Nano-Dialogue and Future Foods in Asia and the Pacific: Improving Science and Society around the Introduction of Nanotechnology and Nanofoods in Japan and New Zealand
Japan-New Zealand STS Research Workshop, Tokyo, August 2010
The aim of this workshop was to increase international understanding of ‘science and
society’ engagement methods, by providing an opportunity for Japanese and New
Zealand social scientists to share their research on nanotechnology and dialogue.
Full programme details
Abstracts and Bios
List of participants
More Workshop photos (hosted on International Christian University Social Science Research Institute website)
Presentations
NanoTRI and the next agenda of public engagement in nanofood (Assoc. Prof. Naoyuki Mikami, Hokkaido University, Japan)
Discussing nascent technologies: citizens confront nanotechnology in food (Assoc. Prof. Tomiko Yamaguchi, International Christian University, Japan)
Institutionalizing Technology Assessment (TA) in Japan - an exercise on TA on food nanotechnologies (Ms Makiko Matsuo, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Governance issue of food nanotechnologies in Japan - regulatory inaction and (dis)communication for stakeholding (Prof. Masashi Tachikawa, Ibaraki University, Japan)
An indigenous perspective on public engagement in new technologies (Dr Jessica Hutchings, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, New Zealand)
Dialogue, ethnics and emerging technologies (Prof. Andrew moore, Otago University, New Zealand)
Using dialogue to engage stakeholders in decision-making on future nano food technologies - a New Zealand case study (Dr Karen Cronin, Institute of Environmental Science & Research Ltd (ESR), New Zealand)
Outcomes of meeting
In addition to the electronic proceedings published above, there is a proposed special issue of Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, under the theme: Ethical imperatives of dialogue and public engagement for future food technologies: findings from New Zealand and Japan. The special issue is being coordinated by Dr Darryl Macer, UNESCO Bangkok, with special guest editors Dr Tomiko Yamaguchi and Dr Karen Cronin.
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 1 March 2011
For further information contact Dr Darryl Macer.