Conference programme

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Programme of the EASST 2006 conference

 

Wednesday 23 August

Thursday 24 August

Friday 25 August

Saturday 26 August

8:30 - 10:15

 

 

Paper presentation 2

Paper presentation 6

Paper presentation 10

10:15 - 10:45

 

 

Break

Break

Break

10:45 - 12:30

 

 

Paper presentation 3

Paper presentation 7

Paper presentation 11

9:30 - 13:45 Welcome      

12:30 - 13:45

 

 

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

13:45 - 15:30

Plenary session : Reviewing Humanness

Opening Presentation: Programme and Organizing Committee

Dominique Pestre (EHESS, Paris)

"Between thick description and normativity : STS,
politics and the discursive order of a globalized
world"

Summary

Michael Hagner (ETH, Zürich)

"From irrational desire to cold technology? A brief history of mind 
reading"

Summary

Chair: Alain Kaufmann (University of Lausanne)

 

Paper presentation 4

Paper presentation 8

Plenary session : Biopolitics, Biocapital and STS

Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard)

"Biopolitics Revisited: Culture and Comparison in STS"

Summary

Nikolas Rose ( London School of Economics)

"The Value of Life: Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital"

Summary

Chair: Martina Merz ( University of Lausanne and EMPA St. Gallen)

 

15:30 - 15:45

 

Break

Break

Break

End of the conference

15:45 - 17:30

Paper presentation 1

 

Paper presentation 5

Paper presentation 9

 

17:45 - 19:30

Plenary session : Re-Thinking Science, Policy and STS in the 21st century: Analytic insights from an outsider within?

Helga Nowotny (European Research Council)

"Parallel Worlds: Research Impact and Policy Outcome. On the relationship between science, policy, and STS"

Summary

Commentator: Christine Hine, EASST president

Organizer: Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH)

 

Plenary session : "Queer/Gender Theory, Science and Arts"

Judith Halberstam ( University of Southern California )

Sarah Franklin (London
School of Economics)

"Queer Science: Transbiological "Facts ""

Summary

Chair: Cynthia Kraus ( University of Lausanne )

Plenary session : Accessing Space and Technology

Stephen Graham ( University of Durham )

"Software-Sorted Technologies: On Space, Technology and Inequality"

Summary

Discussant: Sally Wyatt ( University of Amsterdam )

Summary

Chair: Ola Söderström ( University of Neuchâtel )

 

 

 

20:00-midnight

Welcome apéritif

Special Event and Conference Dinner

Free