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WEDNESDAY 8TH JANUARY

 

 

KEYNOTE LECTURE
Professor Anne Kerr (University of Leeds)
Laboratory Affects: Subjectivities, material practices and the affective palettes of contemporary science

LOCATION: Management School, Lecture Theatre 4

Thursday 9TH JANUARY
LOCATION: Charles Carter A19
                                                        

08.45 – 09.00

Registration

09.00 – 09.15

Introduction

09.15 – 09.40

Oscar Javier Maldonada (Department of Sociology, Lancaster University)
Evidence governance in the introduction of HPV vaccines in Columbia
Reviewers: Brian Wynne (Department of Sociology) and WanJu Lee

09.45 – 10.10

Mohammed Cheded (Marketing, Lancaster University)
Welcome to the evidence factory: Story of a body, a pill and a market
Reviewers: Maggie Mort (Department of Sociology) and Oscar Javier Maldonada

10.15 – 10.40

WanJu Lee (Department of Sociology, Lancaster University)
Biobanks and their publics: the case study of the Taiwan Biobank
Reviewers: Maureen McNeil (Department of Sociology) and Mohammed Cheded

10.40 – 11.00

Discussion

11.00 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 11.40

Manu Brüggeman (HighWire, Lancaster University)
On Making knowledge mobile
Reviewers: Adrian Mackenzie (Department of Sociology) and Felipe Raglianti

11.45 – 12.10

Satya Savitzky (Department of Sociology, Lancaster University)
Carving the Northern Sea route
Reviewers: Rebecca Ellis (Lancaster Environment Centre) and Mette Kragh-Furbo

12.10 – 12.25

Discussion

12.25 – 13.15

Lunch

13.15 – 13.40

Márton Fabók (Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool)
Regimes, assemblages and a multi-sited ethnography into the future of British nuclear
Reviewers: Brian Bloomfield (Lancaster Management School) and Jonnet Middleton

13.45 – 14.10

Andrea Ghelfi (School of Management, University of Leicester)
Terraforming with permaculture
Reviewers: Claire Waterton (Department of Sociology) and Márton Fabók

14.15 – 14.40

Marit Toftaker (Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Will future car users drive electric?
Reviewers: Elizabeth Shove (Department of Sociology) and Andrea Ghelfi

14.40 – 15.00

Discussion

15.00 – 15.15

Coffee break

15.15 – 15.40

Mette Kragh-Furbo (Department of Sociology, Lancaster University)
Making Raw Data
Reviewers: Richard Tutton (Department of Sociology) and Satya Savitzky

15.45 – 16.10

Selina Ellis Gray (HighWire, Lancaster University)
When designing remains: Inquires into death, loss and spectral anomalies online
Reviewers: Allison Hui (Department of Sociology) and Helen Pritchard

16.10 – 16.25

Discussion

16.30 – 17.15

Alumni talk by Dr Jeffrey Keefer (New York University)             

 

FRIDAY 10TH JANUARY
LOCATION: Charles Carter A19

09.00 – 09.30

Coffee/tea with pastries

09.30 – 09.55

Joann Wilkinson (Department of Sociology, Lancaster University)
Articulating Sex through ovulation monitoring
Reviewers: Yvonne Latham (Management School) and Peter Fuzesi

10.00 – 10.25

Peter Fuzesi (Department of Sociology, Lancaster University)
Configuring the normate or catching the phantom?
Reviewers: Celia Roberts (Department of Sociology) and Joann Wilkinson

10.25 – 10.45

Discussion

10.45  – 11.10

Coffee break

11.00 – 11.25

Steve Wright (Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University)
Of the standards of taste and other assessments
Reviewers: James Faulconbridge (Management School) and Derly Yohanna Sánchez

11.30 – 11.55

Derly Yohanna Sánchez  (Organisation, Work and Technology, Lancaster University)
Tasting Trust: Coffee, standards and the reshaping of sustainability
Reviewers: Lucy Suchman (Department of Sociology) and Steve Wright

11.55 – 12.15

Discussion

12.15  – 13.30

Lunch

13.30 – 13.55

Helen Pritchard (HighWire, Lancaster University)
Making Casper: the touching touble of transgenic fish
Reviewers: Lucy Suchman (Department of Sociology) and Selina Ellis Gray

14.00 – 14.25

Felipe Raglianti (Department of Sociology, Lancaster University)
Screening money more responsibly? ATMs and bitcoins         
Reviewers: David Tyfield (Department of Sociology) and Manu Brüggeman

14.25 – 14.40

Discussion

14.40 – 15.00

Coffee break

15.00 – 16.30

Closing talk by Prof Brian Wynne  (Department of Sociology, Lancaster University)

Responsibilities, Rifts and Resonances: Normativities, Technosciences and STS

 

 

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