Audio/video files
Interior Traces
Senior Research Fellow Dr Hauskeller was one of a panel of guests at London's Science Museum on 5 May, 2009, discussing a radio drama entitled 'Interior Traces'. Six 15-minute episodes portray two fictional characters and how their predisposition to cancer or to aggressive behavioural tendencies might be diagnosed and treated in 1906, in the present day and in 20 years’ time. At the event at the Museum's Dana Centre the panel discussed the episodes set in 2030. All six episodes were presented at the Cheltenham Science Festival, with a panel discussion in the evening in which Dr Hauskeller again took part..
The drama is a project funded by the Wellcome Trust. Readings from the play are accompanied by live music, and projection of a video compilation of 'images' of the brain, including drawings, scans, and genetic data. The panel discussions used the fictional scenarios of the drama to spark discussion about brain imaging and other novel medical technologies and the issues they raise.
'Interior Traces' is available to download or to listen online, and you can also download recordings of the discussions that took place at the London event.
John Dupré at Darwin College, Cambridge
The Egenis Director gave the closing lecture in the Darwin lectures at Darwin College on 6 March, 2009.
Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures every academic year since 1986. Each series has been built around a single theme, approached in a multidisciplinary way and, as the College says, "with each lecture prepared for a general audience by a leading authority on his or her subject". Prof Dupré's lecture 'The Boundaries of Darwin' attracted a capacity crowd of 550 people, with a substantial overflow audience watching the lecture on screen. The talk is available to download or to listen online from the Darwin College website.
Start the Week
Professor John Dupré was a guest on the Radio 4 programme Start the Week on 1 December, 2009. The programme, hosted by Andrew Marr, brings together guests from various fields in the arts and sciences as well as commentators on politics and current affairs. Professor Dupré was talking about Genomes and What to Make of Them, the book he has co-authored with Egenis co-director Professor Barry Barnes.
John Dupré on Genetic Determinism
Aired April 19, 2005 on San Francisco's KALW (91.7 FM) John Dupré discussed how far we are 'trapped' by our genes.
Artist in Residence
As an interdisciplinary research centre we were delighted to have the resources to appoint Dr. Deborah Robinson as our first Artist in Residence using some of the funds provided by the ESRC for web communications activities.
- Artist In Residence home page
- Artwork in progress' presentation
- Listen to the artist
BA Festival of Science
The University of Exeter hosted the British Association's Festival of Science in September 2004. Egenis organised a day long session featuring the Genomics Network directors and MP Phyllis Starkey, chair of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Part of the lectures given by the network directors can be viewed below.
- John Dupré, What is Fact and What is Value in Science?, Monday 6th September 2004
- Joyce Tait, Science and Bias, Monday 6th September 2004
- Ruth Chadwick, Re-establishing Trust in Science, Monday 6th September 2004
- Report from Festival
Radio Gemini interview
John Dupré and Ginny Russell in an interview with Radio Gemini, broadcast at launch of Egenis. Listen to the interview Radio Gemini interview (this may not work with all browsers - it certainly does not work with Netscape 7. Whatever browser you are using you can download the interview in full as mp3 file and then play it in the media player of your choice. But beware, this file is huge - broadband users only!)
