Innledning ved Professor Sheila Jasanoff, fulgt av kommentarer og diskusjon med Professor Achille Mbembe og Professor Zeblon Vilakazi.
Teknologisk utvikling og konsekvensene av denne ser vi overalt rundt oss: Skapende kunstig intelligens, klimaendringer, genmanipulasjon, fornybar energi og tiltakende trusler om bruk av atomvåpen i konfliktsituasjoner.
Professor Sheila Jasanoff åpner med et innlegg med perspektiver på den globaliseringen vi ser i samtiden, og inngår deretter i samtale med Professor Achille Mbembe, moderert av Professor Zeblon Vilakazi.
Se utfyllende detaljer om arrangementet på den engelske arrangementsiden.
Deltakere
Jørgen Magnus Sejersted
Foto: Universitetet i Bergen
Jørgen Magnus Sejersted is professor of Nordic literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. Chair of the Holberg Prize Board (from 2023) and former dean of The faculty of humanities (2017-2021). Sejersted was project leader for Ideologies of Holberg (2012–2016) and Chairman of the Norwegian management group for the web text project Collected works of Ludvig Holberg (2010-2015). Chairman of Norwegian Society of 18th-Century Studies (2014-15). Leader of Universities Norway strategic unit UHR-Humanities (2019-21).
Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. A pioneer in the social sciences, she explores the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and policy of modern democracies. Jasanoff founded and directs the STS Program at Harvard University. She was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2022. Her books include The Fifth Branch (1990), Science at the Bar (1995), Designs on Nature (2005), The Ethics of Invention (2016), and Can Science Make Sense of Life? (2019).
Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe is a Research Professor in History and Politics (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) and the Director of the Innovation Foundation for Democracy at the University of Witwatersrand. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of ten books and his work has been translated into fifteen languages. His latest book is La communauté terrestre (Paris, La Découverte, 2023).
Zeblon Vilakazi
Zeblon Vilakazi is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Witwatersrand. He was instrumental in establishing South Africa’s first experimental high-energy physics research group at CERN, working on the Large Hadron Collider where he was involved in the development of the ALICE detector high level trigger. Vilakazi has fostered international collaborative research, as Director of iThemba LABS (the largest cyclotron facility in the southern hemisphere) where he initiated a flagship rare – isotope beam (RIB) project. In 2019 he played a role in securing a place for African academic partners in the development of practical applications through access to the IBM Quantum Computing network. He has served on various advisory boards including amongst others the IAEA, IUPAP (International Union of Pure & Applied Physics), and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. In May 2022, Professor Zeblon Vilakazi was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
