Tittelen på konferansen er "Sentient Creatures - Transforming biopoliticsand life matters"
Kultrans inviteter konferanse med blant annet disse temaene:
• Protecting, caring, conserving, killing, enhancing, ordering, securing, displaying, naming, modelling and reproducing – lives.
• How do we understand current and past interventions in lives and living processes?
• Are current and past attempts to politicize biology, and to biologize politics, or biopolitics, sufficient to understand who and what is at stake?
• How are practices as diverse as public health, health care, agri- and aquaculture, field and laboratory science, politics and administration changing lives and altering as those lives change?
Keynote speakers
Karen A. Rader - Virginia Commonwealth University (USA): "Domestication Revisited: Scientific Animals in the Laboratory and Beyond"
Rane Willerslev - Aarhus University (Denmark): ‘The Limits of the Human Imagination’. A Comparative Study of Anthropomorphic Thinking among Indigenous Hunters and Ethologists
John Law - Open University, Milton Keynes (UK)
Steve Hinchliffe - University of Exeter - (UK)
Garry Marvin - Roehampton University - (UK): " 'Together, in one': That hyphen in human-animal studies"
Volker Hess - Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Berlin (Germany): "Laudatio ranae. The history of physiology from the frog's eye view"
Gail Davies - University College London, Department of Geography (UK): "Caring for the multitude and the multiple"
Deadline for innmelding av paper var 15. mars 2010.
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