News

  „The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice,“ edited by Herbert Gottweis (together with Frank Fischer) has been published by Duke University Press

 
  We welcome our new member, Katharina Paul. Katharina is the PI of the project „The Politicization of HPV vaccinations“, funded by the FWF.
 
  Anna Durnová has been awarded a Hertha-Firnberg-Fellowship by the FWF. She is the PI of the project „Negotiating truth: Semmelweise, Discourse on Hand Hygiene, and the Politics of Emotions".
Forthcoming Events
Invited Talk
Immunization politicized:
The governance of cervical cancer prevention in Austria, England, and the Netherlands
March 18, 2013; 18.30
Konferenzraum (A222), Dept. of Political Science, Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7,
1010 Vienna, 2nd floor
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The interdisciplinary research platform “Life-Science-Governance” (LSG) will address the interrelated topics of governance through and of the life sciences. The Max F. Perutz Laboratories, a joint venture of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, together with other research institutions at the Vienna Biocenter are the leading biological research cluster in Austria, and one of the most renowned in Europe. The research platform will establish interdisciplinary research cooperation between the university institutes at the Vienna Biocenter, and a group of researchers in the Social Sciences Faculty of the University of Vienna to jointly address current challenges of “Life Science Governance”.
 
Last Update 2013-03-13