Upcoming and recent events listed at the top
The BEC Seminars 2022-2023
If you would like to attend one, or all, of the seminars, please email Janella Baxter: [email protected]
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John Bickle (Philosophy) Thursday, November 3rd 10 am CST/5pm CET "'Innovations in engineering': Philosophical impacts of some new research tools in molecular and cellular cognition"
Dan Liu (History) Tuesday, December 6th 10am CST/5pm CET "The 'Artificial Cell' vs. Biological Engeineering: How Far Back in History Should We Go?"
Janella Baxter (Philosophy) Thursday, January 26th 10am CST/5pm CET "In Search of the Chemical Constraints of Life"
Renan Leonel (STS) Thursday, February 9th 10 am CST/5pm CET "Unframing the living? Molecular Systems Engineering and the disambiguation of Biology"
Alan Love (Philosophy) Thursday, February 16 10am CST/5pm CET "Not bottom-up but middle-out: the necessity of mesoscale experimentation."
Mathias Grote (History) Tuesday, March 7th 9am CST/17 CET "Gaia's Undergarment." The rise of a microbial biology and its posthumanist philosophy, 1970-1980s"
Sophie Stone (STS) Thursday, March 30th 9am CST/3pm BST/4pm CET "Placing the human in mammalian synthetic biology"
Karen Kastenhofer & niki Vermeulen (STS) Tuesday, April 11, 9am CST/16h CET "The Impact of Technoscientific Hype Cycles on Epistemic Communities: Short Term, Middle Term, Long Term"
Robin Wolfe Scheffler (History) Tuesday, April 25th 10am CST/5pm CET "Urbanizing Biotechnology"
Caterina Schürch (History) Thursday, April 20th 10am CST/5pm CET "Testing engineering concepts as analytical tools for 18th century 'plant physiologists'"
This tool can help you convert the various time zones to your own local time: www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
John Bickle (Philosophy) Thursday, November 3rd 10 am CST/5pm CET "'Innovations in engineering': Philosophical impacts of some new research tools in molecular and cellular cognition"
Dan Liu (History) Tuesday, December 6th 10am CST/5pm CET "The 'Artificial Cell' vs. Biological Engeineering: How Far Back in History Should We Go?"
Janella Baxter (Philosophy) Thursday, January 26th 10am CST/5pm CET "In Search of the Chemical Constraints of Life"
Renan Leonel (STS) Thursday, February 9th 10 am CST/5pm CET "Unframing the living? Molecular Systems Engineering and the disambiguation of Biology"
Alan Love (Philosophy) Thursday, February 16 10am CST/5pm CET "Not bottom-up but middle-out: the necessity of mesoscale experimentation."
Mathias Grote (History) Tuesday, March 7th 9am CST/17 CET "Gaia's Undergarment." The rise of a microbial biology and its posthumanist philosophy, 1970-1980s"
Sophie Stone (STS) Thursday, March 30th 9am CST/3pm BST/4pm CET "Placing the human in mammalian synthetic biology"
Karen Kastenhofer & niki Vermeulen (STS) Tuesday, April 11, 9am CST/16h CET "The Impact of Technoscientific Hype Cycles on Epistemic Communities: Short Term, Middle Term, Long Term"
Robin Wolfe Scheffler (History) Tuesday, April 25th 10am CST/5pm CET "Urbanizing Biotechnology"
Caterina Schürch (History) Thursday, April 20th 10am CST/5pm CET "Testing engineering concepts as analytical tools for 18th century 'plant physiologists'"
The BEC Seminars 2021
These will take place between September and December 2020. For a full list please see:
BEC Seminars 2021
BEC Seminars 2021
The BEC Seminars 2020
These will take place between September and December 2020. For a full list please see:
BEC Seminars 2020
BEC Seminars 2020
27/5/2020
Dominic Berry to give public talk:
'Understanding Biological Engineering through genre: a historical study of New Scientist'
For full details of this talk, which will take place in London on the 26th of Feburary, please follow this link:
https://londonpus.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/london-pus-goes-online/
https://londonpus.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/london-pus-goes-online/
CANCELLED - in line with the UCU industrial strike action
26/2/2020
Dominic Berry to give public talk:
'Understanding Biological Engineering through genre: a historical study of New Scientist'
For full details of this talk, which will take place in London on the 26th of Feburary, please follow this link:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/PBS/Events
http://www.lse.ac.uk/PBS/Events
28/1/2020
Robin Wolfe Scheffler to give public talk:
'Genetown: The Urbanization of the Boston Area Biotechnology Industry'
For full details of this talk, which will take place in Boston, Massachusetts on the 28th of January, please use this link: https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=3101
Welcome!
This network has as many origins as it does members. Nevertheless, the decision to form the BEC followed the 2019 meeting of ISHPSSB hosted in Oslo. At this meeting an interdisciplinary panel on biological engineering from historical, philosophical and social scientific perspectives was organised by Janella Baxter, Rob Smith, and Dominic Berry, chaired by Lisa Onaga (photographed below). While interest in intersections of biology and engineering in each of these three disciplines remains small, collectively we become more than the sum of our parts. The BEC is intended to build such opportunities for critical thinking together.
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Photographs taken by Niki Vermeulen during the panel at ISH. Many thanks to Niki for permission to use them.