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> Subject: Lancaster Centre for Science Studies Conference 28 and 29th
> August 2006
> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:11:10 -0400
>
> PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS.
>
> Dear all,
>
> The Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster is organising a
> conference:
>
> 'Getting Underneath the Fact: natural categories & biological facts as
> historical and emergent objects'
>
> Date: 28 August - 29 August 2006
>
> To be held at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University.
>
> Confirmed speakers: Geoff Bowker (University of Santa Clara); Simon
> Cohn
> (Goldsmiths); Maureen McNeil (Lancaster University); Rosemary Robbins
> (University of Melbourne); Leigh Starr (University of Santa Clara);
> Lucy
> Suchman (Lancaster University); David Turnbull (Deakin University).
>
> We hope you'll be able to come. See the abstract and the URL below for
> the
>
> - draft programme
> - full abstract of the conference
> - registration form
>
> IMPORTANT: PLEASE RETURN YOUR REGISTRATION FORM BY 7TH JULY 2006 to:
> Ruth Love, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Tel - 44 (0)
> 1524 593148. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> ABSTRACT
> The initial project of science studies, it seems, is becoming ever
> more
> compromised by demands for science studies scholars to learn the
> language and the nominations of science before they can critique.
> This
> is highlighted by the recent Report on Wellcome Trust Biomedical
> Ethics
> Summer School at St Annes College, Oxford on the 26-29 Sep 2005. The
> report suggests that while the debate between scientists and social
> scientists and other humanities scholars may be fruitful the latter
> are:
>
> 'intimidated by the complexity of the science,......This suggests a
> training need: To find ways to familiarise social scientists and
> humanities researchers with neuroscience, and to equip them to liase
> with neuroscientists in a competent manner.'
>
> This conference will be an opportunity to explore how STS research and
> the debates in which we engage are compliant with this vision, relying
> upon assumed foundations of knowledge. In the passage above the
> ontological assumptions of the neuroscientist may be read as fact,
> hence
> not open for debate or contestation. The task for the social
> science/humanities researcher becomes, it seems, someone who adds a
> bit
> of construction after the fact. This conference will provide a
> forum to
> think about assumed foundations in knowledge, their performative
> nature,
> and the way in which debates are framed around biological and natural
> facts. These issues will be explored in different research domains
> including genetics, brain sciences, classifications and number
> systems.
>
> Draft programme, full conference abstract and registration form can be
> found at:
>
> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/events/index.php?unit_id=16
>
>
>
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