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The registration for this upcoming conference closes on Wednesday (22 March). Please consider joining us for what promises to be a fascinating series of talks and discussions.
Biocircularities - Lives, Times and Technologies
31 March & 1 April 2017
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT
Registration for the conference is now open:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26938 <http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26938>
Fees are £50 (full fee) and £25 (student/unwaged). Fees include lunches and teas/coffees. A limited number of student bursaries are available - please indicate your interest by emailing [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Registration will close on Wednesday, 22 March 2017.
Convenors
Branwyn Poleykett (University of Cambridge)
Karen Jent (University of Cambridge)
Summary
While rooted in sociology, the study of the life course – of lives in their orderly, sequential, stepped unfolding – has always attracted the interest of multiple disciplines across the humanities and the social sciences. The methodological assumption that lives are ‘lived forward’, driven by a propulsive forward-momentum, and unfolding in the linearity of successive steps is increasingly thrown into doubt as a consequence of shifting social and economic relations between the generations, technoscientific innovations and the extensive biomedicalisation of the body.
This conference will explore the diverse ways in which technoscientific innovations in epigenetics, bio-banking and regenerative medicine challenge and redefine traditional life course models. New economic, ecological and technological challenges extend the horizon of bioethical choice beyond individual lifetimes, while epigenetic studies of heritability reach back into our own lived biographies and beyond to those of our distant kin. The past, present and the future meet and mingle in individual bodies, capacities and stories, and scientific accounts of ‘slowing down’ ‘banking’ ‘buying’ and ‘reversing’ biological time create new desires, often at the expense of political solutions to poor health and intergenerational justice.
The public keynote address by Professor Ayo Wahlberg (University of Copenhagen) on Exposed biologies and the reproduction problem will take place on 31 March at 5pm.
Full Conference Programme
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26938 <http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26938>
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