Legacies of the Asilomar
The three day event, ‘Engineering Life: Regulating Science, Risks, and Society in Europe‘, organised by Luis Campos (Rice University), Francesco Cassata (University of Genoa and Centro Linceo ‘B. Segre’), and Christina Brandt (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) in June was a real intellectual treat.
I was glad to be able to contribute a talk, titled ‘From Self-Governing to the Commoning of Science: The Human Genome Editing Summits and the Challenge for the Asilomar Model’. I came home with about a dozen books added onto my summer reading 🎉 (not all on the Asilomar or related history of course).
The full conference program can be found here: https://rice.app.box.com/s/hki2f7gtbhdjtjz9njcxqbdz97wnd56g
Joy Zhang 