CALL FOR PAPERS
Reprogenetic Encounters: ethnographies and technoscience
This one-day workshop will bring together postgraduate ethnographers of
reprogenetics to present their research and engage with
sub/cross/anti-disciplinary issues surrounding ethnographic methods.
While much work has centred on the ethnographic encounter as a meeting
between
ethnographers and their research subjects, studying reprogenetics involves
attention to different theoretical and ontological configurations resulting
from encounters between new ethnographic subjects, disciplinary techniques
and
research agendas. This involves 'meetings' between varied strategies and
embodied subjects/actors/agents, such as: work with clinicians (and their
own
disciplinary agendas); researching representations of reprogenetics in
popular
culture; and interviewing people on ethically charged topics such as
In-Vitro
Fertilisation (IVF), gamete donation, genetic testing, Preimplantation
Genetic
Diagnosis (PGD) and so forth. These ethnographic encounters may occur in
fleeting situations in clinics, when physicians are 'between patients', and
when patients are pre-or post- a surgical procedure, awaiting results of
genetic or pregnancy tests. What are the methodological concerns in such
situations? What are the methodological innovations necessitated by these
encounters?
Speakers will each present a 30 minute paper reflecting on these issues
drawn
based on such issues from their own research. There will be 15 minute
focused
discussion of each paper and a cumulative 1 hour workshop discussing a wide
range of methodological issues in reprogenetic research. The aim is for a
small
and focused gathering that will facilitate in-depth discussion. While this
workshop is oriented to postgraduate work in progress, interested
researchers
would be welcome to submit abstracts.
Workshop supported by C-SAP; the Centre for learning and teaching Sociology,
Anthropology and Politics (www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk)
DETAILS
Date: Friday 25 October 2002
Location: Lancaster University, UK
Abstract length: 200 words
Abstracts due: August 10, 2002
Abstracts should be submitted to Michal Nahman [log in to unmask]
For further information please contact Ms Nahman or Professor Sarah
Franklin,
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Michal Nahman
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
Lancaster University
Lancaster, UK
LA1 4YL
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