Message posted on 14/06/2019
REMINDER - PhD course in STS: CONCEPTUALIZING, THEORIZING, AND HISTORICIZING THE BIOECONOMY, University of Oslo, 9-13 December 2019
REMINDER — Application deadline approaching: <br> <br> <br>PhD course in STS: CONCEPTUALIZING, THEORIZING, AND HISTORICIZING THE BIOECONOMY <br> <br>University of Oslo <br> <br>One Week PhD Course in Science and Technology Studies: 9-13 December 2019 <br> <br>In 2006 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a first call for designing a policy agenda for the emerging 'bioeconomy'. The neologism was obviously invented to proclaim and promote the happy match of 'bios' (i.e. life, here: life sciences) with 'the economy'. Since then for policy makers and organizations 'bioeconomy' is a term that characterizes an innovation economy based on biotechnologies while social scientists study it as a new form of capitalism. <br> <br>This PhD course is part the ERC project "The Good Economy" (PI Kristin Asdal, https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/projects/little-tools/index.html) and will explore the 'bio-economy' from a different angle by historicizing and theorizing its components 'life' and 'economy', its in-betweens, and their long-standing relations. We will especially investigate the concepts of 'bios' (i.e. 'life'/ 'the living'), temporalities, and reproduction from a (feminist) technoscience studies angle. <br> <br>What does 'life' stand in for in the 'bio-economy': Is it a discipline (biology), specific technologies (bio-tech), the realm of the living from cells to tissue, to animals, to humans? Do particular economic structures or systems generate specific life forms? Or does life culture any form of resistance? In which ways have biotechnologies intervened into the temporalities of living matter for the sake of value-creation? What tools, practices, and infrastructures render economies of reproduction possible? For whose benefit and who might be excluded? <br>The course will engage actively with the participants' own research interests. All participants are expected to submit a draft paper in advance of the course. <br> <br>Application deadline: 15 June 2019 <br> <br>Please submit a short letter of motivation (max. 500 words) which includes your institutional affiliation, a description of your research interests, and an abstract for your course paper to Silje Morsman. Please submit the letter of motivation as an appendix, preferably in .rtf. or .doc formats. All participants must be enrolled in a phd program. This is an intensive course with all activities within one week. <br>Lecturers: <br>- Martina Schlünder, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin/TIK <br>- Solveig Jülich, Uppsala University <br>- Kristin Asdal, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway <br>- Susanne Bauer, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway <br> <br>There is no course fee. All lunches, coffee/tea breaks and one joint dinner included. Travel and accommodation must be covered by participants. <br>Credit requirements: <br>-submit and present a course paper <br>-attend the entire course week <br>-be main commentator of another paper <br>-take active part in discussions <br>The deadline for submitting course papers will be 18 November 2019. Papers should be 5000 words and work in progress, not a finished text. Participants are expected to read all draft papers in addition to the course literature. During the course week, students will present their own paper and be the main commentator of another paper together with one of the lecturers. <br>The precirculated paper may be a draft analytical chapter/article from the dissertation, but not the introduction or theory/methods chapter alone. The paper needs to function as a starting point for discussing both how you analyze your empirical material and how you write your own texts. <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
EASST-Eurograd
mailing list
30 recent messages
30 recent messages
- 26/03/2024 Job Offer - Experienced Scientist (m/f/d) in the field of Societal Futures
- 26/03/2024 ACM SIGCHI Sponsored: EICS 2024 Doctoral Consortium Support for Students
- 26/03/2024 Webinar recording now availabe: How to bring creativity to your research journey
- 25/03/2024 Invitation: Deep Tech & Society community
- 25/03/2024 List of books for review in ST&S, 2024 - Call for expressions of interest
- 23/03/2024 CFP: 4th Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA 2024)
- 23/03/2024 Reminder - call for abstracts: Foundational Challenges in Cosmological Studies of Black Holes (deadline: 31st March)
- 23/03/2024 FW: Postdoc and research assistant positions in Governance by Infrastructures at Aarhus University
- 21/03/2024 PhD position in STS: Collaboration, innovation and planning in regional energy transitions (NTNU)
- 21/03/2024 I: [CfP] AVI 2024 Workshop "Cyber Security Education for Industry and Academia" (CSE4IA'24)
- 21/03/2024 TATuP 33/1 (2024): new publication on "AI for decision support" online
- 21/03/2024 PhD studentship, Online Healthcare Feedback, Care and Complaint, University of Edinburgh
- 21/03/2024 Call for academic position: Design and Sustainable Futures.
- 21/03/2024 Opening for Professor in Sociology/STS in Gothenburg
- 21/03/2024 Postdoc Quantifying Dutch Historical Sustainability Trade-offs
- 21/03/2024 EASST/4S 2024: Short Story, Flash Fiction, and Poetry Competition - deadline 1 June 2024
- 19/03/2024 Research Sabbaticals (Fellowships) and Working Groups at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)
- 19/03/2024 Hau of Finance Online Seminar Series - “Mobilizing Capital in Communist Cuba” - Ståle Wig, University of Oslo - 26.03.2024 @ 15h CET
- 19/03/2024 Call for Applications: FELLOWSHIPS at CAPAS 2025-2026
- 19/03/2024 IAS-STS Fellowship Program 2024/25
- 19/03/2024 CfP: T2M Conference Leipzig 23-25 September 2024
- 19/03/2024 Reminder: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2024 -CFP
- 15/03/2024 iHuman Spring 2024 International Guest Seminar Series - The Imperfectly Relatable Robot, with Katherine Harrison (Linköping)
- 15/03/2024 Postdoc position in Networks of Expertise of the green transition - the case of energy islands (ERC-project), Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- 15/03/2024 The Eighth International Undergraduate Research Conference on Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (STMS): Registration Open
- 15/03/2024 Extended Call for Submissions: fPET 2024 - Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology, September 17-19, 2024 in Karlsruhe, Germany
- 15/03/2024 Open call pieces EASST Review
- 13/03/2024 Conference Call - Urban Speculations, Lüneburg, 4-6 February 2025
- 13/03/2024 Final Reminder - EURAS 2024
- 13/03/2024 Summer School - STS writing and publishing [Science Studies Symposium in Helsinki]