Dr. Susanne Bauer is a post-doctoral researcher
at Medical Museion and member of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. Her main areas of research
are science studies and epidemiology. A selected list of her publications
includes: Umwelt, Gene, Gender.
Multiplikationseffekte im Umfeld der Genomforschung ("Environment, Genes,
Gender: Effects of Multiplication in the Field/Environment of Genome Research"), NTM Internationale Zeitschrift für
Geschichte und Ethik der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 14 (2006), pp.
241-250; The Population as a
Laboratory--Epistemic and visual cultures of epidemiology, 1955-2005,
Årsskrift for Medicinsk Museion 2006, 3. årgang: 24-34.
http://www.museion.ku.dk/ommuseion/medarbejdere/bauer.
aspx
Prof. Dr. Stefan Beck is a professor of
European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin.
His research is focused on the anthropology of life sciences, knowledge and
technology, as well as on a comparative perspective on genetics in everyday
life. Publications include:
Umgang mit Technik. Kulturelle Praxen und kulturwissenschaftliche
Forschungskonzepte (“Dealing with Technology. Cultural Practices and
Cultural Studies Research Concepts”
), Berlin
1997, Akademie Verlag;
Alt sein –
entwerfen, erfahren. Ethnographische Erkundungen von Lebenswelten älterer
Menschen (“Being Old – Designing, Experiencing. Ethnographic Explorations
of the Lifeworlds of Older People”). Berlin 2005;
Enacting Genes – Anmerkungen zu Familienplanung und genetischen
Screenings in Zypern (“Enacting Genes – Observations on Family Planning and
Genetic Screening in Cyprus”); In: Sigrid Graumann, Katrin Grüber (ed..):
Biomedizin im Kontext (= Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft, Bd. 3). Münster 2006, pp. 221–237;
Medicalizing Culture(s) or Culturalizing
Medicine(s)? The Career and Careening of a Perspective. In: Regula Valerie
Burri, Joe Dumit (eds.): Medicine as Culture – Cultural Studies of Medicine. London: Routledge.
http://www.repraesentationen.de/site/lang__de/3951/default.aspx
Sven Bergmann is a cultural anthropologist and a Ph.D. student in the DFG post-graduate program Gender as a Category of Knowledge at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His current research project is concerned with multi-sited-ethnographic research of economics, significances and
practices of gamete donation in Europe. Research takes place in European
infertility clinics as places where human and non-human actors such as
biomedicine, bio-capital, national and international patients, gamete
donors and germ cells meet, and thus interact in such different fields
such as medical knowledge, gender, kinship, law etc. Former research
topics include: transnational migration, urban planning/gentrification
and surveillance technologies. Publications include:
Global Heimat.
Ethnografische Recherchen im transnationalen Frankfurt, ed. with Regina
Römhild, Frankfurt/Main 2003;
Anti-Nomadische Mobilität - Das hessische
Projekt Elektronische Fußfessel als Überwachung und Inszenierung von "Normalität" in: Zurawski, Nils: Sicherheitsdiskurse: Angst, Kontrolle
und Sicherheit in einer gefährlichen Welt, Frankfurt/Main 2007
http://www2.hu-berlin.de/gkgeschlecht/stip.php#SvenB
Prof. Dr. Geoffrey C. Bowker is executive director
and Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor at the Center for Science, Technology and
Society at Santa Clara
University. He was previously professor and
chairman at the Department of Communication, University
of California
at San Diego.
He has written a book with Leigh Star on the history and sociology of medical classifications (
Sorting
Things Out: Classification and Practice
– published by MIT Press in September 1999). This book looks at the classification
of health care, diseases, viruses, and race. His main research interests are in the field of
classification and standardization, particularly their role in the development
of scientific cyberinfrastructure. Bowker’s most recent book,
Memory Practices in Science, looks at formal and informal
recordkeeping in science over the past two hundred years and includes an
extensive discussion about biodiversity informatics. It was published by MIT
Press in 2006. More information, including a number of publications and links
to his current research, can be found at:
http://epl.scu.edu/~gbowker
Dr. Christina Brandt is a research scholar
at the Max Planck Institute for Science History (MPIWG-MPIfSH) in Berlin. As a member of
the research group "The Cultural History of Heredity" at the MPIWG/MPIfSH, she focuses on the comparative study of the
history of cloning in life sciences and science-fiction literature. A selected
list of her publications includes:
Metapher
und Experiment. Von der
Virusforschung zum genetischen Code ("Metaphor and Experiment. Virology of
the Genetic Code"), Wallstein 2004;
A, T, C, G. Das 'Buch der Natur' (“A, T,
C, G. The ‘Book of Nature’”) In: Tyradellis, Daniel; Friedlander, Michael S.
