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
May 4th-5th, 2001
Friday, May 4th
9.00am
Introduction: Iain Boal and Michael Watts
I. Accumulation, Organization, Science: The Political Economy of Agro-Biotechnology
Herbert Gottweis, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria
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
II. Risk, Regulation, Resistance: The Politics of Genetically Modified Crops
Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Les Levidow, Centre for Technology Strategy, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Iain Boal, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Discussants:
Julie Guthman, Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Melanie Dupuis, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Saturday, May 5th
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
Kathy McAfee, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz & Yale University
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.
Sponsored by the Institute of International Studies, the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley and IGCC,
University of California, San Diego
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