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 ()
28 May: Professor Charles Stafford, Department of Anthropology, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Anthropological and macroeconomic perspectives on learning & economy in Taiwan ()
11 June: Professor Martina Merz, University of Luzern
Facts Revealed and Packaged: Image Travels in Nanoscience ()
Mini Symposia in Summer Term 2008
Travelling 'Facts' in Biotechnology
Wednesday 14 May, 3:00 - 5:30 pm
See !
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 ()
Bio-Security: When 'Facts' Should Not Travel?
Wednesday 18 June, 3:00 - 5:30 pm
See !
Dr Nick Wright, University of Nottingham
Biosecurity and the UK Poultry Industry (
Dr Brian Rappert, University of Exeter
Getting Facts to Travel by Making them Secret; Or Concealment as a Strategy for Revelation ()
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, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Information costs and financial market integration in 14th to 16th century Northern Europe? ()
23 January 2008
Dr Jim Tomlinson, Department of History, University of Dundee
Re-inventing the "moral economy" in post-war Britain ()
6 February 2008
Dr Sabina Leonelli, Economic History Department, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Labels, Vehicles and Packages: Making Facts Travel in Model Organism Biology ()
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 ()
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 ()
Prof Mary Morgan, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and University of Amsterdam
On a Mission: Mutable Mobiles and The Fact/Fiction Relation ()
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