past event

Center on Nanotechnology and Society
2nd Annual Nanopolicy Conference
Faces of Risk: Nanopolicy and the Agenda for Safety and Society
November 30, 2007
National Press Club
Washington, D.C.

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Safety of Nanoscale Materials: Risk and Society (PDF)
by Shaun Clancy
Association of Science-Technology Centers Nanopolicy Presentation (PDF)
by Margaret Glass
Risk and Nanotechnology - Who Will Bear The Risk Burden? (PDF)
by Bill Kojola
Feynman, Voltaire and Beckett on Nanotechnology (PDF)
by David Rejeski
Scientists and the Public-Discrepant Views About Nanotech (PDF)
by Dietram Schuefele

Additional Materials from David Rejeski:
Rejeski's project website - www.nanotechproject.org
Rejeski's column at Nanotech Now - www.nanotech-now.com/columns/?column=29

Key addresses by members of Congress from the Center's first annual nanopolicy conference are now published in our comprehensive book on the implications of nanotechnology, NANOSCALE: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE NANO CENTURY (edited by Nigel Cameron and M. Ellen Mitchell, John Wiley, 2007).

The second in our National Press Club conference series is focused specifically on risk, including safety issues and their regulatory implications, potential threats to human dignity and integrity, risk to investors and the business community. We have invited a wide range of expert participants to join us on November 30, and we hope you will join us too. There is no charge for this event.

Speakers included:

• Shaun Clancy of the Evonik Degussa Corporation speaking for the American Chemistry Council;
• David Rejeski of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars;
• Charles Rubin of Duquesne University and frequent contributor to The New Atlantis;
• Jonathan Moreno of University of Pennsylvania and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress;
• Margaret Glass of the National Science Foundation-funded Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net);
• Dietram Schuefele of the University of Wisconsin, Madison;
• Bill Kojola, AFL-CIO;
• Colin McCormick of the House Science Committee professional staff.

This event was co-sponsored by:
The Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies