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SUMMARY:Insecurity and Innovation: From bugs to borgs - Dr Brett Edwards\,
  University of Bath
DTSTART:20181211T123000Z
DTEND:20181211T143000Z
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CONTACT:Lalitha Sundaram
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how emergent trends in innovation and its g
 overnance are raising new and old questions about how to control technolog
 y- especially on issues related to national security. It develops a new fr
 amework for understanding how emergent fields of science and technology em
 erge as security concerns\; and the key challenges these fields pose from 
 a global security perspective. The study focuses on the politics which hav
 e surrounded the emergent field of Synthetic Biology\, a field which has b
 ecome emblematic of both the potentials and limits of more preemptive appr
 oaches to governance. A key contribution of this work is the development o
 f a new 'way in' to thinking about the challenges posed by emergent techno
 logy and the design of relevant policy from critical and disarmament persp
 ectives.\n\nBio:\nBrett Edwards is a Lecturer in security and public polic
 y working at the intersection of technology\, security and global governan
 ce. His current research examines the security implications of cutting-edg
 e biotechnology\, the governance of biological and chemical weapons\, and 
 humanitarian intervention.\n\n\nA brief commentary on the talk will be pro
 vided by "Sam Weiss Evans":https://evansresearch.org/ \, CRASSH Visiting F
 ellow at CSER\, and Assistant Research Professor in Science\, Technology\,
  and Society at Tufts University.\n\nThis talk is co-organised by "VIRI":h
 ttps://www.synbio.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/viri-cambridge-node\, "CSER":https
 ://www.cser.ac.uk/\, and "CRASSH":http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/ . \n\nWe ho
 pe to see many of you there!
LOCATION: Room SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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