A seminar series on Science, Technology and Innovation organised by STIS Edinburgh
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Each talk has an organiser. Please contact them in the first instance if you have a query about a particular talk. Only contact one of the people below if you have a question about the list, such as whether your talk or series could be added.
| Botanic Gardens: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" |
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| David Ingram |
| Mon 18 Nov 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB |
| What is energy justice, why does it matter and can it ever be obtained? |
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| Kirstin Jenkins |
| Mon 11 Nov 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB |
| Bend until it breaks? On interactions between research evaluation, research conduct, and science-society relations |
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| Sarah de Rijcke |
| Mon 04 Nov 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB |
| Making markets: stories of technologies, knowledge, invisibility, and willful ignorance |
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| Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra |
| Mon 28 Oct 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB |
| PhD-Showcase: Rodrigo: Internationalisation dynamics at play: constructing and diffusing zebrafish as a model organism in Latin American life sciences; Yazmin: Employed methods for generating a privacy game |
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| Rodrigo Liscovsky / Yazmin Morlet Corti |
| Mon 21 Oct 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB |
| Governing sustainability in the Global North and the Global South: uncertainties and complexities in a comparative perspective |
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| Zora Kovacic |
| Mon 14 Oct 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB |
| The Cuban transition from beef to dairy after the socialist revolution. Connecting with the Western scientists within the Cold War context. |
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| Reinaldo Funes |
| Mon 07 Oct 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB |
| In the Same Vein: The Hepatitis B Vaccine and America’s Dirty Blood |
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| Lochlain Jain |
| Mon 30 Sep 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB |
| On Microperformance in Biological Experimentation |
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| Hans-Jörg Rheinberger |
| Mon 23 Sep 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Violet Laidlaw Room, CMB, 6th Floor |
| Teaching genetics under the embryology paradigm: Geoffrey Beale's Edinburgh Lectures, 1949-1961 |
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| Cheryl Lancaster, Durham University |
| Mon 25 Mar 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| Resisting the iLeviathan: A solidarity-based approach to data governance |
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| Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna |
| Mon 18 Mar 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| Diffusion and citation impact of clinical trials published in the open scientific literature |
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| Alfredo Yegros, Leiden University |
| Fri 15 Mar 2019, 09:30 - 11:00 |
| Old Surgeons' Hall (1.62) |
| Instruments and Instrumentality |
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| Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge |
| Mon 11 Mar 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| Democratizing environmental expertise: challenges and opportunities at the science-policy-society interface |
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| Esther Turnhout, Wageningen University (Netherlands) |
| Mon 04 Mar 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| A 'truly international' discipline: adverbs, ideals, and scientific hegemony, 1893-1950 |
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| Michael Barany (University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 25 Feb 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| Actionable Data for Precision Oncology: Developing a Trustworthy Data Source |
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| Niccolò Tempini, University of Exeter |
| Mon 18 Feb 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| Curation and care: Maintaining community collections in Drosophila genetics |
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| Jenny Bangham, University of Cambridge |
| Mon 04 Feb 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Different Data Futures: An experiment in citizen data |
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| Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Mon 28 Jan 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| Past climates, Volcanoes and Earth analogues: Soviet Articulations of Climate Futures |
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| Jonathan Oldfield, University of Birmingham |
| Mon 21 Jan 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| Making and unmaking in landscapes of progress |
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| Arvid van Dam, University of Leeds |
| Mon 14 Jan 2019, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| CMB Staff Room (6th Floor) |
| Ordering Practices and Algorithmic Sensing: 4 Metaphors to Think With |
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| Francis Lee, Uppsala University |
| Mon 19 Nov 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Reshaping Dementia: Materialities of Care in Medicine, Social Gerontology, and Citizenship Practices |
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| Mike Laufenberg, Technical University Berlin |
| Mon 12 Nov 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Data-Driven Dreaming and Biopolitical Immediacy |
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| Aleena Chia, University of Jyväskylä |
| Mon 29 Oct 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| ‘Tortoises all the way down’: Geertz, cybernetics and ‘culture' during the Cold War |
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| Poornima Paidipaty, London School of Economics |
| Mon 22 Oct 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Performing Bureaucracy: Cultures of Government Data Practice |
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| Morgan Currie, University of Edinburgh |
| Mon 15 Oct 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Shaken not Stirred: Why STS scholars must not be ‘innocents abroad’ |
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| Heidrun Åm, Norwegian University for Science and Technology |
| Mon 08 Oct 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Seed Banks or Seed Morgues? Salvaging Crop Diversity from Long-Term Storage |
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| Helen Curry, University of Cambridge |
| Mon 01 Oct 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Collecting Energy at the National Museum of Scotland |
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| Haileigh Robertson, National Museum of Scotland |
| Mon 24 Sep 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th Floor, Crystal Macmillan Building |
| Rescaling Colonial Life From the Indigenous to the Alien: The Late 20th Century Search for Human Biological Futures |
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| Joanna Radin, Yale University |
| Mon 17 Sep 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Science, the State and the City: Britain’s struggle to imitate US success in Biotechnology - and its lessons for industrial strategy |
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| Michael Hopkins |
| Mon 25 Sep 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Old Surgeons' Hall |
| Making space for the political in Responsible Research and Innovation |
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| Deborah Scott |
| Mon 18 Sep 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Old Surgeons' Hall |
| Through the biomedical eye: making and circulating images of early human cytogenetics |
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| Dr Maria Jesus Santesmases (Spanish National Research Council) |
| Mon 27 Mar 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Title TBC STIS 20/3 |
