| Program - Monday, June
11 |
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| 09:00 |
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Introduction to the Conference:
Life, Participation, and Governance |
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Herbert Gottweis
(Department of Political Science, University of
Vienna) |
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| 09:30 |
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Governing Life? Therapeutic
and Research Applications of Human Stem Cells -
Where are we? |
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Stephen Minger
(Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, Wolfson Centre for
Age-Related Diseases,
King's College London) |
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| 10:15 |
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Coffee Break |
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| 10:30-12:15 |
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Stem
Cell Governance: Emerging Patterns |
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Life Governed: The Neoliberal
Moral Economy of Embryonic Stem Cells in India |
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Aditya Bharadwaj
(School of Social and Political Studies,
University of Edinburgh) |
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Regenerating Italy: Governing
stem cell research in Italy |
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Ingrid Metzler
(Department of Political Science, University of
Vienna) |
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Stem Cell
Governance in the United Kingdom: A Democratic Approach
towards
an Emotional Subject? |
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Herbert Gottweis
(Department of Political Science, University of
Vienna) |
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Discussants: |
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Giuseppe Testa
(European School of Molecular Medicine/Laboratory
of Stem Cell Epigenetics/
European Institute of Oncology, Milano) |
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Dame Suzi Leather
(Charity Commission, UK) |
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| 12:15-13:30 |
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Lunch Break |
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| 13:30 |
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Participatory
Governance: Putting Innovation into Practice |
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Ralph Hallo
(European Environmental Bureau/Stichting Natuur
en Milieu - The Netherlands Society
for Nature and Environment) |
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| 14:00-15:30 |
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GMO Governance |
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Regulating
GMOs: the contested role of science and the public |
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GMOs and
the contested construction of European space |
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Bronislaw Szerszynski
(Centre for the Study of Environmental Change,
Department of Sociology,
Lancaster University) |
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Locating
the public in the governance of GMOs |
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Larry Reynolds
(Centre for the Study of Environmental Change,
Department of Sociology,
Lancaster University) |
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Participatory
practices in the governance of GMOs in Aotearoa/New
Zealand:
A critical assessment |
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Rosemary Du
Plessis (School of Sociology and Anthropology,
University of Canterbury) |
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Discussants: |
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Richard
Hindmarsh (Griffith School of
Environment, Griffith University, Brisbane) |
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Javier Lezaun
(Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought
Amherst College, Amherst) |
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| 15:30-16:00 |
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Coffee Break |
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| 16:00-17:00 |
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Life under Threat: Nuclear
Governance |
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The Post-Chernobyl Society:
from Cultural Trauma towards New Modes of
Nuclear Governance in Central and Eastern Europe |
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Leonardas Rinkevicius
(Kaunas University of Technology,
Lithuania) |
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Russia, the European Union
and the New Governance of Atomic Energy |
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Paul Josephson
(Department of History, Colby College) |
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Discussant: |
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Bronislaw Szerszynski
(Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, Department
of Sociology,
Lancaster University) |
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| 17:00-17:30 |
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What is Life Revisited |
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Nikolas Rose
(BIOS Centre, LSE) |
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