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SUMMARY:Angelika Hilbeck - The European discourse about GMOs – Risks\, regulations and the transformation of agro-food systems| GES Colloquium (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES MediaSite | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nThe European discourse about GMOs – Risks\, regulations and the transformation of agro-food systems\nSpeaker: Angelika Hilbeck\, PhD\, Senior Scientist and Lecturer at Institute of Integrative Biology Zürich\, Switzerland\nA European perspective on GMO risk and regulations and the larger contextualization of the GMO debate in Europe in the current public discourse about the transformation of our agro-food systems. \nAbstract\nIn Europe\, the discourse about risks and regulations took right from the beginning in the 1980s a very different course than in the US. The European public across the continent has been and continues to be critical and sceptical about GMOs\, regardless if created with older oder newer genetic engineering tools. Among the core issues of concern have been and continue to be safety and risk issues for the environment and human health. In response\, the developers took a very narrow perspective on risks and safety issues leading to sweeping ‘no risk’ and ‘all safe’ claims for the public\, while the civil society took a broader perspective on risks and safety issues that led to opposite conclusions. Hence\, it was clear from the early days that without proper regulations\, commercialization of GMOs would be near impossible in Europe. Hence\, the design of what constitutes ‘proper’ regulations became the battlefield – not only in Europe but worldwide. \nIn the last decade or more\, however\, the public discourse on GMOs has transcended the narrow pro- or contra technology focus of the 90s and is\, today\, mostly contextualized in the discourse about the necessary transformation of our agro-food systems\, also in light of climate change\, biodiversity collapse\, and other parallel global environmental desasters in the making. Interestingly\, we currently observe a déja-vue with the recent round of debates about new genetic engineering techniques. The GE developers try to pitch the discourse\, again\, in the narrow GE techno-centric pro- or contra framing of the 1990s (with identical narratives) by largely ignoring the wider political context of the public GE discourse. It remains to be seen how this will further evolve in Europe. \nRelated: \n\nHilbeck\, A.\, Meyer\, H.\, Wynne\, B. and E. Millstone. GMO regulations and their interpretation: how EFSA’s guidance on risk assessments of GMOs is bound to fail. Environ Sci Eur 32\, 54 (2020).  doi: 10.1186/s12302-020-00325-6 \nHilbeck\, A\, R. Binimelis\, N. Defarge\, R. Steinbrecher\, D. Sprangers\, A. et. al. 2015. No scientific consensus on GMO safety. Environ Sci Eur 27:4\, doi:10.1186/s12302-014-0034-1\n\nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Angelika Hilbeck holds a Master’s degree in Agricultural Biology from the University of Hohenheim\, Germany\, and a PhD degree in Entomology from North Carolina State University\, USA. Since 30 years\, her research centers around biosafety issues\, regulations and agroecology. Her research and conceptual work includes environmental risk assessment\, ecological biosafety research with genetically modified plants and farmer-participatory agroecology research in eastern and southern Africa. Through her international work with UN\, governmental and non-governmental organisations\, she became increasingly involved in broader issues of technology development towards a democratically legitimated\, sustainable global future and actively contributes to the debate on biosafety\, international agriculture\, hunger and poverty alleviation.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2021-02-02/
LOCATION:Faculty Conference 2312G\, D. H. Hill Jr. Library\, 2 Broughton Drive\, Raleigh\, NC\, 27607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,GES Event
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SUMMARY:Kaiping Chen - How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s Deliberative Poll on agriculture and the environment | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES MediaSite | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nHow deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s Deliberative Poll on agriculture and the environment\nSpeaker: Kaiping Chen\, PhD\, Assistant Professor in Computational Communication at University of Wisconsin-Madison\nWebsite | Twitter @Kaiping_Chen \nPublic deliberation designs for engaging and empowering the views of diverse publics in addressing complex policy issues \nAbstract\nEmpowering ordinary citizens with the capacity to deliberate is a core issue in science communication. Despite growing deliberative practices in developed nations\, it is significantly less understood how public deliberation can happen among populations who live with limited educational resources and poor urban infrastructure in developing countries. This article studied a case of a well-designed deliberation method\, Deliberative Poll\, in Tamale\, Ghana. I analyzed the stimulus information video and thousands of speech acts from deliberation transcripts to examine how expertise was used and what was deliberated in public dialogue. A broad range of expertise and interests were represented. Participants had thoughtful discussions on complex policy issues and their discussion results were considered by local policymakers. This article contributes to our understanding of how to effectively foster public deliberation among populations in the Global South and measure the nuances of expertise and public reasoning on science. \nRelated: \n\nKaiping Chen (2020) How deliberative designs empower citizens’ voices: A case study on Ghana’s deliberative poll on agriculture and the environment. Public Understanding of Science. October 2020. doi:10.1177/0963662520966742\n\nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Kaiping Chen (@Kaiping_Chen) is an assistant professor in computational communication in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an affiliate of the UW-Madison Robert & Jean Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies. Chen’s research employs data science to examine how digital media and technologies affect political accountability to public well-being and how deliberative designs can improve public discourse on controversial and emerging technologies. Chen’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Her works have been published in peer-reviewed journals across disciplines including American Political Science Review\, Public Understanding of Science\, Journal of Science Communication\, International Public Management Journal\, Politics\, Frontiers In Sustainable Cities\, and The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences\, among others.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2021-02-16/
LOCATION:NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,GES Event
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SUMMARY:Adam Kokotovich - Unpacking the values-laden nature of risk assessment: The case of gene drive technology | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES MediaSite | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nUnpacking the values-laden nature of risk assessment: The case of gene drive technology\nSpeaker: Adam Kokotovich\, PhD\, GES Center and FER Postdoc\, NC State\nWebsite \nWhile engagement and risk assessment are frequently discussed separately for gene drive technology\, how do we incorporate engagement into risk assessment itself? \nAbstract\nIn response to advances in gene drive and gene editing technology\, there have been calls for both engagement and risk assessment to inform decision making around these powerful\, complex\, and controversial technologies. While engagement and risk assessment are frequently discussed separately\, what does it mean to incorporate engagement into risk assessment itself? How do we understand the intersection of science and values within risk assessment and what are the implications for engagement? What should we consider when designing engagement for risk assessment? This presentation will explore these questions using the case study of engagement that was conducted to inform the risk assessment of gene drive technology proposed to address the Spotted-wing Drosophila fruit fly. \nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Adam Kokotovich is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at NC State in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources and the Genetic Engineering and Society Center. An interdisciplinary social scientist\, he studies and seeks to improve decision making related to emerging technologies\, invasive species\, and other controversial environmental issues. One of his areas of interest is examining how to enhance risk assessment by using engagement to recognize and reflect upon the consequential values-laden judgments present within risk assessment. He also uses qualitative methods to explore how to navigate different knowledges and worldviews in decision making.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2021-02-23/
LOCATION:NC\, United States
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