cas: initiative 2000-2001 Defining Values of Research and Technology: The University's Changing Role This initiative will include a year-long series of lectures and a faculty/graduate student seminar in the spring that will focus on the values shaping research policy in a changing academic environment. Topics to be considered include: The challenge of articulating the values that should inform university and public research agendas and the evaluation of publicly funded research results The implications for research agendas of the dramatically changing relationship between research universities and governments (e.g. government funding increasingly bypasses peer review) The implications for research agendas of the dramatically changing relationship between research universities and the increasingly knowledge-based (e.g. information technology, biotechnology, etc.) global economy CAS announces the publication of Defining Values for Research and Technology: The University's Changing Role (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). October 2000 Toby Miller, Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University November 2000 Erich Bloch, Former Director, National Science Foundation February 2001 Donald Langenberg, Chancellor, University of Maryland System; Eminent Physicist; Former Acting Director and Deputy Director, National Science Foundation   Michael K. Hansen, Consumer Policy Institute, Consumers Union March 2001 M. S. Swaminathan, Father of the "Green Revolution" and Winner, World Food Prize Winner   Timothy Reeves, Director General International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City   John H. (Jack) Gibbons, Immediate Past Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Director, U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy   Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Professor, The University of Michigan Law School April 2001 James Savage, Author, Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel   Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology   Kathie L. Olsen, Chief Scientist, NASA   Lord Maghnad Desai, Professor and Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics   Masao Miyoshi, Hajime Mori Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego Co-sponsored by the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology; Center for Advanced Study; College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences; College of Fine and Applied Arts; College of Law; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign; Institute of Government and Public Affairs; International Programs and Studies; Office of the Provost; Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture; National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Coordinated by Professor Philip McConnaughay and Professor Jay Kesan, College of Law. Citizenship, and Commodities October 23, 2000 Monday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Toby Miller Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University audio recording Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. The Changing Nature of Innovation in the United States November 14, 2000 Tuesday, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium, Beckman Institute 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Erich Bloch Former Director, National Science Foundation audio recording Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. University/Corporate Relations and Its Effect on Biotechnology Research January 31, 2001 Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium, College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michael K. Hansen Consumer Policy Institute, Consumers Union audio recording Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. Research Universities in the Third Millennium: Genius With Character February 23, 2001 Friday, 4:00 p.m. General Lounge, Room 210, Illini Union 1401 West Green Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Donald N. Langenberg Chancellor, University of Maryland System, Eminent Physicist; Former Acting Director and Deputy Director, National Science Foundation Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. Science and Sustainable Food Security Global Public Goods for Poor Farmers - Myth or Reality? March 5, 2001 Monday, 7:00 p.m. Auditorium, Smith Memorial Hall 805 S. Mathews, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M. S. Swaminathan Father of the "Green Revolution" and Winner, World Food Prize; UNESCO Cousteau Chair in Ecotechnology, "One of the Most Influential Asians of the 20th Center", Time Magazine Timothy G. Reeves Director General, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City audio recording Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. The University of the 21st Century: Artifact, Sea Anchor, or Pathfinder? March 20, 2001 Tuesday, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium, Beckman Institute 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John H. (Jack) Gibbons Former Director, U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, Immediate Past Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director, U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, President, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. The Public-Private Divide in Genomics March 30, 2001 Friday, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium, College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rebecca Eisenberg Robert & Barbara Luciano Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; Advisory Committee, National Institute of Health audio recording Abstract:  Standard justifications for government funding of academic research have emphasized the lack of incentives to pursue basic research in the private sector. But the relationship between public and private funding for research is shifting. Federal policy since 1980 has promoted patenting the results of government-sponsored research as a means of promoting technology transfer and commercial development. The results of this policy have been particularly striking in biomedical research. In roughly the same time period, despite unprecedented increases in public funding for biomedical research, private funding for biomedical research has surpassed public funding, and the boundaries between research pursued in commercial firms and research pursued in government and academic laboratories have blurred. Media accounts of the "race" to complete the DNA sequence of the human genome have highlighted a competitive dimension to the relationship between publicly-funded and privately-funded research efforts that is at odds with traditional accounts of the need for public funding to compensate for inadequate private incentives to invest in research. The public sponsors of the Human Genome Project have instead stressed the importance of providing public access to research results, an interest that might also be addressed through intellectual property law. What are the proper roles of intellectual property law and public funding in mediating the public-private divide in research science? Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. The Ethical Challenges of the Academic Pork Barrel April 4, 2001 Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium, College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign James Savage Author, Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel; Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia Abstract: Universities and colleges have now benefited from $6.5 billion in earmarked or pork barreled federal research funds. When universities, and particularly their presidents, decide to bypass peer review and pursue earmarked dollars, what ethical choices do they make, and with what consequences for academic science? This lecture examines the practice of academic earmarking, its rapid growth in the last decade, and the ethical challenges it raises for the academic research community. Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. Back to the Future--The Increasing Importance of the States in Setting the Research Agenda April 11, 2001 Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium, College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology audio recording Abstract: After a fifty year period of a global war, our country is readjusting to a global economic competition. During the wartime, the federal government assumed a very strong central role in the initiation of research topics in science and engineering. In the last few years, there seems to be a major movement for the states to have a much stronger voice in choosing research directions. In particular, states and universities are increasingly creating major research programs that focus on needs of the future economy of the state and on the betterment of the quality of life of its citizens. The federal government's role is moving toward supporting long term high-risk innovation and research in universities. I will illustrate this phenomenon by working through two examples that I have been intimately involved in recently: the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and the formation of the new California Institutes for Science and Innovation. I believe that this rising importance of the state role is a revalidation of the original concepts involved in the creation of the Land Grant universities. Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. Federal Science Policy: A Perspective from Inside the Beltway April 16, 2001 Monday, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium, Beckman Institute 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Kathie L. Olsen Chief Scientist, NASA; Former Senior Advisor, National Science Foundation Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. Can Universities Survive the Global Knowledge Revolution? Video Teleconference April 20, 2001 Friday, 10:30 a.m. Room F, College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lord Meghnad Desai Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost. Technology and the Humanities in the 'Global' University April 26, 2001 Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Masao Miyoshi Hajime Mori Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature: Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Modern Japanese Literature; Victorian Literature, University of California, San Diego The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians. New York: New York University Press and London University Press, 1969. Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1975. As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Second edition, New York: Kodansha International, 1994. Japanese trans., Warera mishi mamani. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1984. Postmodernism and Japan (co-edited with H. D. Harootunian). Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1989. Japanese trans., Nihon no posto modan. Tokyo: Seitosha, 1987. Korean trans. Seoul: Vision and Language Publisher, 1997. Off Center: Power and Culture Relations Between Japan and the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. Paperback edition, Harvard University Press, 1994. Japanese trans., Ohu senta. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1996. A special Japan issue, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (editor). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. Japan in the World (co-edited with H. D. Harootunian). Durham/London: Duke Univ. Press, 1993. The Culture of Globalization (co-edited with Fredric Jameson). Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997. "A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation State," Critical Inquiry, 19.4 (Summer 1993): 726-751. Japanese trans., Hihyo kukan, Series II, 1.1 (Spring 1994): 88-112. Korean trans., Changjak-kwa-bipyong, 21.4 (1993): 341-373. German trans., documenta X das Buch, ed. Catherine David (1997): 182-202. "Sites of Resistance in the Global Economy," Boundary 2, 22.1 (Spring 1995): 61-84. Hungarian trans., An Anthology. Budapest: Platon Press, 1997. "Radical Art at documenta X," New Left Review, 228 (March/April 1998): 151-161. EDITOR: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Book Series. Duke University Press. EDITORIAL BOARDS: boundary 2, Duke University Press; Culture and Communication in Asia. Book Series. Routledge, U.K.; Diaspora, Oxford University Press; Manoa, University of Hawaii Press; Muae, Kaya Publications; Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Contention, History Department, UCLA; Hihyo kukan, Seitosha, Tokyo; Japan-U.S. Women's Journal, Stanford and Tokyo; Griot, Heibonsha, Tokyo. Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Center for Advanced Study, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Office of the Provost.