30 January 2012
Egenis seminar with Christophe Bonneuil, 'Genes' inescapable ecologies'
26 January 2012
Egenis/Centre for Medical History seminar with Dr Alison Kraft ‘From "desperate measure" to "curative intent": Bone marrow transplantation, c. 1957-1977’
23 January 2012
Egenis seminar with Dr. Emanuele Serrelli, 'Model as a “stable target of explanation”:
Mendelian population like model organisms?'
12 December 2011
Egenis seminar with Professor Hub Zwart 'Has the genomics revolution arrived?'
28 November 2011
Egenis seminar with Dr Elena Simakova 'Values, audiences, and metaphors: an inquiry into the discourses of governable science'
14 November 2011
Egenis seminar with Professor Paul Griffiths 'Lehrman’s dictum: Information and explanation in biology'
31 October 2011
Egenis seminar with Dr Ingrid Holme, 'Subverting the biological citizen: exploring informal sperm-donation through Gumtree advertisements'
24 October 2011
Egenis seminar with Berris Charnley, 'Why didn’t an equivalent to the US Plant Patent Act of 1930 emerge in Britain?'
17 October 2011
Egenis seminar with Dr Richard Holdsworth, 'Law, biology and culture'
10 October 2011
Egenis seminar with Dr Michael Morrison, 'Diagnosis as justification for intervention: A case study of childhood short stature'
13 June 2011
Egenis seminar with Dr Chris Lawless 'Emerging Forensic DNA Technologies: Risks, Realities and Representations'
27 May 2011
Egenis seminar with Professor Maurice Biriotti 'Medicine, Innovation and the Humanities: an experience from the private sector'
16 May 2011
Egenis seminar with Dr Nina Hallowell 'Cascade screening for Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH): the Scottish experience'
28 March 2011
Egenis Seminar with Dr Nadire Ali 'Human ES and iPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes: Challenges in their potential uses in medicine'
21 March 2011
Egenis Seminar with Dr Barbara Prainsack 'Doing Knowledge: Science, practice, and policy making' (drawing upon joint work with Prof Hendrik Wagenaar, Leiden University, NL)
14 March 2011
Egenis Seminar with Dr Yulia Egorova 'DNA as a memory site: perspectives from ‘Jewish genetics’'
28 February 2011
Egenis seminar with Dr Caragh Brosnan 'The Meaning(s) of Ethics in Experimental Neuroscience'
21 February 2011
Egenis Seminar with Professor Jon Frampton 'Has the pluripotent stem cell had its day?'
14 February 2011
Egenis seminar with Professor John Dupré 'Postgenomic Darwinism and Human Nature'
31 January 2011
Egenis seminar with Dr W.N.(Wybo) Houkes 'An Artefact Model of Models'
17 January 2011
Department of Sociology and Philosophy seminar with Dr Nigel Pleasants "Social structure and moral agency in the antislavery and animal liberation movements."
13 December 2010
Egenis Seminar with Dr Mathias Grote 'Microbes, macromolecules and nanomachines: Rhodopsin research in between chemistry, technologies and the life sciences'
29 November 2010
Egenis Seminar with Dr Hannah Farrimond 'What do lay people think about new non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnosis technologies?'
22 November 2010
Egenis Seminar with Dr Carol Morris 'Entanglements of knowledge-practices within the geneticisation of UK livestock breeding: enacting the animal body multiple'
15 November 2010
Egenis Seminar with Professor Giovanni Boniolo ‘Identity and Epigenetics’
08 November 2010
Egenis Seminar with Mr Robert Meunier 'Pluralism concerning traits. A case study in developmental biology'
25 October 2010
Egenis Seminar with Dr Karola Stotz 'Nurture goes Molecular: Environmental epigenomics of health and disease'
11 October 2010
Egenis Seminar with Dr Helen Middleton-Price ‘Tales from Death Row in Louisiana; DNA and Innocence’
04 October 2010
Egenis Seminar with Professor Mark Bedau 'Minimal chemical life is a matter of degree'
01 November 2010
Department of Sociology and Philosophy seminar with Dr Paul Griffiths 'A more biological approach to human diversity'
27 September 2010
(Edinburgh) 'The New Politics of Food Security: A Return to Dig for Victory?'
