Dear colleagues,
We are very happy to announce the program of the second cycle of the
international seminar series "Ecobiosocial Complexities: encounters,
critiques, integrations".
The seminars are supported by the International Relations of UNIL, the SNSF
Ambizione project "Constructing the Biosocial" (N.185822) and, for the Spring
semester, by the STS Lab. @UNIL. The series will bring together the results
and research paths of STS scholars working on the social dimensions of
post-genomics and the turn towards environmental questions and social
determinants of health in life sciences. The aim of the series is to identify
the multiple ways forward of biosocial thinking in health promotion and
society (for further information see abstract below and flyer attached).
The sessions will take place at the University of Lausanne and will also be
accessible online via Zoom. More information on the series on the website of
the STS Lab @UNIL. The link to last semester's program is
here, and the one for the upcoming
semester here.
You are already cordially invited to the very first seminar which will take
place Wednesday, February 15th, from 12pm to 1:30pm. We will welcome (online
only) Dr. Sergei Yu Shevchenko (former Russian Academy of Science) for a talk
entitled: "Immunopolitics, immunosociality, and production of failing forms of
life". A reminder will follow. Stay tuned !
Here is the whole program for the semester and a recap about logistics:
12pm-1:30pm; room GEO-2215 or 2218 (check the webpages of each event); or see
you on Zoom: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/66516277875)
- 15 February 2023
"Immunopolitics, immunosociality, and production of failing forms of life".
Sergei Yu Shevchenko, Independent Researcher/Russian Academy of Science.
- 30 March 2023 "The
Evolution of ACEs: From Coping Behaviors to Epigenetics as Explanatory Models
for the Biology of Adverse Childhood Experiences". Ruth Mller, Technische
Universitt Mnchen & Martha Kenney, San Francisco State University.
- 12 April 2023 "Caring with
Haunted Microbes". Astrid Schrader, University of Exeter.
- 24 April 2023 "Dirty
parenting and toxic terroir: The symbiopolitics of securing intergenerational
microbial transmission". Beth Greenhough & Jamie Lorimer, University of
Oxford.
- 24 May 2023 "Why the
microbiome, why now? Historicising the post-genomic turn in social theory
(with an attention to fermentation)". Jamie Lorimer, University of Oxford &
Joshua Evans, Danish Technical University.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Ccile Fasel, Francesco Panese and Luca Chiapperino
ABSTRACT
This seminar series falls under the scope of the Swiss National Science
Foundation Ambizione Project "Constructing the Biosocial: an engaged inquiry
into epigenetics and post-genomic biosciences" (N.185822). The series wishes
to inaugurate a new phase of research around post-genomics, which both
capitalises on ongoing social science research (in different national and
international contexts) and puts at the center of this research and its future
interdisciplinary perspectives and collaboration. The current global landscape
of research in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) is populated
by a wealth of studies of the social dimensions of post-genomic life sciences.
More specifically, several projects grapple with the turn towards
environmental questions and social determinants of health in the life
sciences: on the one hand, it is imperative to critically assess and
deconstruct these openings in biomedical sciences; on the other hand, it is
also crucial to productively take biomedicines interest in the object of
social sciences the social as an opportunity for a new wave of
collaborative research.
The objective of the seminar series "Ecobiosocial complexities" is to connect
the results and research paths of STS scholars working on these matters, and
to identify the multiple ways forward of this research for health promotion
and society. How can we move from state-of-the-art social science knowledge on
the social and environmental turn in post-genomic life sciences to novel
epistemic, socio-political and policy approaches to the biological and social
determinants of health? What novel avenues of research are needed to achieve
this objective? What novel circulations, encounters and integrations of
scientific fields can promote biosocial research practices around
post-genomics.
Luca Chiapperino
SNSF Ambizione Lecturer
University of Lausanne
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Institute of Social Sciences STS
Lab
Quartier UNIL-Mouline
Btiment Gopolis, Bureau 5556
CH-1015 Lausanne - Switzerland
Mobile: +41 78 890 10 08
ResearchGate
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