PhD Course announcement:
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<br>CONCEPTUALIZING, THEORIZING, AND HISTORICIZING THE BIOECONOMY
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<br>PhD course in STS, University of Oslo
<br>One Week PhD Course in Science and Technology Studies: 9-13 December 2019
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<br>In 2006 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
<br>published a first call for designing a policy agenda for the emerging
<br>'bioeconomy'. The neologism was obviously invented to proclaim and promote the
<br>happy match of 'bios' (i.e. life, here: life sciences) with 'the economy'.
<br>Since then for policy makers and organizations 'bioeconomy' is a term that
<br>characterizes an innovation economy based on biotechnologies while social
<br>scientists study it as a new form of capitalism.
<br>This PhD course is part the ERC project "The Good Economy" (PI Kristin Asdal,
<br>https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/projects/little-tools/index.html)
<br>and will explore the 'bio-economy' from a different angle by historicizing and
<br>theorizing its components 'life' and 'economy', its in-betweens, and their
<br>long-standing relations. We will especially investigate the concepts of 'bios'
<br>(i.e. 'life'/ 'the living'), temporalities, and reproduction from a (feminist)
<br>technoscience studies angle.
<br>What does 'life' stand in for in the 'bio-economy': Is it a discipline
<br>(biology), specific technologies (bio-tech), the realm of the living from
<br>cells to tissue, to animals, to humans? Do particular economic structures or
<br>systems generate specific life forms? Or does life culture any form of
<br>resistance? In which ways have biotechnologies intervened into the
<br>temporalities of living matter for the sake of value-creation? What tools,
<br>practices, and infrastructures render economies of reproduction possible? For
<br>whose benefit and who might be excluded?
<br>The course will engage actively with the participants' own research interests.
<br>All participants are expected to submit a draft paper in advance of the
<br>course.
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<br>Application deadline: 15 June 2019
<br>Please submit a short letter of motivation (max. 500 words) which includes
<br>your institutional affiliation, a description of your research interests, and
<br>an abstract for your course paper to Silje Morsman. Please submit the letter
<br>of motivation as an appendix, preferably in .rtf. or .doc formats. All
<br>participants must be enrolled in a phd program. This is an intensive course
<br>with all activities within one week.
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<br>Lecturers:
<br>- Martina Schlnder, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
<br>Berlin/TIK
<br>- Solveig Jlich, Uppsala University
<br>- Kristin Asdal, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University
<br>of Oslo, Norway
<br>- Susanne Bauer, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University
<br>of Oslo, Norway
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<br>There is no course fee. All lunches, coffee/tea breaks and one joint dinner
<br>included. Travel and accommodation must be covered by participants.
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<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
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<br>The deadline for submitting course papers will be 18 November 2019. Papers
<br>should be 5000 words and work in progress, not a finished text. Participants
<br>are expected to read all draft papers in addition to the course literature.
<br>During the course week, students will present their own paper and be the main
<br>commentator of another paper together with one of the lecturers.
<br>The precirculated paper may be a draft analytical chapter/article from the
<br>dissertation, but not the introduction or theory/methods chapter alone. The
<br>paper needs to function as a starting point for discussing both how you
<br>analyze your empirical material and how you write your own texts.
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