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Activities

May 30, 2012 - May 31, 2012
University of Copenhagen, CSS
Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies (DASTS) annual conference, 2012
Link to conference site

Monday, 12 Marts 2012.
Professor Eviatar Zerubavel, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.
CSS Room 7.0.40, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen K

Professor Zerubavel's has analysed categorising in numerous ways and his extensive scholarship include the publications Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology (Harvard University Press, 1999); Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Zerubavel E. Lumping and splitting: Notes on social classification, Sociological Forum 1996;11/3:42133 and forthcoming in the autumn of 2011 is: Ancestors and Relatives Genealogy, Identity, and Community. (Oxford University Press).

Friday, February 10th, 10-12,
Room 5.2.46 at Center for Sundhed og Samfund, CSS.

Public lecture at Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies: "Care at a distance: technology confronts older people" Maggie Mort, Dept of Sociology & Division of Medicine,Lancaster University, UK

Abstract: Technological ‘solutions' to the ‘problem' of ageing are proliferating, along with policy developments concerning ‘ageing in place'. ICT based care technologies aimed to support ageing in place include telecare packages using a combination of active and passive systems and sensors installed around the older person's home. But how does care at a distance (telecare) get implemented/acted on in encounters with older people living at home? How does the work of assessing for, installing, and running a telecare service get accomplished in practice? Drawing on observational fieldwork such as shadowing social workers on home visits, observing policy/practice meetings, interviews and group discussions with practitioners, the asymmetrical relationship between the telecare ‘solution' and lived realities encountered in the field are explored. This is considered in the light of contemporary debates in Science and Technology Studies around ‘shared work' and ontological choreography. The presentation draws on research for the EC FP7 Science in Society Programme project EFORTT - Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for older people at home.


PhD Course November 28 to December 2 2011
Introduction to Medical Science and Technology Studies: Networks, Practice and Embodiment
Faculty

Jan Kyrre Friis, Annegrete Juul & Henriette Langstrup, Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, Department of Public Health, KU and guest faculty Evan Selinger, Rochester Institute of Technology, Tiago Moreira, Durham University, and Casper Bruun Jensen, IT University Copenhagen. Aim of the courseThe course presents students to a selection of theoretical and analytical approaches within medical science and technology studies (STS). The course will illustrate and discuss how these STS-inspired approaches can be helpful in empirically investigating issues of knowledge, technology, organization, identity and politics related to medical practices.

2-day Seminar 29 & 30 September 2011
Title: The Sensuous Object
Organizers: Lucy Lyons and Anette Stenslund PhD student, Medical Museion
Where: Medical Musieon

Outline: A participatory seminar concerning ways in which we encounter and understand objects beyond the material, through our senses. Based on encounters with objects from the Medical Museion speakers are invited to present their understanding of an object in terms of their methodological approaches and areas of research. Research areas of confirmed participants include: senses of smell and touch, atmosphere, aesthetic, visual thinking, tacit knowledge, sound and seduction. This seminar aims to provide opportunity for presenters to test ideas; try out new formats of presentation and discussion; and examine their own research through the sensuous object. Students from the Materiality and aesthetics of medical science and technology PhD course will also present at this seminar.
Email lucyly@sund.ku.dk if you would like further information

PhD Course 19 - 30 September 2011
Materiality and aesthetics of medical science and technology
Organiser: Lucy Lyons Postdoctoral Fellow CEHA, Medical Museion.
Where: Medical Musieon

Outline: An interdisciplinary introduction to theoretical and practical investigative methods for engaging with the materiality and aesthetics of objects from medical science and technology. Students will explore descriptive methodologies that allow development of subjective interpretation from philosophical, historical, political and artistic contexts and evidence ways information can be gained through tacit and experiential practices. They will participate in lectures, engage in practical workshops and present their work at a 2-day seminar.
Email lucyly@sund.ku.dk if you would like further information

Friday, September 23, 2011 10:30-12:00
Seminar: Representing and replacing bodies.
CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 København K. Room: 10.0.11 Guest speakers: Anthropologists Lesley Sharp and Janelle Taylor

Monday, 6 June 2011, 14:00-15.15
Stefan Helmreich: "How the Ocean Got Its Genome: Making Meaning out of Microbes in Marine Biology"
CSS Room 10.0.11, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen K

Monday, 30 May 2011, 14:00-15.30
Vinciane Despret: "Bodies in the Field"
CSS Room 10.0.11, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen K

Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 15:15-16:15
Herbert Gottweis
CSS Room 7.0.40, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen K
 
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Opening Reception of the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies
Celebration lectures:
• Sarah Franklin: Life After IVF: has biology become a technology?
• Ken Arnold: Art and Communication of Medical Science
Medical Museion, auditorium, Bredgade 62, Copenhagen K

Thursday, 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:00
Mark A. Bedau: "Living Technologies"
CSS Room 10.0.11, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen K

Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 15:15 - 16:30
Angus Dawson: "The 'Least Restrictive Alternative' and Foundational Values for Public Health Ethics"
CSS Room 7.0.01, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen K

Thursday, 28 October 2010, 14:00 - 15:30
Tiago Moirera: "Ageing in Technological Democracies"
Medicinsk Museion, Auditoriet, Bredgade 62, Copenhagen K

Monday, 20 September 2010, 13:00 - 14:30
Barbara Czarniawska: "Narrative medicine: Does it have a future?"
Arranged in collaboration with CBS
CSS Room 10.0.11, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Copenhagen K