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Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou, PhD, is a Professor in Psychodynamic Neuroscience at University College London. Her lab focuses on topics and disorders that lie at the borders between neurology and psychology, funded initially by a Starting Investigator Grant ‘Bodily Self’ and more recently a Consolidator grant ‘METABODY’ from the European Research Council. Katerina is the founder of IASAT and the editor of the volume: Fotopoulou, A., Conway, M.A., Pfaff, D. From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, 2012. In 2016, Katerina was awarded the prestigious Early Career Award of the International Neuropsychology Society. See here for further projects and publications.
ESOP seminar. Torfinn Harding is Professor of Economics at University of Stavanger. He will present the paper: "Commodity Prices and Robust Environmental Regulation: Evidence from Deforestation in Brazil" (pdf).
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, billions of public monies are poured into high tech solutions. This panel will highlight the role of local public health systems, particularly the challenges in Africa and Latin America, and the US.
Jim Porter is a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre in the Department of History at Uppsala University. His work has appeared in Isis, History of Science and Multiethnica and his current research project is funded by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation. Dr. Porter is interested in social and scientific constructions of “intelligence” and how such beliefs and theories were put to work in educational policy in the interwar and post-WWII United States.
Dr Rebecca Fiebrink, Reader at the University of the Arts London Creative Computing Institute, will give a seminar on "Machine learning as (Meta-) instrument".
Welcome to an informal webinar discussion with Professor Anthony Giddens on the combined challenges of digitalization, robotization and Covid-19.
Angela Saini is visiting the Science Studies Colloqium Series. Saini has a Masters degree in Engineering from Oxford University and was a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, New Humanist, and she regularly presents science programmes on BBC radio. Saini has won awards from the Association of British Science Writers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was also named European Science Writer of the Year.
The seminar is open for everyone!
Prof. Dr. Staffan Müller-Wille and Prof. Dr. Elena Esayev are visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series to discuss their current research project.
Müller-Wille is University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor at the University of Lübeck. His research covers the history of the life sciences from the early modern period to the early twentieth century, with a focus on the history of natural history, anthropology, and genetics. Müller-Wille has one other ongoing research project at this time: In the Shadow of the Tree: The Diagrammatics of Relatedness as Scientific, Scholarly, and Popular Practice.
Prof. Dr. Elena Isayev is Professor of Ancient History and Place at the University of Exeter. Her work addresses questions of migration, belonging, displacement, encounter, politics of exception and spatial perception from a longue durée perspective that includes current concerns. Isayev's other current project is Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts: A Global Crossdisciplinary Collaboration.
The seminar is open for everyone, and the main lecture will be recorded and posted on this page.
Jack Wright is a research associate at the University of Cambridge and a current visiting researcher at the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences. Jack’s research focusses on the social organisation of science, on the relationship between social scientific knowledge and politics, and on quantitative causal inference in the social sciences.
In this webinar, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik maps out global trends in 'Covid-19 law', including criminal law, welfare legislation and the human rights framework, with a view to draw out key lessons for global health.
Will digital innovations introduced during the crisis lead to more digital surveillance post-pandemic? Does their use advance the interests of private tech companies at the expense of the public interest?
What are drivers, transitions and pathways out of Venezuela’s crisis?
Robert A. Aronowitz is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Aronowitz is the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and chair, History and Sociology of Science, at the University of Pennsylvania. His main areas of research are the history of 20th century disease, epidemiology, and population health.
The seminar is open for everyone!
When a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is developed, will it be a “peoples vaccine” produced in time and scale, affordably priced, and available for all countries and all people?
Terrence W. Deacon is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.
The seminar has been cancelled because of the increasing health safety concerns about COVID 19.
What underlying logics, interests and evidence have fed into the Norwegian response to the covid-19 pandemic both in Norway and globally? Please join us for this webinar with Frode Forland, Specialist Director at the Norwegian Public Health Institute.
Just about the only thing we can all agree on these days is that we are, around the world, swimming in untruth. But how did we get to this point? And is the problem really new?
The mini symposium, organised by Nikolina Sekulic, will take place via Zoom.
The talk has been cancelled because of the increasing health safety concerns about COVID 19 and related travel restrictions.
In this talk, Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley) and Roger Antonsen (UiO) discuss their interdisciplinary collaboration and their explorations of networks, specifically network transformations.
Canceled due to the Corona pandemic
Liliana Doganova is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Doganova teaches at Ecole des Mines and PSL. Her research lies at the intersection of economic sociology and STS (Science and Technology Studies), and explores market construction processes and valuation devices. She is currently preparing a monograph on the historical sociology of discounting.
The seminar is open for everyone!
ESOP seminar. Kurt Mitman is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He will present the paper: “The Curious Incidence of Shocks Along the Income Distribution”. Coauthored by Tobias Broer and John Kramer.