Evelyn Fox Keller: Public Lecture and Symposium
2nd - 4th May 2007, University of Leeds.
Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT/Paris) will be visiting the Leeds HPS Division in
the first week of May. There will be three events connected with her visit.
1. Public Lecture: "Systems Biology and the Search for General Laws"
Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building, Wednesday 2nd May
2007, 3.15 to 5.00pm
Professor Keller will give a public lecture on "Systems Biology and the
Search for General Laws"-the subject of a recent commentary by her in
Nature-on Wednesday 2 May. The lecture will take place in the Rupert
Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building, from 3.15 to 5.00pm. This
will be followed by a wine reception.
2. Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Seminar, Leeds HPS Division, Thursday 3rd May,
10am - 12pm
Professor Keller will also be holding a follow-up seminar for postgraduate
students and postdoctoral fellows in the HPS Division the next morning.
This session will be open to postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from
any university. All are welcome and participation is free.
3. Symposium: "Making Sense of Science: Historical and Philosophical Themes
in the Work of Evelyn Fox Keller"
Leeds Humanities Research Institute, Thursday 3rd May-Friday 4th May 2007
This symposium will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to
reflect on two major themes in Professor Keller's recent work. The
symposium will begin on the afternoon of Thursday 3rd May with papers on
"The Public Lives of Gene Talk." The papers on Friday 4th May will be
concerned with "Science at the Physics-Biology Nexus."
Contributors will include:
* Professor Anne Kerr (Sociology, Leeds) on gene talk between lay and
professional worlds * Dr Yan Wong (Biology, Leeds) on gene talk in biology,
including popular biology * Dr Carole McCartney (Law, Leeds) on gene talk
in criminal law * Dr Hyo Yoon Kang (Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science, Berlin) on gene talk in patent law * Dr Alix Cohen (HPS,
Cambridge/Leeds) on Kantian perspectives on mechanism and teleology in
understanding organisms * Dr Kersten Hall (HPS, Leeds) on Schrödinger's
What is Life? * Ms Annie Jamieson (HPS, Leeds) on early X-ray technology
and the physics/biology border * Professor Tom McLeish (Physics, Leeds) on
the recent emergence of the discipline of soft-matter physics * Professor
Steve French (HPS, Leeds) on novelty in physics and biology * Dr Darrell
Rowbottom (Templeton Fellow) on models in physics and biology * Mr Dan
Nicholson (EGENIS, Exeter) on whether there are laws of biology * Dr
Gregory Radick (HPS, Leeds) as discussant on "The Public Lives of Gene
Talk" * Professor Wilson Poon (Physics, Edinburgh) as discussant on
"Science at the Physics-Biology Nexus"
The symposium will be held at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute on
Thursday 3 May, from 1.30 to 5.30pm ("The Public Lives of Gene Talk").
Lunch will be available from 12.30pm -1.30pm. The symposium will continue
on Friday 4 May, from 9:30 to 5:30 ("Science at the Physics-Biology
Nexus").
Symposium Registration costs:
Thursday 3rd May-Friday 4th May 2007 - £25 (includes lunch and coffee on
both days)
Thursday 3rd May only - £ 10 ( includes lunch and coffee)
Friday 4th May only - £ 20 ( includes lunch and coffee)
There will also be a symposium dinner held in the Brotherton Room in
Special Collections, Brotherton Library 6pm - 8pm Thursday 3rd May. Further
details will be circulated to participants.
We may be able to offer limited subsidies to postgraduate students - please
notify organisers of your status when registering.
For further details please contact Fern Elsdon-Baker,
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As numbers are limited please register your interest as soon as possible.
http://www.hps.leeds.ac.uk/ <http://www.hps.leeds.ac.uk/>
Sponsorship Funding for this event has been provided by the Leeds
Department of Philosophy and by Templeton Foundation grants for two
collaborative projects exploring the physics-biology nexus. Partners with
the Leeds HPS Division in these projects are the Department of Philosophy
at Bristol and the physics departments at Leeds, Edinburgh and Surrey.
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