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Life at the Margins
International Workshop
November 27-28, Vienna, Austria
Anna Durnová - paper presentation (with Dominique Memmi): “Faire vivre et laisser mourir”: Presentation & comments. Governing through words and contemporary biopolitics.”
Ingrid Metzler - paper presentation: On cells and cadavers: The Italian embryo debates.
Talk in the context of the programme "University meets Public"
November 20, 2006, Vienna, Austria
    Ursula Naue: Behindertenpolitik heute: Zwischen alten Inhalten und neuen Möglichkeiten
[Disability politics andpolicies today: Between old paradigms and new possibilities / in German]
Comparing ELSA
Cross-national dialogue on cultural differences within the ethical, legal, and societal aspects of genomics
November 17-18, Basel, Switzerland
Ursula Naue - paper presentation: Debates and research on ethical, legal and social aspects of genomics –
An Austrian perspective
[together with Herbert Gottweis]
2006 Annual Meeting _ Society for Social Studies of Science [4S]
November 1-5, Vancouver, Canada
Herbert Gottweis - paper presentation: Explaining Hwang-gate: Biotechnology Governance in South Korea
(together with Byoungsoo Kim, Korea University)
    Ursula Naue - paper presentation [Panel 2.2F: Silences: Absent and Present]: Languages of silence, languages of voice: Scientific and other discourses and the construction of disability
Barbara Prainsack - paper presentation: Research populations: Spotlights on biobank governance in Israel
“The Future of ELSA Genomics – An Austrian Perspective”
October 19, 2006, Vienna, Austria
Barbara Prainsack - invited lecture: Defining and distinguishing ELSA from other research fields
GEN-AU Conference “Genomics for Health”
October 15-18, Vienna, Austria
Ursula Naue - poster and paper presentation: Governing Alzheimer’s Disease in Austria – Research and practice between actual state and future hope
Engaging science and society in the ethics of genome research:
analyses, reflections and perspectives
September 21-23, Vienna, Austria
Thomas Streitfellner - poster presentation: Valuable Swiss Cells: The Governance of Stem Cell Research and the Performance of National Identities in a Global Economy
Disability Studies Assocsiation Conference 2006
September 18-20, Lancaster, UK
Ursula Naue - paper presentation [Session D 5]: Disability and aging: Towards new strategies, spaces and practices within an emerging complex political field in Austria
EASST Conference 2006
August 23-26, Lausanne, Switzerland
Ingrid Metzler - paper presentation: The revenge of the sacred embryo: Assessing the regulation of human embryonic stem cell research in Italy
Ursula Naue - paper presentation [Session 4.5, Technologies, enhancements and bodily boundaries]: Enhancing the body - Implications of modern science and technology on the socio-political treatment of "disability"
Barbara Prainsack-paper presentation:
The Boundaries of Humanness: Citizenship and Human Reproductive Cloning
Barbara Prainsack - paper presentation: The conservation of common ground: Spotlights on the biopolitical debate in Austria [together with Robert Gmeiner, Austrian Bioethics Commission]
    Barbara Prainsack - Chairperson and discussant in the panel Global governance of stem cell therapies: policies, practices and moral systems, convened by Ingrid Geesink
Wittenberger Sommerakademie: ÜberLeben -Bioethik in interdisziplinärer Auseinandersetzung [Wittenberg Summerschool: AboutLife - Bioethics in an interdisciplinary discussion]
August 7-13, 2006, Wittenberg, Germany
    Ursula Naue (together with Katrin Grüber, IMEW Berlin) - Workshop chairing: Enhancement - Vorstellungen über Perfektion [Enhancement - Conceptions of perfection / in German]
SES 2006, 5th Summerschool of Bioethics
August 6-18, HPH Center for applied ethics, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Anna Durnová - Coordination, Workshop chairing & invited talk: End-of-life: re-considering its complexities in postmodern societies.
ESOF2006 Open Science Forum
July 15-1, Munich, Germany

Barbara Prainsack - Panel convenor (with co-convenor Alexander Görsdorf, University of Bielefeld):
Life science governance: Who are the experts?

Biobank Governance in Comparative Perspective: Strategies – Ethics – Resistance
June 19, Vienna, Austria
Herbert Gottweis - paper presentation: Biobanks as a Challenge of Governance
Herbert Gottweis - paper presentation: Making Biobanks Happen: Comparing Experiences from Estonia and Japan [together with Robert Triendl (Center of Life Science and Society, Tokyo]
Barbara Prainsack - paper presentation: Research Populations: Biobanks in Israel
Society for Disability Studies 19th Annual Conference
June 14-17, Bethesda, Washington DC, USA
Ursula Naue - paper presentation: ”Is anybody there?” Fighting for a new and differently oriented political and public discourse on persons with disabilities in Austria.
“Religions of the World” College
June 15, Vienna, Austria
Barbara Prainsack - invited talk: `Es liegt in der Familie´ – Prä-maritales genetisches Testen in orthodoxen Lebenskontexten [ `It runs in the family´ - Premarital genetic testing in orthodox contexts.]
The Politics of Ethics and the Crisis of Goverment - Contested technologies, the language of Ethics , and the Tansformaton of Governance in Europe and the USA
May 25-26, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Herbert Gottweis - paper presentation: Performing Ethical Governance: A Scenographic Perspective
Seventh Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory
May 12-13, Colchester, UK
  Thomas Streitfellner - paper presentation: Valuable Swiss Cells: National Identity and Personal Embryos in a Global Economy of Jouissance
New Spaces of European Governance [International Workshop]
May 5-6, Vienna,Austria
Michaela Mayrhofer - paper presentation: Being a Member of the Club: The Transnational Self-Governance of Biobank Networks [The paper is a joint effort by Michaela Mayrhofer and Barbara Prainsack]
    Ursula Naue - paper presentation: Governing Disability: Power Relations, Bodies and Norms, and the Practices in the Field of Disability Policy
    Barbara Prainsack - panel chairperson: The Governance of Biosciences
ECPR Joint Session of Workshops
April 25-30, Nicosia, Cyprus
Barbara Prainsack - paper presentation [Panel: The Comparative Dynamics of Problem Framing: How Science and Power Speak to Each Other. Directors: Arco Timmermans and Christoffer Green-Pedersen): The “conflict of conflicts”: Human Reproductive Cloning and the Creation of New Citizens
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference of Science and Technology in Society,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
April 22-23, Washington DC, US
Anna Durnová - paper presentation : Politics of intimacy: governance of dying in postmodern societies.
International Conference Society&Genomics/Cesagen
April 20-21, Amsterdam, NL
Michaela Mayrhofer - paper presentation: Biobanks and New Identity Formations in the Genomic Era
Symposium “Stem Cells: From Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine to Policy”
April 19-20, Cambridge, UK
[organized by the East of England Stem Cell Network, the University of East Anglia, the University of Cambridge, and the Imperial College of London]
Barbara Prainsack - presentation of joint paper with Herbert Gottweis: Contrasting approaches to stem cell governance: the US, UK, Israel and Germany
University of Crete - Dept. of Sociology
April 11, Rhetymno, Crete, Greece
Herbert Gottweis - invited lecture: Rhetoric in Policy making
Council for European Studies, 15th International Conference
March 29-April 2, Chicago, USA
Ingrid Metzler - paper presentation: Saving the Authority of Nature: The Regulation of Embryoic Stemcell Research in Italy
“Penser sa proper mort”
March 31 – April 1, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, CA, USA.
[interdisciplinary conference organized by research group “soi et l’autre“]
    Anna Durnová - paper presentation: Spectacle de la mort en tant qu’outil argumentatif du débat politique. [Spectacle of death as an argumentative skill in the political discussions / in French]
Talk in the context of the programme "University meets Public":
March 30, 2006, Vienna, Austria
    Ursula Naue: Biopolitik heute: Zwischen Klonen und Euthanasie
[Biopolitics today:Between cloning and euthanasia / in German]
ESF Exploratory Workshop - Stem Cell Cultures: Exploring the social and cultural background of European debates about human embryonic stem cells
March 11-12, Nottingham, UK
Herbert Gottweis - paper presentation: Rhetoric in Stem Cell Govenance
School of Social Science at the University of Amsterdam - Research Master´s Program
February 22, Amsterdam, NL
Barbara Prainsack - invited lecture: Discourse analysis as a tool in qualitative research designs
Conference of the Francophone Association Ga
February 1–4, Podebrady, Czech Republic.
    Anna Durnová - paper presentation: Entre la nécessité et l’impossibilité de traduire: Traduction comme
une métaphore.
  “Designing Institutions for Democratic Governance.” [Workshop]
January 19-20, INLOGOV, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham,, UK
Herbert Gottweis - paper presentation: Emotions and Democractic Governance.
Department of Government, University of Essex - Seminar Series
January 17, Colchester, UK
Herbert Gottweis - paper presentation: Performing Regulation: Stem Cell Politics in Korea, the United Kingdom,
and Germany.
Powi 04 workshop “Methoden im Gespräch” [organized by the Austrian Political Science Association]
January 17, Vienna, Austria
Barbara Prainsack - invited lecture: Von Wortstämmen und Stammzellen [On word stems and stem cells]
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