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SciCom10 – Berechtigte Information oder mediale Inszenierung?
Risikokommunikation im Spannungsfeld der Interessen
10.-12. November 2010, TU Wien

Dritte internationale und transdisziplinäre Fachtagung für Wissenschaftskommunikation in
Österreich.

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein, sich am Call for Papers zu beteiligen. Einreichfrist ist der 30.
August 2010.

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LOST Seminar
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Advokatenweg 36, 06114 Halle/Saale
July 7 2010
Im kolloquium der LOST gruppe am MPI in Halle wird Amade M’charek aus Amsterdam am 7.7. um 18.00 ihr Paper „The HeLa Error: On the aeLsthetics of wholeness and the materiality of race“ vorstellen und diskutieren. Interessierte sind herzlich willkommen!
Abstract:
The paper is about the politics and routines of race in genetics. The context of this paper is the omnipresence of research on genetic diversity and the reintroduction of racial categories in the field. The object of this paper is a mundane laboratory technology, a DNA reference sequence. The concern of this paper is the persistent notion that normativity and politics are exclusively articulated by human actors. I here wish to present a case in which these are articulated in technology. Race is therefore part of routines and practices where nothing strange seems to be going on. Race is therefore - by consequence - not merely a matter of deliberation. Race, I will argue, is an absent-present (these are the words of John Law 2002) as an effect of technologies and practices that cannot be left behind.
The DNA reference sequence seems tiny (invisible for the bare eye) and trivial (part of every day routine), yet its history is too big to present in one paper. I will therefore present three short but related stories. Stories that somehow account for this history. I have chosen an art metaphor to present them, namely a triptych.
As we move along the panels of the triptych a story about the absent-presence of race in science will enfold.  I will argue that the desire of geneticists to produce a reference sequence that represents nature as it is, contributes to the naturalization of the sequence and to the back-grounding of race. However, given that the sequence is made somewhere and in a specific time, a minor flaw - present in the end-result - functions as political noise, reminding us of its complex racial history.

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (GWTF e.V.)
am 26. und 27. November 2010 an der TU Berlin

Stefan Böschen, Weert Canzler, Jochen Gläser, Martin Meister, Cornelius Schubert

Die Wirkung der Dinge als Problem empirischer Forschung
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Am Freitag, 18.6.2010, hält Judith Butler in der Volksbühne einen Vortrag unter dem Titel “Queere Bündnisse und Antikriegspolitik”. Beginn ist 21.00 Uhr, Restkarten sind an der Abendkasse erhältlich.

Informationen zum Hintergrund des Vortrags finden sich auf der Webseite der Volksbühne.

In der Reihe “Und jetzt - Richtungen der Zukunft” spricht an diesem Mittwoch (2.6.2010) Arjun Appadurai.
Die Vortragsreihe findet anlässlich der Feierlichkeiten zum 200jährigen Jubiläum der Universität statt,
Prof. Thomas Macho wird moderieren.

Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2010, 19 Uhr, Kinosaal im Hauptgebäude (Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin)

Arjun Appadurai: The Future of Hope: Emerging Global Conditions for Urban Aspirations

We have extended the application deadline.

On our website you find a call for papers for our Summer School “The Globalisation of Innovation – Cooperation in and between Organisations” at the JM-CETRO of the University of Oldenburg (1st till 6th of August 2010).

The call addresses advanced doctoral students who are in the final phase of their PhD or have completed most recently from social sciences, economics, geography and business studies, discussing possibilities and limitations of cross-border exchange and learning processes.

For further information, please, contact: Michael Florian at michael.florian[at]uni-oldenburg.de or visit our website.

The deadline for applications for the 2010 NeuroSchool has been extended until June 7th, 2010. The ENSN Neuroschools are very rewarding experiences and have been given rave reviews from previous attendees.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with lead tutor Giovanni Frazzetto at g.frazzetto[at]lse.ac.uk
or contact the European Neuroscience and Society Network at ensn[at]lse.ac.uk.

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Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 2-3 July 2010

Abstract
Forensic uses of DNA technologies have become crucial elements of
national systems of criminal justice. In addition, as a result of
growing transnational mobility and the global use of information and
communication technologies crime and crime prevention issues are
increasingly addressed by agencies and policy actors beyond the national
state. In the European context, the so-called Prüm regime obliges law
enforcement authorities in all EU countries to render their forensic DNA
databases searchable for other member states by 2011 (at a match/no
match basis). This also means that countries which do not yet have
centralized forensic DNA databases need to establish them by that date.
In sum, the importance of forensic DNA databasing will continue to
increase in the political and public arenas across Europe.

While the legal and criminological implications of forensic and police
uses of DNA analysis and databasing have received ample attention in the
last decade, their societal dimensions have not been systematically
explored. Social science projects in this field are relatively scarce,
and there is virtually no comparative social science research on this
topic across countries. Our workshop aims to fill this gap: Social
scientists who pioneer(ed) work in this field will present their
research projects and engage in a dialogue with an eminent molecular
biologist in Portugal, António Amorim. A concluding round table
discussion will be dedicated to explicating current challenges faced by
social science research in the field of forensic DNA profiling and
datatabasing.

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International Conference of the Research Center Media Upheavals

“Media in action” ist die Abschlusstagung des Forschungskollegs “Medienumbrüche” und zugleich Ausblick auf neue und weite Forschungsfelder. Siegen ist eine mittelgroße, sehr gastfreundliche Universitätsstadt im Süden NRWs.

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Am Freitag, dem dem 7. Mai 2010, 18.30 Uhr findet im Hauptgebäude der
HU, Hörsaal 3075 die Auftaktveranstaltung des neuen
DFG-Nachwuchsforschernetzwerkes “Ökonomien der Reproduktion” statt.

Den Eröffnungsvortrag hält Dr. Nick Hopwood (Cambridge): “Human Embryos 1750 - 2010″

Danach gibt es einen Umtrunk. Alle sind herzliche eingeladen. Hier finden Sie mehr Informationen.

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