Dear colleagues,
we would like to invite you to our international conference BIOBANK
GOVERNANCE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: STRATEGIES - ETHICS - RESISTANCE
(for more information see
http://www.univie.ac.at/transformation/LSG/event_forthcoming.htm).
In the name of the Life Science Governance Research Platform,
Michaela Mayrhofer
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BIOBANK GOVERNANCE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
STRATEGIES - ETHICS - RESISTANCE
WHEN: Monday, June 19, 2006
WHERE: University of Vienna, Universitätscampus, Aula, Spitalgasse 2,
Hof 1, 1090 Vienna
This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the governance of biobanks.
Biobanks constitute a new challenge for governance, and can themselves
be understood as new forms of governing bodies and populations. Biobanks
are an important element in the new biopolitical order in which
self-guidance through active citizens is as significant as state-led
strategies of population politics, body monitoring, the rise of the new
bio-economy, and the redefinition of citizenship. Biobanks, thus, cannot
be disconnected from considerations of power, resistance, ethics,
politics, and the reshaping of current practices in biomedical
governance. The various presentations at the conference will address
these topics based on empirical case studies. Our main objective will be
to identify emerging patterns of biobank governance, and their
implications for science, society, politics, and culture.
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Ruth Chadwick, Cardiff University
Oonagh Corrigan, University of Plymouth
Mylčne Deschęnes, P3G Consortium
Amy Fletcher, University of Canterbury
Herbert Gottweis, University of Vienna
Michaela Mayrhofer, University of Vienna
Beverley McNamara, University of Western Australia
Gisli Pálsson, University of Iceland
Alan Petersen, University of Plymouth
Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna
Ingrid Schneider,University of Hamburg
Gil Siegal, Haifa University
Tsjalling Swierstra, University of Twente
Richard Tutton, University of Nottingham
Lars Ursin, University of Trondheim
Robert Triendl, Center of Life Science and Society/Tokio
Richard Tutton, University of Nottingham
Catherine Waldby, University of New South Wales
Kurt Zatloukal, Medical University Graz
The conference is organized by the Life Science Governance Research
Platform <http://www.univie.ac.at/transformation/LSG/intro.htm> at the
University of Vienna and supported by the Austrian GEN-AU
<http://www.gen-au.at/aktuell.jsp> Program.
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