Apocalypse Now?

The Political and Cultural Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Life Science Industries

A Workshop on Agricultural Biotechnology and The Life Sciences / UC Berkeley 4may01

Sponsored by the Institute of International Studies, the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley and IGCC, University of California, San Diego

Location
Institute of International Studies University of California, Berkeley
223 Moses Hall
May 4th-5th, 2001

Contact: Iain Boal g.boal@worldnet.att.net

Apocalypse Now?:  
The Political and Cultural Economy of  Agricultural Biotechnology and the Life Science Industries

A Workshop on Agricultural Biotechnology and The Life Sciences

Institute of International Studies

University of California, Berkeley

223 Moses Hall

May 4^th-5^th, 2001

9.00am   

Introduction:   Iain Boal and Michael Watts

Herbert Gottweis, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria

“The Politics of Life Sciences and Its Critics”

Joyce Tait, Director, Scottish Universities Policy Research and Advice Network (SUPRA), The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

"Evolution of the Life Science Trajectory in European Multinational Agrobiotechnology Companies"

Ignacio Chapela, Environmental Sciences and Policy Management, University of California, Berkeley  

"In place of a nation: research, public institutions and the privatization of Bioteck"

Discussants:   

Richard Walker, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Michael Watts, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley

1.00pm    

Introduction:  Michael Watts

Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norfolk, United Kingdom

"Up on the Roof: Advanced Genetic Sciences (AGS) and the First GM Release"

Les Levidow, Centre for Technology Strategy, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

“Which Sustainability? Policy Dilemmas over GM Crops”

Iain Boal, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

“ The Trials of GM Maize T25 and the ‘Greenpeace 28’ Luddites”

Discussants:    

Julie Guthman, Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Melanie Dupuis, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

 9.00am

Introduction:   Iain Boal

William Boyd, Stanford Law School, Stanford University

“Wonderful Potencies?:   Deep Structure and the Problem of Monopoly in Agricultural Biotechnology”

Richard Perry, Program in Human Ecology, University of California, Irvine

“Trespass of the Terminator Seed: Flows and Enclosures of Informationalized Life”

Kathy McAfee, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz & Yale University

“Economic and Genetic Reductionism in Agro-Biotechnology”

Discussants: 

Margaret FitzSimmons, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Brian Wright, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

1.00pm

 Herbert Gottweis, Joyce Tait et al.