(Pub.): 10 + 5 = Gott : die Macht der Zeichen, catalog of the exhibition '10 +
5 = Gott. Die Macht der Zeichen', Berlin, Jüdisches Museum, 25 February to 27
June, 2004, DuMont.
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/members/brandt
Dr. Jeanette Edwards is a senior lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences,
at the University
of Manchester. She has
been a visiting professor at the University
of Balamand, Beirut
(2007), at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
(2006), at the Universidad Autonoma, Barcelona
(1998), and at the Women’s Studies Program at the University
of California, Berkeley (1998). Her research focuses on
kinship and assisted reproductive technologies. Recently, she directed a
collaborative EU-funded project on Public Understanding of Genetics (PUG). Publications include:
Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New
Reproductive Technologies in England, Oxford: Oxford University
Press 2000;
Kinship Matters: European Cultures of Kinship in the Age of
Biotechnology,
Oxford; Berghahn Books (in press, co-editor with Carles Salazar);
'Creativity' in English Baptist
understandings of assisted and assisting conception In: Hallam, E. &
Ingold, T. (eds):
Creativity
and Cultural Improvisation, Oxford: Berg (in press).
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/socialanthropology/about/staff/edwards/
Dr. Eric J. Engstrom is a research associate with the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry. His areas of research include the history of psychiatry, history of human sciences, history of professions, university history, and historiography. A selected list of his publications includes: "
On the Question of Degeneration"
, History of Psychiatry 18.3 (2007): pp. 389-404; "
Die Ökonomie klinischer Inskription: Zu diagnostischen und nosologischen Schreibpraktiken in der Psychiatrie"
, ("The Economy of Clinical Inscription: On the Diagnostic and Nosological Practices of Writing in Psychiatry") In: Psychographien, edited by Cornelius Borck & Armin Schäfer, pp. 219-240. Zurich: Diaphenes, 2005.
Dr. Bernd Gausemeier is a postdoctoral
research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Science History (MPIWG/MPIfSH).
As a member of the research group 'The Cultural History of Heredity' at the
MPIWG/MPIfSH, he focuses on the intersections of genealogy and the development
of human genetics in Germany
between 1850 and 1950. A selected list of his publications includes:
Natürliche Ordnungen und politische
Allianzen : biologische und biochemische Forschung an Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
1933–1945 ("Natural Orders and Political Alliances: Biological and
Biochemical Research at Kaiser Wilhelm
Institutes between 1933 and 1945") Wallstein-Verlag 2005;
Molding
National Research Systems: The Introduction of Penicillin to Germany and France
(published in Osiris 20 (2005),with Jean-Paul Gaudillière).
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/de/mitarbeiter/members/bgausemeier
Rene Gerrets, a doctoral candidate at New York University, is affiliated
with the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology. Building on a background
in laboratory science, Gerrets’ doctoral research investigates the recent
proliferation of so-called public-private partnerships (PPPs). These
transnational assemblages of Northern/Southern, public/private sector ‘partner’
organizations have become major conduits for resources, ideas, and technologies
in the fight against diseases of poverty in low-income countries. Through an
ethnographic study of a Tanzania-based malaria partnership, Gerrets examines
the underlying assumptions of PPPs and the forms of authority, power, and
governance that these entities promote and undermine. Selected publications
include:
“Emergence of smooth muscle cell
endothelin B-mediated vasoconstriction in lambs with experimental congenital
heart disease and increased pulmonary blood flow.” Circulatio108: 1646-54 ,
Gerrets R. et al. 2003.
“Nitric
oxide-endothelin-1 interactions after acute ductal constriction in fetal lambs”
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 282: H862-71, Gerrets R. et al. 2002.
Dr. Stefan Hesper is an assistant
professor for German philology at Ruhr
University in Bochum. He studied German and philosophy in Bochum and Berlin.
His dissertation (1993) was published under the title Schreiben ohne Text. Die
prozessuale Ästhetik von G. Deleuze und F. Guattari, ("Writing Without
Text. The processual
aesthetics of G. Deleuze and F. Guattari"), Opladen 1994. As a postdoctoral student
he attended graduate school at the University of Siegen in the research group ‘Intermediality’ and graduated in 2000
with his postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) on the simultaneous aesthetics of
German contemporary literature, Orte des
Übergangs ("Spaces of Transition").
