Manden, øksen og stævnen - Om subjekt, viden og fremstilling af ting

Fredag 1. juni 13-15
Center for STS-studier
Aarhus Universitet


Oplæg ved:
Anders Emil Rasmussen
Afdeling for Antropologi og Etnografi
Aarhus Universitet

Med baggrund i fire måneders ophold på øen Mbuke i Manus-provinsen i Papua Ny Guinea fortæller Anders Emil Rasmussen om kanobyggeri, økser, stævne og forholdet mellem subjekter viden og ting. Hans tilgang tager udgangspunkt i en ny retning indenfor antropologi kaldet "New Melanisian Ethnography", der argumenterer for, at subjekter og objekter ikke skal ses som adskilte, men søger at konceptualisere deres relationer på andre måder således som det f.eks. sker hos Alfred Gell og Marily Strathern. Hvis man er interesseret, kan man henvende sig til Claus Bossen for at få udleveret baggrundstekster.

Oplysninger fra: sts.imv.au.dk

Cyborg Fish

1st June at 13.30
Meeting room K4.74
Institut for Organisation, CBS
Kilen, Kilevej 14A, 4. sal
2000 Frederiksberg

Oplysninger fra: dasts.dk

Petter Holm, University of Tromsø, presents his research project `Cyborg Fish'. After the presentation there will be time for discussion. For those who are interested, an abstract `The Adventures of a Cyborg Fish' and a paper `Skjønner du tegninga?' can be received upon request from Satu Reijonen, sr.ioa @ cbs.dk.

VED JORDEN AT BLIVE?

Symposium

Lørdag den 9. juni
Studenternes Hus
Ndr. Ringgade
Mødelokale 2
Aarhus Universitet


Program og tilmeldingsblanket kan ses her: Klik

Deltagelse koster 50 kr. (uden frokost og middag), 150 kr. (med frokost, men uden middag) eller 250 kr. (hele symposiet, inklusive frokost og middag).

Tilmelding inden den 1. juni til:
Forskningslektor Kees van Kooten Niekerk
Afdeling for Systematisk Teologi, Det Teologiske Fakultet ved Aarhus Universitet, Bygning 1443, Tåsingegade 3, 8000 Århus C, e-mail: kkn @ teo.au.dk

The 4th European Course on Biotechnology Ethics - an interactive approach

20th-27th of August 2007,
Vilnius
Lithuania

The deadline for submitting applications is June 1st, 2007.

We invite you to visit the official website: biotethics.org which will provide you with and the registration form all the necessary information about the course and application procedure.

The course is organized by the Biotethed consortium.

The course is aimed at Ph.D. students / young researchers of Life Sciences and Humanities.

For any additional information please feel free to contact the local organizer:
Eugenijus Gefenas
Chairman of the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee
Tel. + 370 5 212 4565
E-mail: lbek @ sam.lt

Art and Biomedicine:
Beyond the Body

Monday, 3 September, 2007
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Kongens Nytorv
Copenhagen


Aim:

A one-day symposium about creative visual practices at the frontiers of biomedicine organised by the Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen in partnership with The Schools of Visual Art, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Current biomedicine is a vast complex of invisibles: microscopic entities such as viruses and proteins, difficult concepts such as genomics and proteomics, unwieldy databases of information, and large-scale economic issues such as the practice of pharmaceutical companies in a globalised economy.

The exploratory work of artists in relation to the body, biology and medical practice is increasingly significant to both historians and practitioners of medicine, and artists are beginning to understand the exciting arenas opening up in biotechnology and biomedicine.

Recent biomedical sci-art projects funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Artists-in-Labs project of the Zurich School of Art and Design and the radical initiatives of Critical Art Ensemble among others show a rapidly emerging field of interdisciplinary practice. Artists and designers are skilled conceptualists who can explore these ideas rather than simply `explain' them.

The conference Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body will give voice to the people practicing in this field - artists, biomedical practitioners, exhibition curators, art historians, art teachers and funders will all be speaking. This event will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the life sciences and in biomedicine, fine arts, history and philosophy of science, material and visual culture and anthropology, history of art and aesthetics, and those interested in developing interdisciplinary practices and collaborations.

Organisers:

The Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen is a combined academic unit and medical museum with extensive collections. Our field is the history of health and disease in a cultural perspective, with a focus on the material and iconographic culture of recent biomedicine.
(Our blog: corporeality.net/museion)

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts is a higher arts education institution under the Ministry of Culture offering a six-year MFA programme.

Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body is part funded by BioCampus, one of four research priority areas at the University of Copenhagen covering interdisciplinary research about the way in which biomedicine and biotechnology is developed, applied, regulated and understood in contemporary society.


For further info, see: artandbiomedicine
(after approx. 15 June).

RUC-ILLC Workshop on

Formalizing actions

JUNE 22 2007
Roskilde University


More information on: actionworkshop.html

Registration deadline: June 15, 2007 to phis @ ruc.dk

Questions regarding the workshop can be sent to Martin Mose Bentzen, (mamobe @ ruc.dk).

Organized by Department of Philosophy and Science Studies, Roskilde University, ILLC and PHIS

Speakers:
Ulle Endriss, ILLC
Cedric Degremont, ILLC
Vincent F. Hendricks, RUC
Klaus Frovin Jørgensen, RUC
Stig Andur Pedersen, RUC
Martin Mose Bentzen, RUC


In recent years formalizing actions has become a common theme in formal philosophy and philosophical logic. Understanding actions and agency is important for e.g. dynamic logic, deontic logic and epistemic logic. Actions might be seen as unique or as part of a more general theory of dynamic processes. In this workshop we bring together researchers who formalize actions within dynamic logic, deontic logic, epistemic logic, formal decision theory, temporal logic - and any combination of these.

