Summer Term 2008 Seminars and Symposia
These were held on Wednesdays from 3pm to 5pm, in room V108 (Tower Two).
30 April: Dr Daniel Speich, ETH Zurich
Travelling with the GDP through early development economics' history (abs)
28 May: Professor Charles Stafford, Department of Anthropology, LSE
Anthropological and macroeconomic perspectives on learning & economy in Taiwan (abs)
11 June: Professor Martina Merz, University of Luzern
Facts Revealed and Packaged: Image Travels in Nanoscience (abs)
Mini Symposia in Summer Term 2008
Travelling 'Facts' in Biotechnology
Wednesday 14 May, 3:00 - 5:30 pm
See Poster!
Christopher G. Larminie (GlaxoSmithKline)
'Making the Most of What You've Got: Extracting and Integrating Knowledge from the Universe of Biological Data'
Dr Gísli Pálsson, Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland
Biosocial Relations of Production (abs)
Bio-Security: When 'Facts' Should Not Travel?
Wednesday 18 June, 3:00 - 5:30 pm
See Poster!
Dr Nick Wright, University of Nottingham
Biosecurity and the UK Poultry Industry (abs)
Dr Brian Rappert, University of Exeter
Getting Facts to Travel by Making them Secret; Or Concealment as a Strategy for Revelation (abs)
Lent Term 2008
During Lent Term 2008, the "How Well Do 'Facts' Travel?" project staged a series of seminars. These were held on Wednesdays from 3pm to 5pm, in room V108 (Tower Two). Welcome!
9 January 2008
Dr. Oliver Volckart, Economic History Department, LSE
Information costs and financial market integration in 14th to 16th century Northern Europe? (abs)
23 January 2008
Dr Jim Tomlinson, Department of History, University of Dundee
Re-inventing the "moral economy" in post-war Britain (abs)
6 February 2008
Dr Sabina Leonelli, Economic History Department, LSE
Labels, Vehicles and Packages: Making Facts Travel in Model Organism Biology (abs)
20 February 2008
Dr Ruth McNally, ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University
From Boa Vista to Dunstable: On the circulation of facts in science and forensic science - Case study on DNA profiling (abs)
5 March 2008
Minisymposium: Travelling 'Facts' in Economics [NB: Venue: Y002. Time: 3-6pm]
Dr Peter Rodenburg, University of Amsterdam
The Construction of Representations of the European Economy (abs)
Prof Mary Morgan, LSE and University of Amsterdam
On a Mission: Mutable Mobiles and The Fact/Fiction Relation (abs)
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