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International conference: The
Experimental Society, Lancaster University, 7-9 July 2010
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality
The idea of experimentation was
always at the heart of modernity’s promise of human freedom and
self-determination. But, after the experience of the twentieth century, is the
experiment now too complicit with power to act as a carrier of hope? Or can its
progressive potential be restored through an inquiry into the different forms
that it takes in science, technology, the arts and wider culture? To close the year-long Experimentality
programme, participants at this international conference will debate different
visions of an experimental society in which the emancipatory potential of the
experiment could be renewed.
Keywords:
science / politics / economy /
publics / religion / music / art
education / design / media /
advertising / technology
laboratory / simulating / making /
performing / testing / trial
democracy / reflexivity / creativity
/ event / revolution
Plenary
speakers:
· Ulrich Beck (
· Dieter Daniels (Academy of Visual Arts,
· Bülent Diken (
· Josephine Green (Social Innovation, Philips Design)
· Michael Krätke
(
· Scott
Lash (Goldsmiths,
· John
Milbank (
· Helga
Nowotny (European Research Council)
· Jerome Ravetz (
· James
Wilsdon (Royal Society)
The
conference will include an art exhibition, performances, music and an
audio-visual celebration of the year of Experimentality.
A
provisional conference programme will be available from 24
May.
For
further information and to book a place please go to http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality/event/international-conference-experimental-society
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The early-bird deadline for Non-Lancaster attendees (excluding students) is
21 May **.
If you have a query please contact:
Anne-Marie Mumford
Institute for Advanced
Studies
County South
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 510816
Fax: +44 (0) 1524 510857
‘The Experimental Society’ is being
organised by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) in collaboration with the
ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of
Genomics (Cesagen) and Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
(LICA). It forms part of the 2009-2010 Annual Research Programme of the
IAS, Experimentality, which is directed by Bronislaw
Szerszynski and
co-directed by Stephanie Koerner (
Experimentality is being delivered in
collaboration with the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of
Manchester; the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics,
Lancaster University; FutureEverything; the Centre for the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester; the Max Planck Institute for
the History of Science, Berlin; the AHRC Research Centre for Studies of
Surrealism and its Legacies, University of Manchester; The Centre for Mobilities
Research, Lancaster University; Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster; Lancaster
International Concert Series; Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster; Storey Gallery,
Lancaster; Lancaster Literature Festival; Folly Arts; AND Festival; the Science
and Democracy Network; and the Royal Society.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality