Events
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| 14 - 16 April 2021 | Conference: The Philosophy of Psychedelics: Exploring Frameworks for Exceptional ExperienceFull details | Online | Add event | |
| 26 April 2021 | 15:30 | EGENIS seminar: "Regulating the Circulation of Knowledge across US Borders: A transnational approach" Prof John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology)This talk will explore the contours of a gray zone of knowledge that is neither classified, nor can circulate freely, and then trace the historical arc of one major instrument – export controls – as mobilized by the U.S. national security state to regulate its movement across national borders. To illustrate the range of regulatory instruments devised, I will then briefly describe how the meaning of fundamental research in biomedicine was recently fashioned by the NIH to bring it within the purview of the national security state. To conclude, I will discuss the interest of a transnational approach to knowledge circulation as a method that can help us to overcome the more or less total absence of any engagement with this gray zone in the scholarly literature. Full details | Online event. | Add event |
| 4 May 2021 | 16:30 | GSE Lecture Series - Dr Sam Friedman (London School of Economics and Political Science)Full details | ZOOM | Add event |
| 5 - 7 May 2021 | Philosophy of Plant Biology WorkshopPlants are very interesting organisms. They implement unique internal processes and modes of interaction with their environments. Needless to say, as the primary harvesters of solar energy they are vital parts of ecosystems. Serious attention to plants provides novel and interesting perspectives on many topics in philosophy of biology, including individuality, organisation, cognition, and disease. For example, the growth of plants requires us to stretch the concept of organism. If vegetative spread, for example via suckers from roots, is counted as mere growth, a forest can be considered a single organism, as is the case with ‘Pando’, a Populus tremuloides forest in Utah. And although there seems to be no centre of the coordination in a plant body as in animals, there is usually a highly-tuned coordination of the body parts that has led some theorists to attribute cognitive capacities to plants.. Full details | Add event | ||
| 5 May 2021 | 16:00 | Routes Event: Precarious protection: Inside Europes Asylum Appeals with Dr Nick GillThis will be an informal talk outlining some of the findings from a set of ethnographies of asylum appeals in France, Germany, the UK, Belgium and Austria conducted over the last few years by researchers at Exeter University as part of the ASYFAIR project. It will examine why asylum appeals are important, but also some of the challenges they encounter on the ground. It will raise concerns about the superficiality and (in)accessibility of legal protection via asylum appeals, and use this to reflect on some of the problematics of refugee protection more broadly. Full details | Teams | Add event |
| 12 May 2021 | 14:00 | When (not) to trust the overlap in confidence intervals: A practical guideDr. Denis Cohen from University of Mannheim is a postdoctoral fellow in the Data and Methods Unit at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). He is also an editor and frequent author at Methods Bites, Blog of the MZES Social Science Data Lab, an event series which he has co-organised since 2018. Full details | Online | Add event |
| 17 May 2021 | 15:30 | EGENIS seminar: "Making up publics: configuring expertise, knowledge and ignorance in environmental research", Prof Judith Green (University of Exeter)This paper takes an example from a field where scientific knowledge is emergent and uncertain - the health impacts of artificial light at night – to explore how knowledge and ignorance are mobilised to create publics. Artificial light at night has become a matter of political, environmental and public health concern, as urban administrations across the world seek to reduce carbon emissions and costs by using emergent LED and smart technologies to manage street lighting. In doing so, these administrations interact with civil society and academic groups concerned by the impacts of light pollution on the ecosystem and human experiences of the night sky. However, urban light at night is not just a technological accomplishment and light pollution risk: providing it is intricately tied to the histories of city governance, and the making of modern spaces of security and safety. Full details | Online event. | Add event |