He has written papers and encyclopedia articles on Gilles Deleuze, the
aesthetics of memory, remembrance in literature, (Jorge Semprun, Robert
Antelme), film and on the topic of shame (G.-A. Goldschmidt).
http://www.uv.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pvz-planung/i3v/00032900/02392422.htm
Dr. Axel Hüntelmann is a research
associate with the Department for the History of Medicine at the Charité, Berlin. He studied
history and political science at Humboldt
University in Berlin. His main area of research is the
history of medical sciences. He received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the
Reichsgesundheitsamt (‘Reich’s health office’) between 1876 and 1933. He also
conducted research on the production and state regulation of vaccines and
serums between 1890 and 1933. Currently he is working on the biography of Paul
Ehrlich and on his postdoctoral thesis, which looks at the history
(archaeology) of growth (1750-1950).
Dr. Eva Johach is a postdoctorate in
affiliation with the research training group 'Gender as a Category of
Knowledge' at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her main areas of research are
cultural science studies, the history of nature, and the history of gender, as
well as the cultural scienctific research of medical conditions and social
pathologies. Her current research project looks at the sex/gender of social
insects. Publications by Eva Johach include:
Der Bienenstaat. Geschichte eines politisch-moralischen Exempels ("The
Bee Colony. The History of a political and moral Example")
, In: von der Heiden, Anne/ Vogl, Joseph (pub.): Politische
Zoologie, Diaphanes Verlag Berlin 2007, pp. 75–89.
Maren Klotz received her M.Sc.
from the Genomics in Society Program at the University of Exeter and is now a
Ph.D. student at the Department for European Ethnology at Humboldt University
in Berlin as well as a research associate with the joint research project 'Kinship
as a Social Practice and Representation within the Context of Social Change and
the Transformation of Reproductive-Technology'. Selected publications include:
Globale Verwandtschaft ("Global
Kinship") and
Doing Kinship in British
Parliament: Selfish parents – disruptive children?, Both published in: Verwandtschaft machen. Adoption
und Neue Reproduktionstechnologien in Deutschland und der Türkei. Berliner
Blätter. Ethnologische und ethnographische Beiträge, Bd. 42, 2007.
Dr. Michi Knecht is a researcher and lecturerer at the Department of European Ethnology at the Humboldt
University in Berlin. She is a co-director of the research
project 'Kinship as Social Practice and Representation' (SFB 640, together with
Dr. Stefan Beck) and member of the executive board of the 'Collaboratory Social
Anthropology and Life Sciences'. Her main areas of research are new
reproductive technologies and kinship, the anthropology of life sciences, and
urban spectacles of difference. A selected list of publications includes:
Zwischen Religion,
Biologie und Politik. Eine
kulturanthropologische Analyse der Lebensschutzbewegung ("Between Religion,
Biology, and Politics. A Cultural Anthropological Analysis of the
Pro-Life Movement in Germany")
Lit-Verlag 2006;
Verwandtschaft machen. Neue Reproduktionstechnologien und Adoption
in Deutschland und der Türkei ("Making Kinship. New Reproductive Technologies and Adoption in Germany and Turkey") Berliner Blätter. Bd.
42 2007;
Plausible Vielfalt. Wie der
Karneval der Kulturen denkt, lernt, und Kultur schafft. ("Feasible Diversity. How the Carneval of
Cultures Thinks, Learns and Creates Culture"), Panama-Verlag Berlin,
2005, with Levent Soysal).
has studied Psychology in Greece,
France, and Germany.
His dissertation,
Fabricating Human Development. The Dynamics of 'Ordering' and 'Othering'
in an Experimental Secondary School (Freie Universität / Free University in
Berlin, 2007) brings together cultural psychology, anthropology of childhood,
and science and technology studies. He is currently working in the subproject 'Bodies
and Knowledge in Cardiovascular Prevention Programmes - a Symmetrical
Investigation of Representations and Materiality', of the research cluster 'Preventive
Self' at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt
University in Berlin. Publications include:
Das Alltagswissen von Jugendlichen über Zeit
in der Schule: von stillstehenden Uhren, aufeinander folgenden Blocks u. a.
bildlichen Metaphern, ("The Everyday Knowledge of Young People about Time in
School: motionless clocks, continuous cubes and other pictorical metaphors")
In: Maria Benites & Bernd Fichtner
(eds), Vom Umgang mit Differenz. Globalisierung und Regionalisierung im
interkulturellen Diskurs. Oberhausen:
Athena, 2006, with Pourkos, Marios; (2007); Fabrication of Times and
Micro-Formation of Discourse at a Secondary School [88 paragraphs]. Forum
Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [On-line
Journal], 8(1), Art. 11. Available at:
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-07/07-1-11-e.htm,
(forthcoming)
Prof. Tanja Michalsky studied art history,
philosophy and German. In her postdoctoral thesis Projection and Imagination (2004) she examines how geography and
landscape painting in the Netherlands
influence each other. In 2004/2005 she was a research professor at the Italian Academy
for Advanced Studies at Columbia University in New
York with the project ‘Topology of Memory’. Since
April 2007 she has been a professor of art history at the University
of Arts in Berlin (UdK). Her main areas of expertise
and research are the relationship between media representation and the
self-conception of social groups and the epistemological background of
collective imagination. Selected publications include: Die Repräsentation einer beata stirps. Darstellung und Ausdruck an den
Grabmonumenten der Anjous, (The Representation of a beata stirps. Portrayal and Expression at the
grave monuments of Anjou“)
In: Die Repräsentation der Gruppen. Texte – Bilder –Objekte, published by
Andrea von Hülsen-Esch und Otto Gerhard Oexle, Göttingen 1998, pp. 187-224;
CONIVGES IN VITA CONCORDISSIMOS NE MORS QVIDEM IPSA DISIVNXIT. Zur Rolle der Frau im genealogischen System
neapolitanischer Sepulkralplastik (On the Role of Women in the Genealogical
System of Sepulchral Scuplture in Naples),
In: Marburger Jahrbuch 32 (2005), pp. 73-91.
http://194.95.94.38/index.php?cSID=3c411c5488d45a1ed445ac51ba1b6ce9&ELEMENT=29083
Dr. Staffan Müller-Wille is a research fellow at the Center for Genomics in Society at the University of Exeter. As fellow of the Arts and
Humanities Council (AHRC) he worked on the cultural history of heredity in
close cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Science History (MPIWG/MPIfSH)
in Berlin. Among other subjects, his research
dedicates itself to the historical epistemology of natural history research
exemplified by Carl von Linné (1707-78), text, image and diagram in classical
natural history, and the cultural history of heredity. Publications
include:
Heredity Produced. At the
Crossroads of Biology, Politics and Culture, 1500-1870 (MIT Press 2007,
published with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger);
From
Linnaean Species to Mendelian Factors: Elements of Hybridism, 1751-1870
(In: Annals of Science Vol. 64/2, 171-215) and
Early Mendelism and the subversion of taxonomy: Epistemological
obstacles as institutions (In: Studies in History and Philosophy of
Biological and Biomedical Sciences Vol. 36/3, 465-487).
http://www.centres.ex.ac.uk/egenis/staff/mueller-wille/index.phpDr. Jörg Niewöhner
studied environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK, and received his Ph.D. in risk
research in 2001. After working on issues of risk communication, regulation and
bioethics at the Centre for Environmental Risk, UK, and the Max Delbrueck
Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin Buch, Germany, he moved to the Humboldt
University in Berlin in 2004 to coordinate the laboratory ‘Social Anthropology
and Life Sciences’. His work focuses on the intersections between science and
technology studies, social anthropology and critical medical anthropology. He
has led the research cluster ‘Preventive Self’ with Dr. Stefan Beck since 2007,
working specifically on questions of the entanglement of knowledge practices
and lived bodies in the life sciences. Recent publications include: Beck, S.
and J. Niewöhner (2006). "Somatographic
investigations across levels of complexity." Journal of BioSocieties
1(2): 219-227; Lipphardt, V. and J.
Niewöhner (2007). "Producing
difference in an age of biosociality. Biohistorical
narratives, standardisation and resistance as translations", Science, Technology &
Innovation Studies 3(1): pp. 45-66;
Niewöhner, J. (2007). "Die
Produktion von Patienten im Zeitalter der Biosozialität. (The Production of Patients in Times of
Bio-Sociality)" In: Kreuzzug gegen die Fette. Sozial-wissenschaftliche
Aspekte des gesellschaftlichen Umgangs mit Adipositas. F. Schorb and H.
Schmidt-Semisch (Hg.). Wiesbaden, VS Verlag.
http://www2.hu-berlin.de/ethno/reload.html?seiten/institut/mitarbeiter/niewoehner.htm
Sonja Palfner is a political
scientist and a Ph.D. student in the post-graduate program 'Gender as a
Category of Knowledge' at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is a member of
the scientific advisory board at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender
Studies at Humboldt University. Her research combines science
studies and science history. Currently, she is studying the role of breast
cancer genes in research and medicine in Germany. Publications include:
Werkzeug Aussage – Ein
politikwissenschaftlicher Versuch (Statement as a Tool – A politicological
Attempt)
In: Kerchner, Brigitte/
Schneider, Silke (pub.): Foucault: Diskursanalyse der Politik, VS Verlag 2006,
210-230.
Dr. Ohad S. Parnes is a research
associate with the project ‘Legacy/Heritage, Inheritance, Heredity. Concepts of
Tradition between Nature and Culture within Historical Change’ at the Center
for Literature and Culture Research (ZfL) in Berlin. Analyzing the concept of
generation is one of his primary areas of research. Current projects deal with
this concept as well as the narrative, temporal, and biological construction of
genealogy and heritage/legacy, inheritance and heredity. Publications inlcude:
Generation. Zur
Genealogie des Konzepts – Konzepte von Genealogie (Generation. The Genealogy of the Concept –
Concepts of Genealogy.) Fink 2005, ed. with Sigrid Weigel, Ulrike Vedder und
Stefan Willer;
Zum Konzept der Generation.
Eine Begriffs- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, ("On the Concept of Generation. A
History of the Term and a History of the Science"), (to be published with Ulrike Vedder and Stefan Willer).
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is a professor at the
Department of Anthropology of Columbia University in New York.
As a cultural and legal anthropologist she works to develop a critical
theory of late liberalism in colonial and post-colonial settlements in Australia and the United States. Her analysis is thereby centered around
politics of acknowledgement and difference. Publications include: Labor's Lot: The Power History and Culture of
Aboriginal Action
(The University of Chicago Press 1994); The
Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous
Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (Duke University
Press 2002) and The Empire of Love:
Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Duke University
Press 2006).
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/anthropology/fac-bios/povinelli/faculty.html
Dr. Elvira Scheich is a senior
lecturer at the Insitute for Social Sciences and historical-political Education
at the Technological University of Berlin. Her current research interests
include gender studies, science studies and social theory. Recent work focuses
on the transfer of social nature-relations and the scientification of gender
relations. She was recently a guest professor with the GenNa program at the
Center for Gender Studies at the University of Uppsala. Selected publications
include:
"Objektivität, Perspektivität und Gesellschaft. Zum Verhältnis von
soziologischer Theorie und Wissenschaftsforschung" ("Objectivity,
Perspectivity and Society. Towards a balance of sociological theory and
scientific research.") In: Gender Studies. Wissenschaftstheorien und
Gesellschaftskritik, pub. Therese Frey Steffen, Caroline Rosenthal and Anke
Vaeth, Würzburg 2004, S. 83-95. ;"
Frauen
und Männer in der TechnoScience? Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft
und Gesellschaft", ("Women and Men in the TechnoScience? Observations
on the relationship of Science and Society") In: Naturverhältnis,
Geschlechterverhältnis. Feministische
Auseinandersetzungen und Perspektiven in der Umweltsoziologie, pub. Andreas
Nebelung, Angelika Poferl und Irmgard Schultz, Opladen 2001, S. 75-101.
Vermittelte Weiblichkeit. Feministischen
Wissenschafts- und Gesellschaftstheorie ("Transferred Femininity. Feminist
Science and Social Theory") Hamburg: Hamburger Edition 1996.
Dr. des. Martina Schlünder is a research
associate with the Institute of Medical History at the University of Gießen and the McGill University of
Montreal as part of a project (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) that
looks at the human-animal relationship in bio-medicine. Within her research,
she mainly focuses on the history of reproductive medicine in Germany and on the intersections with the demographic
policy of the national-socialist regime. She is co-editor of the 'Ludwig-Fleck-Studien'.
A selected list of her publications includes:
Die Herren der Regel/n? Gynäkologen
und der Menstruationskalender als Regulierungsinstrument der weiblichen Natur ("Gynacologists
and the menstrual calendar in the regulation of feminine nature")
In: Borck Cornelius/ Hess Volker/
Schmidgen, Henning: Mass und Eigensinn, Versuche im Anschluß an Georges
Canguilhem, Fink 2005, 157-195;
Flüchtige
Körper, instabile Räume, widersprüchliche Theorien: die produktive Vagheit der
Erkenntnistheorie Ludwik Flecks und die Geschichte der Reproduktionsmedizin ("Transient
Bodies, Instable Spaces, Conflicting Theories: The Productive Vagueness of
Ludwik Fleck’s Epistemology and the History of Reproductive Medicine"), In:
Tatsache – Denkstil – Kontroverse: Auseinandersetzungen mit Ludwik Fleck, pub. Rainer Egloff, Collegium Helveticum
Heft 1, Zürich 2005, 57-62.
