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</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#17365D"> </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Science, objectivity, and political responsibility in the litigation of two oil spills</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">Stuart Kirsch</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">Tuesday, 18 September 2018</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">2:00 – 4:00 pm</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#C00000">Weston Theatre, JG Crawford Building</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">This presentation examines the role of scientific experts and expertise in legal proceedings. It compares the decisions made by two scientists contributing
to litigation concerning the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989 and petroleum contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon by ChevronTexaco from the mid-1960s through the early 1990s. In the first example, a prominent environmental sociologist was asked to
conduct research intended to reduce the punitive damages award against the oil company. In the second case, a geochemist with expertise on groundwater pollution was implicated in federal racketeering and corruption charges filed against the lawyer representing
the plaintiffs in the case. The presentation draws on court transcripts and ‘life writing’ associated with the two contrasting examples to ask questions about science, objectivity, and political responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">Sponsored by</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">Climate Change Institute</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">Pacific Institute</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">Anthropology Program, CHL/CAP</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Inquiries:
<a href="mailto:matt.tomlinson@anu.edu.au">matt.tomlinson@anu.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Matt Tomlinson<br>
Associate Professor of Anthropology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Links:
<a href="http://anuanthropology.weblogs.anu.edu.au/" id="LPNoLP"><span style="color:#7232AD">ANU Anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/tomlinson-ma" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:#006FC9">My research</span></a> <a href="http://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/MANPS" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:red">MAPS Program</span></a> <a href="http://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/monographs-anthropology" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:#4BA524">ANU Press Monographs in Anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/monographs-anthropology/new-mana" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:#D05C12">New Mana</span></a> <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-monologic-imagination-9780190652814?cc=au&lang=en&" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:black">Monologue</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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