Upcoming and recent events listed at the top
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The BEC Seminars 2021

These will take place between September and December 2020. For a full list please see:
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

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​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/

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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

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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

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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. 

Photographs taken by Niki Vermeulen during the panel at ISH. Many thanks to Niki for permission to use them.