Forum on Science and Society - a seminar series
About the forum on science and society
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| Future seminars | |||
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
| Wed. 7 May, 2003 EMBL Large Operon at 17:00 h |
Ronald Plasterk, Netherlands Institute for Developmental
Biology Utrecht, The Netherlands |
"Communicating about science with the general
public" |
Background |
| Wed, 30 April, 2003 EMBL Large Operon at 16:00 h |
Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore,
PA USA |
"The New Revolution in Developmental Biology:
Expansion and Reconciliation" |
Background |
| Thu. 20 March, 2003 EMBL Small Operon |
Claude Debru, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris | Death and Immortality of the Cell: Speculations, Explanations, Old and New | Background |
| Tue. 21 January, 2003 EMBL Small Operon at 16:00 h |
Ute Deichmann, Institut für Genetik, Köln | From Pre-eminence to Decline in German Biological and Biochemical Research, 1900-1950. The impact of politics | Background |
| Past seminars | |||
| Mon. 09 December, 2002 rooms C2-09/C2-10 at the EBI/Sanger facilities in Hinxton, UK at 13:30 h |
Brian Wynne, Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and Chair of the Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University | 'From Public (Mis)Understanding of Science, to Scientific (Mis)Understanding of Publics? Uncertainty and ignorance in the genomic sciences' | Background
Biography |
| Tue. 21 May 2002 EMBL, Small Operon at 16:00 |
Rupert Sheldrake, indep. science writer | The extended mind: recent experimental evidence | Background Biography |
| Dec. 05, 2002 EMBL Operon at 16:00 |
Scott Gilbert Dept. Biology, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA |
Environment and development: Extending development outside the organism |
Background
Biography |
| Jan 23, 2002 EMBL Small Operon at 16.00 h |
Alain Prochiantz Head of Department of Biology, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris |
To be and not to be an animal | Background
Biography |
| Tue. 19 March 2002 EMBL, Operon at 16:00 (Green Seminar) |
Roald Hoffmann Cornell University Department of Chemistry |
One Culture, or the Commonalities and Differences between the Arts and the Sciences |
Background Biography |
| Thu 17 April 2002 EMBL Large Operon at 16:00 |
Herve THIS, Physico-chimiste I.N.R.A. Paris | Science and cooking : recent advances of Molecular Gastronomy (lecture with experiments) | Background |
| archive of events since 1998 | |||
| Nov 29, 2001 EMBL Operon at 16.00 h |
Daniel
Callahan Director of International Programs, The Hastings Center, New York, USA |
Biomedical research and health care costs: How much progress can we afford? | Biography |
| Nov 20, 2001 EMBL Operon at 15.00 h |
Philippe
Kourilsky Director General of the Pasteur Institut, Paris |
The precautionary principle: a fashionable concept or a mutation in society? | Background
Biography |
| Oct 18, 2001 CANCELLED |
Scott Gilbert Dept. Biology, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA |
Environment and development: Extending development outside the organism CANCELLED |
Background
Biography |
| July 6, 2001 EMBL Hamburg Outstation |
Halldór Stefánsson Science and Society Office, EMBL Heidelberg |
On public perceptions of biotechnology (and some attempts at influencing them) |
Background
Biography |
| Feb 16, 2001 | Steven Rose The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK |
Genetics, evolution and human nature: beyond selfish genery | Background
Biography |
| Oct 3, 2000 | Benno Müller-Hill Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne |
A critical assessment of science in Germany during the Third Reich: "Human genetics and race hygiene in Nazi Germany" | Background |
| Sept 20, 2000 | Jacques Dubochet Université de Lausanne |
Speaking about science with the public | Background
Reactions Interview |
| June 7, 2000 | Federico Mayor Zaragoza President, Fundacion Ramon Areces, Madrid, Spain |
Science, Power and People | Background
Interview |
| Related events at outstations | |||
| Jan 30, 2001 EBI Hinxton |
EBI Workshop: Human Genome Research - The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications |
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The EMBL Forum on Science and Society was launched in 1998 as an initiative among members of staff at the institute to promote awareness of the impact that work within the life sciences is having on society. The role of the Forum on Science & Society is to organize events and activities dealing with subjects and themes relevant to the ways in which recent developments within the life sciences in general, and within molecular biology in particular, are having a profound impact on people, their societies as well as their cultures. Speakers are invited to come to the EMBL to give public comprehensive lectures on topics of general interest. What we hope to accomplish with these seminars is to bring together all interested in the dynamic relationships that link the life sciences and society.
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