1-2 December
2011
Institute for the History of Medicine and
Science “López Piñero” <http://www.ihmc.uv-csic.es/>,
The main aim is to present the
research on “Experts in the periphery”. A session was held in the 7th STEP meeting (Galway,
17-19th June 2010) including papers dealing with topics such as how
expert knowledge is appropriated in the periphery, expert credentials, making
standards, perceptions of risk, boundaries between experts and lay people,
sources of trustworthiness, legitimacy and authority of scientific experts,
civic epistemologies and images of experts in popular culture, science and law
in different legal contexts, etc. The papers analyzed a broad range of cases
including engineering (in Spain and Britain), radioactivity (in Austria and
France), microbiology and food analysis (in Belgium and Spain), soil science (in
Russia) and toxicology (in England and Spain). The group includes historians
working on both center and peripheral areas in order to revisit these historical
categories and discuss their usefulness to the study of experts and
expertise.
This second workshop (Valencia, 1-2
December 2011) will include eight papers and two plenary lectures by Ian Burney
(University of Manchester, UK) and Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds, UK). See
program for further details.
POSTER SESSION AND GRANTS
A poster session will be organized in order to allow predoctoral or
postdoctoral students to present their research topic which must be connected to
the workshop.
A limited number of grants will be provided in order to cover
accommodation for three nights. Applicants may apply by sending a CV and a draft
title and abstract by e-mail to [log in to unmask] before November 15, 2011.