CELLULAR SPACES: A CBAR-Workshop on Cells
Event: WorkshopStart date: 30 Jun 2008 00:00
End date: 01 Jul 2008 00:00
Speaker(s):
Dr Christine Hauskeller, Egenis, University of Exeter
Dr Susan Kelly, Egenis, University of Exeter
Dr Julie Kent, University of the West of England
Prof Hannah Landecker, Department of Anthropology, Rice University
Dr Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, Anthropology, University of Sussex
Dr Susanne Weber, Egenis, University of Exeter
Dr Duncan Wilson, Manchester University
Dr Dana Wilson-Kovacs, Egenis, University of Exeter
Organised by:
Christine Hauskeller, Susanne Weber, Dana Wilson-Kovacs,
Egenis, University of Exeter
&
Julie Kent,
University of the West of England
Venue:
University of Exeter,
Egenis,
Byrne House,
St Germans Road,
Exeter, EX4 4PJ
Room no: GF7, Byrne House
The set of objects around which the research in the ESRC’s Stem Cell Capacity Building Initiative evolves consists of multiple and shifting entities. Cellular life is highly contingent and stem cells and cell lines are produced through diverse socio-material practices.
This workshop aims to explore the variety of classificatory practices in which distinctions between different types of cells are marked according to qualities such as: natural, improved, adult somatic, fetal, embryonic, autologous, cybrid, human, murine, mesenchymal, haematopoetic, neural, reprogrammed, induced pluripotent, clinical grade, therapeutic, communicating..
Join us for this workshop to revisit and draw together our experiences on how cells are named, categorised, identified, used, regulated, and defined and how we found the cells to be ordered, so that we can reflect upon how we ourselves order.
Taking an analytic perspective towards the diverse cellular spaces that are carved out at the intersections of scientific, regulatory and wider social arenas may help to structure the field, integrating empirical bottom-up perspectives and systematic approaches. How we may want to understand the specificities of the entities that come to inhabit cellular spaces and the social processes that shape them in the future could be a concluding question.
Programme: Monday, 30 June
Lunch reception
1.00 - 3.00pm Introduction and Origins and Kinds
Julie Kent: Mapping the fetal tissue economy: an invisible human project
Susanne Webber and Dana Wilson-Kovacs: Splitting cells: autologous stem cell practices in Germany and the UK
3.00 - 3.30pm Coffee/Tea Break
3.00 - 4.30pm Pluripotency
Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner: The Contesting Culture of Cell lives in Japan
Christine Hauskeller: Molecular ultimacy? Changing understandings of pluripotency
5.00pm Public Keynote Lecture: XFI Conference Room (1 & 2)
Hannah Landecker: It Is What It Eats: An Epigenetic History of Cells in Nutrient Media
Drinks Reception
Workshop Dinner
Programme: Tuesday, 1 July
9.30 - 11.00am Beyond Stem Cells
Susan Kelly: Crossing spaces: fetal cell microchimerism and stem cell science
Duncan Wilson: ”A Cell is Not an Animal!” Crossing the Species Barrier In Vitro during the 1960s
11.00 - 11.30am Coffee/Tea Break
11.30am - 1.00pm Cell Futures
Lunch reception
Further details:
Workshop, lunch, teas and dinner are free of charge for all participants. The number of places is limited. We will allocate places in the order of application
Registration applications per email to Christine Hauskeller: C.Hauskeller@ex.ac.uk or Saira Kidangan: S.V.Kidangan@ex.ac.uk
Also, Saira Kidangan can provide information regarding accommodation, travel and location.
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