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Join Paul N. Edwards P’26, Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Stanford University as he discusses technological and scientific change over the 20th century, and how developments of that era have foreclosed possible futures and locked us into deeply destructive modes of existence. Paul N. Edwards is Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Stanford University (where he also co-directs the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative), and Professor of Information and History (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan. He writes and teaches about the history and politics of climate science and climate change. Edwards is the author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) and co-editor of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001), as well as numerous articles and other books. With Janet Vertesi, he co-edits the Infrastructures book series for MIT Press. Edwards recently served as a Lead Author for the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021). A zoom link to participate will be shared with virtual registrants within 24 hours of the event.

Join feminist economists Kimberly Christensen of Sarah Lawrence College, Yana Van Der Meulen Rodgers of Rutgers University, and Mayra Pineda Torres of Georgia Institute of Technology, for a conversation on the economic impact of the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade. Topics to be discussed include the differential impact by race and class, the impact on poverty rates, women's educational attainment, labor force participation, and economic trajectories. A zoom link to participate will be shared with registrants within 24 hours of the event.