Dr. Skúli Sigurdsson is a visiting
professor with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Being a historian of science and
technology, he is currently looking at the implementation of the health
database law in Iceland. His research mainly focuses on
science history since 1800 (math, physics, philosophie), electrification, technological
systems and displays of technology in museums. He is also working on the
history of reproductive medicine. Publications include: Yin-Yang Genetics, or the HSD deCODE Controversy In: New Genetics
and Society, 20:2 (2001), 103-117; Bioethics
Lite: Two Aspects of the Health Sector Database deCODE Controversy In:
Hornschuh, Tillmann/ Meyer, Kirsten/ Rüve, Gerlind/ Voß, Miriam (pub.): Schöne--Gesunde--Neue--Welt?
Das humangenetische Wissen und seine Anwendungen aus philosophischer,
soziologischer und historischer Perspektive, Bielefeld 2002.
http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~sksi/
Dr. Stefan Sperling is a lecturer at the
Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He completed his Ph.D. with Princeton’s Department of Anthropology. His
dissertation,
Science and Conscience:
Stem Cells, Bioethics, and German Citizenship, examines bioethics as an
ethnographic object. In fieldwork with a bioethics commission advising the
German parliament and an anthropological re-reading of German history through the
analytical lenses of transparency and conscience, his work demonstrates that
bioethics in present-day Germany is in part the result of culturally specific
relations between the state and its citizens. The state is engaged in the
project of shaping itself as morally legitimate, and it remakes its citizenry,
as well as its scientists, to conform to collectively recognized standards of
virtue. The work further shows how this state-making project is deeply
entangled with debates over the ethics of stem cell research and regulation.
Relevant publications include:
"Managing
Potential Selves: Stem Cells, Immigrants, and German Identity" in Science
and Public Policy, Vol. 31, No. 2 (2004), pp. 139-149;
"Knowledge Rites and the Right Not to Know" in Political and Legal
Anthropology Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2007), pp. 269-287. (In press.)
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/people/fellows/sperling.htm
Prof. Susan Leigh Star is a senior scholar
at the Center for Science, Technology and Society and visiting professor of Computer
Engineering at Santa Clara University. She is also an elected member of
the excecutive council and former president of the Society for the Social
Studies of Science (4S). Her research concentrates on the sociology of science
and technology with a focus on information technology and life sciences. Working
closely with computer scientists, Susan Leigh Star studied the interrelation
between work, organization, and ways of decision-making in scientific
communities as well as the social and moral aspects of information
infrastructure. She is
known for developing the concept of "boundary object". She has
studied museums, biologists, artificial intelligence researchers, nurses, and
the role of amateurs in field research. Publications include: Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its
Consequences (MIT Press 1999, with Geoffrey C. Bowker,); Susan Leigh Star (ed..):
Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics
in Science and Technology (Suny Series in Science, Technology, and
Society), State University of New York Press 1995; Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific
Certainty, 25. edition., Stanford University Press, 1989.
http://www.scu.edu/sts/about/leadership.cfm
Dr. Elisabeth Timm received her Ph.D. in
social sciences in 2001. From 2004 to 2006 she was a research assistant for
Heidi Rosenbaum with the project 'Kinship and Social Security' at the Max
Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. Also since 2004, she has been a
university assistant at the Department of European Ethnology of the University of Vienna. Her latest research
examines family history: "'So kann
man ja nur mit einer Frau umgehen!' Wohlfahrtsstaat, Geschlecht und Ökonomie im
20. Jahrhundert: eine Fallstudie aus Oberschwaben." ("The welfare state, gender and economie in the
20th Century: a case study in Oberschwaben") In: Michaela Fenske, Tatjana
Eggeling (ed.): Geschlecht und Ökonomie. Göttingen 2005, pp.15-45; (with Heidi
Rosenbaum): "Relationship between
family, kin and social security in 20th century Germany." In:
Hannes Grandits (ed.): Eight countries: families and the state during the
century of welfare (Kinship in 21st Century Europe, Vol. 1). London 2007, pp.
99-151 (in print); current research: "Genealogist's
kinship. Social history and cultural anthropology of genealogical research from
the 19th century to the present" (working title).
http://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=15733