Erika Szymanski gave an invited talk on ‘Redecorating discursive space for researching microbes across boundaries’, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies seminar series. Texas State University, 22nd November, 2024
Erika Szymanski gave an invited talk on ‘Crossing kingdoms: Responsible irresponsibility in interdisciplinary art-science-STS collaborations’, Genetic Engineering and Society Center seminar series. North Carolina State University (remotely), 22 October, 2024
Jane Calvert gave an invited talk on ‘A place for science and technology studies’, Keynote Lecture, STS North Summer School, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, 27-29th August 2024
Erika Szymanski presented ‘A more-than-human approach to keeping RRI weird’ on the Joint annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for Studies of Science and Technology (EASST), Amsterdam, 16-19th July, 2024
Sophie Stone and Robert Smith presented ‘Contaminating conferences: creating spaces for responsible research and innovation through collaborative ethnography’ on the Joint annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for Studies of Science and Technology (EASST), Amsterdam, 16-19th July, 2024
Koichi Mikami presented ‘Some elements of a biology of translation: utilization of the microbe and the knowledge of its PET-degrading enzymes’ on the Joint annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for Studies of Science and Technology (EASST), Amsterdam, 16-19th July, 2024
Cookie Egret presented ‘Controlled flailing: Reducing harm in STS methods’ on the Joint annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for Studies of Science and Technology (EASST), Amsterdam, 18th July, 2024
Jane Calvert gave an invited talk on ‘Engineering Biology: re-inventing the wheel’, Nuffield Council on Bioethics Workshop on the Ethics of Engineering Biology, London, 5th June 2024
Jane Calvert gave an invited talk on ‘Making interventions’ at Symposium on Exploring the Intersection of Art and Medical Humanities, University of Manchester, 20th-21st June 2024
Jane Calvert gave an invited talk on ‘A place for science and technology studies’ Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (online), 30th April 2024
Jane Calvert gave an invited talk on ‘From studies of to studies with’, Understanding Life in a Changing Planet: 20+2 Years of Egenis, The Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, University of Exeter, 17th-19th April 2024
Jane Calvert gave an invited talk on ‘Control, contingency and collaboration in synthetic biology’, Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology Seminar Series, University College London, 8th April 2024
Jane Calvert gave an invited talk on ‘Control, contingency and collaboration in synthetic biology’, Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology Seminar Series, University College London, 8th April 2024
Erika Szymanski gave an invited talk on ‘Indirect human engineering: Response-abilities in synthetic genomics’, Alternative Approaches to Science? Responding to the call to be open and responsible. Keio University, Tokyo, 7th March 2024
Cookie Egret presented ‘The peony mystery school is open’, at Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, Honolulu, 7th- 11th November 2023
Erika Szymanski presented ‘Playing in the mud’, at Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, Honolulu, 7th- 11th November 2023
Koichi Mikami presented ‘Living in the Plastic World: The discovery of plastic-eating microbe and its interpretations’, at Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, Honolulu, 7th- 11th November 2023
Tomohiro Inokuchi presented ‘Engineered But Native? Techniques of Genomics and Human-Non-human Relationships in Microbiological Production’, at Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, Honolulu, 7th- 11th November 2023
Sophie Stone and Robert Smith presented ‘What comes out in the wash? Making collaborative waves at a synthetic biology conference’, at Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, Honolulu and online, 7th- 11th November 2023
Yuki Sugawara presented ‘The global aspiration and local expectations: different framings of genome synthesis research’, at Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, Honolulu, 7th- 11th November 2023
Robert Smith and Jane Calvert gave an invited talk on ‘Conferences as Sites of Governance. Or, Haunted by Dreams of a Tuscan Castle‘ at Engineering Life: Legacies of Asilomar, Rice University, Houston, USA, May 2023.
Koichi Mikami and Yuki Sugawara presented a poster on ‘Taking long-term policy visions seriously: the challenge for synthetic genomics in Japan‘ at Synthetic Biology for Future Health 2023 conference, Cambridge, 13-15th March 2023.
Robert Smith gave an invited talk ‘Future Organisms: Synthetic genomics and responsible innovation in the UK, USA and Japan‘ at the Institute for System Genomics Nano Seminar, New York, USA, October 2022.
Yuki Sugawara presented ‘Pre-history of Japanese Genome Synthesis Research: At the Intersection of Research Tradition and Science and Technology Policy‘ at Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies annual meeting (in Japanese) Tokyo, 2nd-4th Oct 2022
Tomohiro Inokuchi presented ‘Perspectives of Organisms in Bottom-up Synthetic Biology: the case of genome editing/synthesis research in Japan‘ at Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies annual meeting (in Japanese) Tokyo, 2nd-4th Oct 2022
Koichi Mikami presented ‘“Dark Matter” in Biology: The expectation behind the Metaphor‘ at Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies annual meeting (in Japanese) Tokyo, 2nd-4th Oct 2022
Jane Calvert gave an invited talk at the University of Vienna STS Department ‘On not being a bioethicist: normativity, otherwising and synthetic biology’, Vienna, Austria, 9th June 2022.
Robert Smith gave an invited talk ‘Urgency, scarcity and abundance in European funding cultures‘ at the Responsible Research and Innovation in/under urgency workshop, Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece, June 2022.
Jane Calvert gave an invited talk ‘Towards a collaborative sensorium’ Sensory Ecologies: Symposium on the artist Anicka Yi’s exhibition Metaspore, Gallery Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 28th April 2022.
Erika Szymanski gave an invited talk “Making space for responsible research and innovation.” at the International Workshop on Molecular Cybernetics: Toward Chemical AI. Tokyo (remote), 14-15 March, 2022.
Yuki Sugawara and Koichi Mikami presented ‘Making Genome? The development of Genome Synthesis Research and its relationship to Social Scientific Research‘ at Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies annual meeting (Online, in Japanese) Tokyo, 5th December 2021
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