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| Prof Kristin Asdal (University of Oslo) |
| Mon 20 Mar 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| STIS double PhD session: 'No Heroics, Please: A Study of Deceased Donation Practices in a Catalan Hospital' and 'Digital Revolution Tamed: The Case of the Recording Industry' |
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| Sara Bea (University of Edinburgh); Dr Hyojung Sun (University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 13 Mar 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| The Cultural Political Economy of Technical Fix Promises: Cases from the Climate Change Domain |
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| Dr Nils Markusson (Lancaster University) |
| Mon 06 Mar 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th Floor, Crystal Macmillan Building |
| Popularizing the Calorie: the Belgian Press and the Dissemination of a Nutritional Concept, 1890 - 1920 |
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| Dr Peter Scholliers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
| Mon 27 Feb 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| ‘Weird Solidarities’: Conceptualizing Social Solidarity Between Data Bodies |
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| Dr Karen Gregory (University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 13 Feb 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| ‘Perched above the Earth as an Observer of the Whole’: Frank J. Malina and the Politics of Jet Propulsion |
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| Dr Fraser MacDonald (University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 06 Feb 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Nonknowledge and Real World Experiments |
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| Dr Matthias Gross (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) |
| Mon 30 Jan 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th Floor, Crystal Macmillan Building |
| Smart and Inclusive Growth: a new narrative on wealth creation |
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| Prof Mariana Mazzucato (University of Sussex) |
| Fri 27 Jan 2017, 15:00 - 17:30 |
| David Hume Tower - LG.11 |
| Life with an Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator: The Becoming of the Everyday Cyborg |
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| Gill Haddow (University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 23 Jan 2017, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| From the mundane to the sophisticated: military innovation studies and the question of power, Matthew Ford (University of Sussex) |
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| NO SPEAKER AVAILABLE FOR THIS TALK |
| Mon 17 Oct 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Barriers, bodies and bacteria: the 'scaling up' of synthetic biology, Susan Molyneux-Hodgson (University of Exeter) |
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| Dr Susan Molyneux-Hodgson |
| Mon 10 Oct 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Looking into the Test-Tube: The Birth of IVF on British Television (Dr Katie Dow, University of Cambridge) |
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| Katie Dow (University of Cambridge) |
| Mon 03 Oct 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Negative stereotypes of the Scottish diet: A qualitative analysis of deep-fried Mars bar references in the Scottish press |
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| Dr Christine Knight (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 21 Mar 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Co-creation in health innovation |
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| Prof Ellen Moors (University of Utrecht) |
| Mon 14 Mar 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Digital Copyright Hub and the Politics of Infrastructural delegation |
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| Dr Gian Marco Campagnolo (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 07 Mar 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| New roles for medical humanities |
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| Dr Annamaria Carusi (University of Sheffield) |
| Mon 29 Feb 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Pricing Risk, Governing Risk-Taking: Trust, Modelling and the Cultures of Credit Risk Evaluation in Commercial and Investment Banks |
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| Dr Taylor Spears (Sociology, University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 22 Feb 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| History on-line: The case of monoclonal antibodies |
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| Dr Lara Marks (King's College, London) |
| Mon 25 Jan 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Roadmaps and Pipelines, Hurdles and Obstacles: Translational Medicine and the Bioethics Backlash |
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| Dr Duncan Wilson (University of Manchester) |
| Mon 18 Jan 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Assembling the "ageing society" |
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| Dr Tiago Moreira (Durham University) |
| Mon 11 Jan 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| Court ceremonies electrified: technological innovation and Russian imperial power |
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| Dr Natalia Nikiforova (Saint-Petersburg Peter the Great Polytechnic University) |
| Mon 07 Dec 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Bureaucratic disorders: biomedical nationalism, pharmaceutical citizenship and access to drugs for rare diseases in the United Kingdom |
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| Dr Samuel Taylor-Alexander (Law-Mason Institute, University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 30 Nov 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Identifying barriers for the development of the dairy supply chain in Malawi |
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| Dr Cesar Revoredo (Scotland's Rural College) |
| Mon 23 Nov 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Modernity and the mobility of knowledge: fundamental research in Britain's colonial laboratories after 1940 |
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| Dr Sabine Clarke (University of York) |
| Mon 16 Nov 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Capturing skills and innovation from collaborative relationships - applying process based approach to university-industry linkages |
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| Dr Fumi Kitagawa (Business School, University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 09 Nov 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| IP in plants and synthetic biology: a historical analysis of contemporary concerns |
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| Dr Dominic Berry (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh) |
| Mon 02 Nov 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Confronting the metric tide: performance indicators and the social construction of science |
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| Prof Paul Wouters |
| Mon 26 Oct 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building (University of Edinburgh, George Square) |
| An anatomy of influence: science, politics and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1970-2011 |
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| Prof Susan Owens (University of Cambridge) |
| Mon 19 Oct 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| A history of the Hepatitis B vaccine |
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| Dr Farah Huzair |
| Mon 12 Oct 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Elements for a social inquiry into capitalization |
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| Prof Fabian Muniesa |
| Mon 05 Oct 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |
| Regenerative medicine business models: towards an indicative model and typologies |
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| Dr Geoffrey Banda |
| Mon 28 Sep 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Staff Room, 6th floor, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh |