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| 16 April 2024 | 17:00 | Egenis has a strong tradition of STS scholarship in conversation with philosophy and history of the life sciences across multiple generations. This extends beyond our home department of SPSPA and in recent years STS has been flourishing at Exeter across many more disciplines, and concerns beyond the life sciences.. Full details | Byrne House | Add event |
| 17 - 19 April 2024 | 9:15 | Marking the 20th anniversary of Egenis, this three-day event will feature an exciting line-up of distinguished international guest speakers, alumni, and current members of Egenis. Speakers will explore some of the key ideas developed at Egenis and their wider impact, as well as looking ahead to the main opportunities and challenges for the interdisciplinary studies of the life sciences in our changing planet. The event will also honour the achievements of Professor John Dupré, co-founder of Egenis and one of the world’s leading philosophers of biology. Full details | XFI Henderson Lecture Theatre | Add event |
| 22 - 23 April 2024 | | This practical-based face to face session will be delivered over two days and will provide you with both the technical programming skills and understanding of data science techniques that you will need to research pre-existing and novel social-political and economic issues and the kind of transferable skills that are currently in demand in the job marker.. Full details | Clayden Computational Lab | Add event |
| 29 April 2024 | 15:30 | Drawing on ethnographic observations in over 290 clinical team meetings and covering a range of conditions from inherited heart disease, cancer, developmental delays and dysmorphia, this paper seeks to explore professional decision making around clinical genomic sequencing. With a specific focus on decisions about a particular kind of ambiguous result – called Variants of Uncertain Significance (VUS) – this paper examines the role of the perceived ‘actionability’ of specific genomic results. The key insight centres on the way in which clinicians’ beliefs about how parents will react to a result feed back into decisions about the status of such ambiguous results, builds on previous STS work around actionability from Nicole Nelson, Alberto Cambrosio and Stefan Timmermans. Full details | Hybrid | Add event |
| 30 April 2024 | 13:00 | The aim is to gently expand physical and spatial awareness in order to stimulate increased embodied thinking, to support more physically present story telling in the future. What (NOT) to expect at the workshop: It will not be lecture/presentation based so active participation is expected and supported. This is not a workshop on creative research methods or about developing presentation skills. There is no charge for the workshop, but spaces are limited, please ensure you can attend the whole of the workshop. Please register for the workshop by completing and submitting the form.. Full details | The Deck, Innovation Centre | Add event |
| 8 May 2024 | 9:30 | The local elections in May are the last set of widespread voting before the next general election. Citizens across the country will elect their local councillors, police and crime commissioners, and in some areas their mayors. Join us for a one-day conference to explore the results of these elections and the significance of local government in the British political system.. Full details | Reed Hall | Add event |
| 8 May 2024 | 10:45 | Managing carbon on-farm. Full details | Byrne House | Add event |
| 13 May 2024 | 15:30 | I review some of the main themes in the book I just published for University of Chicago Press, entitled Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science. I focus in particular on the emergence of the modeling attitude in 19th century science and the claimed use of models in practice, with special emphasis on theoretical models in physics and evolutionary biology. I extract some of the consequences of taking an inferential deflationary approach to modeling and discuss some implications for the realism-antirealism debate. Full details | Hybrid | Add event |
| 20 May 2024 | 15:30 | This talk investigates the emergence of Dutch preventive child health care in the first decades of the twentieth century. It shows that the rise of collective action on this terrain followed from the recognition of “infant mortality” as a public problem—a late nineteenth-century configuration that went hand in hand with the professionalization of paediatrics.. Full details | Hybrid | Add event |
| 22 May 2024 | 10:45 | Environmental land management and the agricultural transition in England, where are we, and why?. Full details | Byrne House | Add event |
| 3 June 2024 | 15:30 | Title, Abstract and registration details to follow. Full details | Hybrid | Add event |
| 10 June 2024 | 15:30 | From spillover diseases to re-emerging infections to rising rates of antimicrobial resistance, microbes have proliferated daily conversation in recent years. These serious and continuing threats to human and nonhuman health fly in the face of triumphalist narratives of epidemiological transition and global disease eradication (Bellamy Foster et al., 2021). The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the extent to which these human-microbial interactions are mediated by ecological change widely construed, from urban and rural land use change driven by global commerce patterns to shifts in internal microbial populations within bodies.. Full details | Hybrid | Add event |
