times (chaired by Ulrike Felt). In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg. 

Refreshments will be served at 4.45pm and the lecture will begin at 5.30pm.

Supported by the Institute for Science and Society.

School of Sociology and Social Policy

Law and Social Sciences building
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

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