15 June 2010
Egenis and Centre for Medical History Joint Seminar with Professor Bernardino Fantini 'Reading and writing the book of life: Linguistic metaphors in the history of genomics and biotechnologies'
09 June 2010
Egenis Seminar with Professor Michael Lynch “Administrative objectivity, forensic databases, and the exceptional status of forensic DNA evidence”
26 May 2010
Egenis Seminar with Sarah Bennett 'Re-modelling the model: a critique of an institution through artistic research'
25 May 2010
Egenis Seminar with Dr Erich Griessler “Because it is such a hot potato, we better don’t touch it”
The Regulation of controversial biomedical research in Austria
18 May 2010
Professor Leah McClimans 'Justifying Clinical Ethics: Bridging the Gap Between Evaluation and Advocacy'
11 May 2010
Dr. Scott Vrecko 'Pharmaceuticals, culture, and control'
04 May 2010
Egenis Seminar with Dr Thomas Pradeu 'From an immunological point of view: delineating the heterogeneous organism'
30 March 2010
Seminar with Professor Steve Fuller 'Humanity: The Always Already - or Never To Be - Object of the Social Sciences?'
23 March 2010
Egenis Seminar with Dr Alison Kraft 'Paradigms, paradoxes, plasticity: A history of the blood stem cell'
23 February 2010
Prof Anne Kerr 'Assisted conception: Going Private'
16 February 2010
Dr Koen Jonkers 'The evolution of China’s molecular life science research system'
09 February 2010
Egenis and Centre for Medical History Joint Seminar with Dr Robert Bud 'Constructing mode 2: The invention of biotechnology as technoscience in the 1960s and 1970s'
02 February 2010
Prof John Vincent 'The Politics of Death Itself: Cultural contest over old age through the lens of anti-ageing science and technology'
26 January 2010
Prof Barry Barnes 'How Scanning Our Brains Reveals The Truth: the Problem of the Next-but-One Case'
19 January 2010
10.30 - 12.00 Prof Helga Nowotny ' The Transparent Gene'
12 January 2010
Chris Elphick 'Exploring the clinical validity and utility of psychiatric genetic tests'
08 December 2009
Prof Andrew Pickering 'Sketches of Another Future: Cybernetics in Britain, 1940-2000'
08 December 2009
Egenis Seminar with Prof Philipp Sarasin
01 December 2009
Prof Michael Parker 'Mapping ethics in a collaborative global malaria genomic epidemiology network (MalariaGEN)'
24 November 2009
Assoc. Prof Kaushik Sunder Rajan 'Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical Logics and Transnational Translations: Three Entry Points into Biocapital Downstream'
17 November 2009
Prof Paul Griffths 'When do evolutionary explanations of beliefs debunk those beliefs?
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10 November 2009
Dr. Hristina Petkova 'The response by health care systems to "niched" genetic testing: well- or ill-equipped or ‘fuzzy’ '
10 November 2009
Egenis Seminar with Dr Alison Kraft
03 November 2009
Egenis and Centre for Medical History Joint Seminar with Dr Isabelle Charmantier and Dr Staffan Mueller-Wille 'Rewriting the System of Nature. Linnaeus's Use of Writing Technologies'.
27 October 2009
Tom Richardson 'Bioenergy science and the politics of sustainability: a discursive examination of four UK bioenergy research projects'
20 October 2009
Berris Charnely 'From the Origin to Cairo; rogues and purity in British genetics, 1900-1925'
13 October 2009
Prof Robert Simpson 'We have always been modern: Buddhism, Science and the New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies in Sri Lanka'
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06 October 2009
Ayesha Ahmad 'Meta(physic) in scientific medicine – the making of the embryo'
22 September 2009
Egenis Seminar with Dr Patrick Forterre
30 June 2009
Doing Epidemiology: The case of Bisphenol A
23 June 2009
Personhood in a Neurobiological Age
16 June 2009
The Large Genome Collider: Wide Hybrids and the Making of Apomixis
09 June 2009
Troubling Classifications: Categorizing Chimeras and Enacting Species Preservation
02 June 2009
The Role Of Genetic Knowledge And Technology In Familial And Professionals’ Constructions Of Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (Nf1)
26 May 2009
Data Sharing in Genomics – what are the implications?
