{"id":163,"date":"2022-08-29T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/?p=163"},"modified":"2022-10-03T20:21:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:21:24","slug":"prof-funtowicz-to-kick-off-gsej-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/2022\/08\/29\/prof-funtowicz-to-kick-off-gsej-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Funtowicz to Kick Off GSEJ Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor Silvio Funtowicz will open GSEJ&#8217;s seminar series with a renewed examination on science, expertise and decision making on 5 October.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Funtowicz coined the term <a title=\"Post-normal science\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-normal_science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post-normal science<\/a> (PNS), Together with <a title=\"Jerome R. Ravetz\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerome_R._Ravetz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerome R. Ravetz<\/a>\u00a0in the 1990s. His\u00a0article <a href=\"https:\/\/commonplace.knowledgefutures.org\/pub\/6qqfgms5\/release\/1?access=ysble07x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science for the post-normal age <\/a>(1993) is still the most cited paper in its field in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/futures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Futures. <\/a>The paper was recently republished in May 2020 with a new foreword related to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, Professor Funtowics uses the COVID pandemic as an entry point to open up examinations on how a PNS lens can guide\u00a0decision-making and political action\u00a0in the context of persistent extreme inequalities, weak democratic institutions, growing authoritarian temptations, and fantasies of techno-scientific silver bullets.<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to have two experts from our collaborating institutions in Asia who will join as discussants<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Krishna Ravi Srinivas, <\/strong>Senior Fellow, &amp; Consultant, Managing Editor of Asian Biotechnology &amp; Development Review, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), India (Twitter: @KRavisrinivas)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Miao Liao,<\/strong> Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Changsha University of Science and Technology, China. She previously worked at CASTED, a think tank affiliated with China&#8217;s Ministry of Science and Technology for three years.<\/p>\n<p>This cosmopolitan discussion on PNS is free and open to all. It can be registered here: https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/why-science-doesnt-speak-with-one-voice-tickets-407407004317<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Silvio Funtowicz will open GSEJ&#8217;s seminar series with a renewed examination on science, expertise and decision making on 5 October. Professor Funtowicz coined the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/2022\/08\/29\/prof-funtowicz-to-kick-off-gsej-seminar-series\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78017,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}