Ongoing research from Science and Technology Studies (STS) points to the multiplicity of actors, practices and materialities involved in the creation and mobilization of data in biomedical research, in how such data are ‘made’ and become ‘mobile’. At the same time, current discourses regarding future biomedical research, connected as they are to visions about improved healthcare, appear to be inseparable from expectations about intensified data-based practices and digital health. Inspired by recent studies on the production and sharing of data in biobanking research practices, as well as on the ways such practices are positioned within a national, regional and/or global context, this Workshop seeks to offer a venue for sharing and discussing ongoing research on the intensification of digitized and datafied practices in the ever-changing landscape of biomedicine and healthcare, and on the rhetoric that accompanies it.
The Workshop will take place in Athens, Greece, at the Historical Archive of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (45, Skoufa str., 10672 Athens). It is organized in the context of the research project “Contextualizing biobanking in Greece: histories, practices, discourses – BIO-CONTEXT” (2021-24), which is funded by H.F.R.I.
Workshop organizers: Assistant Professor Katerina Vlantoni, Dr George Zoukas and Dr Yulie Foka-Kavallieraki, members of the BIO-CONTEXT research team, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Spring 2022-2023 Lecture/Discussion Series in SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY: BIOSCIENCES, BIOTECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE
Two lectures by
Dr. Alexandru Dincovici, Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest (a CIVIS university) & National University of Political Studies and Public Administration / Research Fellow, New Europe College, Bucharest / Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NKUA (a CIVIS university)
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86003468724?pwd=RzJxb2RYUmRrc2JIY2VlRkpjekJGZz09
In person: Teaching Rooms, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, NKUA
You can find the event flyer, here.
Information/Contact: Aristotle Tympas, Professor, STS Graduate Program Director (tympas[at]phs.uoa[dot]gr)
Professor of International Governance Law School, University of Leeds, UK
"What Is - And Is Not - Wrong with the Pharmaceutical Industry: Towards a Diagnosis and a Prescription"
Friday, November 27, 18:00
The lecture is organized in the context of the course ‘Law, Science, Technology’, Interdepartmental Graduate Program ‘Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies’, Department of History and Philosophy of Science & Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and KApodistrian University of Athens
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87424293743?pwd=WEZQUEdqUHZ5ZkxSUlV6c0xSenByZz09
Organized by (contact): Stathis Arapostathis, Associate Professor (arapost@phs.uoa.gr)
See the lecture's poster, here.
Πρόσκληση στη διαδικτυακή συζήτηση με τίτλο: "Επιστήμη, Τεχνολογία, Πανδημία: Προσεγγίσεις από τις Ανθρωπιστικές και Κοινωνικές Επιστήμες"
Δευτέρα 18 Μαΐου 2020, 19:00 - 21:00
Η συζήτηση θα διεξαχθεί στο πλαίσιο του μαθήματος 'Science Technology Society: Special Topics' (Διδάσκων:Τέλης Τύμπας)
Διατμηματικό Πρόγραμμα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών "Science Technology Society Science and Technology Studies"
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Invitation to the online lecture by Dr. Christos Lynteris "The Epistemological, Political and Aesthetic Emergence of Pandemics"
Tuesday, March 31st 2020, 19:00-20:30
Christos Lynteris is a medical anthropologist, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews. He is Wellcome Investigator Award PI of the project “The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis” (2019-2024). Lynteris was the recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant for the project “Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic” (2013-2018). His recent publications include Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary (Routledge, 2019); Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains: Histories of Non-Human Disease Vectors (ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and The Anthropology of Epidemics (co-ed., Routledge, 2019).
The lecture will be given in the context of the graduate course “Science, Technology, Society: Biosciences, Biotechnology, Medicine”, Graduate Program ‘Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies’, Department of History and Philosophy of Science & Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
The lecture will be delivered through ‘ZOOM meetings’. As there is a limit of 100 attendees, registration is required. Send an email to Dr. Katerina Vlantoni (kvlantoni@phs.uoa.gr) by Monday March 30, 24:00 and you will receive information on the Zoom link and a copy of Christos Lynteris (2018) Plague Masks: The Visual Emergence of Anti-Epidemic Personal Protection Equipment, Medical Anthropology, 37:6, 442-457. Priority will be given to members of the community of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Find the lecture's poster, here.