19 May 2009
Mechanism, complexity and metaphysics in molecular and cell biology
12 May 2009
De/geneticising caste: population genetic research in South Asia
05 May 2009
Explanations of the increasing prevalence of Autistic Spectrum Disorders: ‘lay’ and ‘expert’ perspectives
28 April 2009
The interaction between functional and evolutionary biology
17 March 2009
Egenis Seminar with Ernesto Schwartz
10 March 2009
Molecular Laboratory:Re-Presenting Time
03 March 2009
A social autopsy of the TGN1412 clinical trial: Northwick park, Research Ethics Committees and the normalisation of deviance
25 February 2009
The Genomics of Anti-Commodity: West African Farmer Inter-Specific Rice Hybrids
24 February 2009
'Being towards death': Heidegger and the politics of 'life itself'
19 February 2009
From Commonplace Books to Index cards: Linnaeus at Work, 1727-1777
17 February 2009
Urban animal: rodents, humans, and the problem of the crowd
10 February 2009
Nature, Nurture Neither: Reconceptualizing Sex, Gender and Sexuality
10 February 2009
Nature, Nurture Neither: Reconceptualizing Sex, Gender and Sexuality
03 February 2009
Egenis Seminar with Dr Sabina Leonelli
27 January 2009
Egenis seminar with Dan Nicholson
20 January 2009
Egenis seminar with Dr Jean Paul Gaudilliere
12 January 2009
Egenis Seminar with Dr Iain Lang
12 January 2009
Egenis Seminar (to be confirmed)
09 December 2008
Egenis seminar with Dr Susan Kelly
02 December 2008
Egenis seminar with Prof Brian Rappert
25 November 2008
Egenis seminar with Prof Alexander Bird
21 November 2008
Context sensitive Ethics in Reprogenetics-Views of patients, Health Professionals and the Public
18 November 2008
Egenis seminar with Dr Karola Stotz
11 November 2008
Egenis seminar with Richard Holdsworth
04 November 2008
Egenis seminar with Professor Jonathan Frampton
21 October 2008
Egenis seminar with Jean Harrington
14 October 2008
Reflections on the role of social scientists in synthetic biology…and some holiday snaps
07 October 2008
Egenis seminar with Prof Paul Griffiths
27 June 2008
EFSA as a risk assessor in Agricultural Biotechnology: a Case of Asymmetries and Uncertainties
24 June 2008
Time, Genomics, and the Social: Some Anthropological Thoughts on "Biotemporality
23 August 2008
Egenis Seminar with Professor Nikolas Rose
17 June 2008
The Evolutionary Programme in Social Philosophy: Explanatory (Perhaps) but not Prescriptive
13 June 2008
Dying breed or dying definition? How pedigree breeding is re-organising around the contemporary genetic paradigm
10 June 2008
Egenis Seminar: It is a living history, told by the real survivors of the times: the DNA' - Anthropological genetics in the tradition of biology as applied history
27 May 2008
Egenis Seminar replaced by HUSS Postgraduate Conference
20 May 2008
Egenis Seminar with Prof Giuseppe Testa
13 May 2008
Revisiting the Origin of Genetics
06 May 2008
When ‘non expert’ handle new techno-scientific objects. The case of nanotechnologies in Italy
15 April 2008
Egenis Seminar: Stem Cell Research Agendas: Scientific, Clinical and Regulatory Practices in a Cross-National Perspective
06 March 2008
Egenis seminar-title to be confirmed
06 March 2008
Off Human Nature
04 March 2008
‘Managing’ biological kinship knowledge - familial and regulatory ‘information-management’ during assisted conception –
26 February 2008
How phenomenology can augment naturalism in medicine
19 February 2008
Cell therapy for cardiac disease - medicine of the future?
05 February 2008
Seminar speaker: Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Egenis PhD Student
'title to be confirmed'
31 January 2008
Rethinking the ‘family’ approach: the case of coronary heart disease prevention
31 January 2008
Reconfiguring ‘sciences’: historical perspectives and recent bio-medicine &
Making way for molecular biology: implementing, managing, and publicizing reform of biological science at the University of Manchester, 1980-93
15 January 2008
Culture adaptation of human ES cells, self renewal and cancer
08 January 2008
Distributed and Local Explanations in Systems Biology
