Established in 2004, the annual lecture series is a joint undertaking of the Research Department of the Nobel Museum in Stockholm and Science History Publications/USA, a division of Watson Publishing International LLC. Speakers have included John Harley Warner, Avalon Professor of History of Medicine, Yale University; Rosalind Williams, Director, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ulrich Beck, Sociology Department, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich; and Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. The fifth annual lecure was given on April 12th, 2008 by Professor Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University. Her topic was How Do Institutions for Collective Action Evolve?

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