Stafet-interview med

Luis Emilio Bruni

Titel: Ph.d.; Adjunkt.

Fag: Oprindeligt uddannet som miljøingeniør. Cand. mag. i internationale relationer (fokus på biodiversitet og globalisering), Ph.d. i molekylærbiologisk videnskabsteori. I dag definerer jeg mig mere inden for biologisk videnskabsteori, kognitive systemer, kommunikation, videnskab og natur-kultur-relationer.

Ansættelsessted: Institut for Medieteknologi og Ingeniørvidenskab - Aalborg Universitet (København)


Hvad er den sidste fagrelaterede bog, du har læst?

Narrative in Virtual Reality by Marie-Laure Ryan. This book prompts a systematic discussion about the relations between narrativity, virtuality, inmersion and interactivity in new digital technology and brings an interesting comparison with traditional representational media like literature, painting and other art foms. Concepts like "virtuality" and "immersion" are tackled from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes different philosophical, cognitive-scientific, phenomenological and psychological points of views.


Er der en bog, du vil anbefale?

Kan jeg anbefale en bog til mig selv? Jeg har for nylig læst et kapitel af Hans Jonas The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology og jeg kunne godt tænke mig at snart læse hele bogen. Bare ved at kigge på indekset få man lyst til at læse den. Bogen præsenteres sådan: "Hans Jonas shows how life-forms present themselves on an ascending scale of perception and freedom of action, a scale reaching its apex in a human being's capacity for thought and morally responsible behaviour". (Northwestern University Press, 2001)


Hvad er den mest interessante artikel, du har læst inden for de sidste par måneder?

"The brain's concepts: The role of the sensory-motor system in conceptual knowledge" af Vittorio Gallese og George Lakoff. Det er et rimeligt godt forsøg på at forklare hvordan begreber kan beskrives i neurobiologiske termer. Den er desuden provokerende fordi samtidig skaber nogle problemer som den påstå at løse.


Hvad er den sidste konference, du har været til?

"Human Emotions in Voice and Body: Approaches from the affective sciences and virtual reality", Singapore, december 2006. Det var meget spændende at komme i kontakt med det område der nu hedder "the affective sciences". Især i forhold til de nye interaktive digitale teknologier. Selv om der var "state of the art" viden indenfor det teknologiske felt, synes jeg at der stadigvæk mangler nogle sammenhængende rammer for at relatere de kognitive systemer med de teknologiske. Det giver sikkert mange nye spændende udfordringer.


Er der et eller flere nyhedsbreve eller andre net-aktiviteter, du vil anbefale?

Jeg synes at Project Gutenberg er meget spændende. Den er den første og største samling af elektroniske bøger hvor man kan finde mange klassikere fra hele menneskehedens historie. Lige som wikipedia kan man frivillig hjælpe med at læse korrektur (www.gutenberg.org). KartOO er en meget sjovt "metasearch engine" (som Google) men hvor man kan visualisere hvor personen eller sagen man søger stå i forhold til resten af webbet (www.kartoo.com). Og så jeg er helt vild med Googgle Earth. Den giver magt og kontrol til en nomade som mig.

Er der et eller flere tidsskrifter, du vil anbefale?

Det ved jeg ikke rigtig. Det kommer an på hvad jeg leder efter.


Giv et bud på et centralt spørgsmål for forskningen i dit felt.

Hvordan kan man takle emergensen af semiotisk frihed fra en kognitiv videnskabelig ramme og betragte ting som kreativitet, kunst og kulturelle processer.


Giv et bud på en udbredt misforståelse.

I think that there is a misplaced sense of causality when in biology a particular static picture, of say a DNA expression array, or a low level biochemistry characterisation, is responsible for an observed higher level concomitant process, function or behaviour. Usually the lower process does not precede the higher process, it describes it. As Steven Rose points out, it is usually not a causal statement but and identity statement. The same thing is happening now with a lot of the "new phrenology" that brain imaging is bringing forward. Once the inference system is accepted, massive data sets start being produced without ever questioning again whether it is a causal link or an identity statement that is meant to be established between the state of the substrate and the manifestation of the cognitive process.


Ville du tage imod en tidagestur til månen?

Slet ikke, jeg synes at det forurener for meget at rejse derop. For resten undrer jeg mig meget over at NASA kunne sende en mand til månen i 1969 og de ikke kan gøre det igen i 2007 med nutidens teknologi. Uhmm…


Har du en helt?

Gregory Bateson havde en "imprint" i mig fordi han var en af de første forfattere som rystede min ingeniør positivistisk onto-epistemologi da jeg var ung. Men ikke kun det. Jeg kan hele tiden finde noget inspiration og nye ideer i hans arbejde selvom jeg tit skifter område og fokus. Han stillede rigtig mange spændende spørgsmål som potentielt kan give udgangspunkt til nye forskningslinjer. Uafhængigt af hvilket felt han arbejdede i, var han altid bevidst om sundhed og bæredygtighedsproblematikken. Det synes jeg er et vigtigt bidrag og eksempel til efterfølgelse.

I den virtuelle verden kunne mine helte være nogle af de riddere som Chretien de Troyes fortæller om: Erec, Cligés og Percival … en søgen efter ære, loyalitet og retfærdighed … det som Aristotle kaldte "thymos" …


Hvem vil du give stafetten videre til?

Mette Böll.