Workshop "Data – Difference – Diversity. Technologies of Differentiation in the Life Sciences"
Workshop "Data – Difference – Diversity. Technologies of Differentiation in the Life Sciences" to be held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 24-26 November 2011
Organizers: Susanne Bauer, MPIWG; Christine Hanke, KHM Köln; Sabine Höhler, KTH Stockholm
Nov 24
14.30-15.00 Welcome (Veronika Lipphardt)
Introduction (Susanne Bauer, Christine Hanke, Sabine Höhler)
15.00-18.00 Data – Difference – Diversity: Perspectives
- Michelle Murphy: Thick Data and the Politics of Abduction
- Brit Ross Winthereik: Differentiating Infrastructure
- Christine Hanke: Measurement, Data Analysis and Visualisation –Remarks on Medial Performativity
- Adrian Mackenzie / Ruth McNally: Protean Proteins: Methods in Pursuit of Identity and Difference
Nov 25
9.30-10.00 Reflections on Day 1 (Staffan Müller-Wille)
10.00-11.20 Data Routines I: Stocks and Flows
- Bruno Strasser: The Data Deluge: Reinventing Authorship in the Data-Driven Sciences
- Martina Merz: Search channels, background isolations and statistical
significance: Ways of detecting the Higgs particle in LHC data
11.40- 13.00 Data Routines II: Infrastructures and Models
- Sabina Leonelli: Respect for Epistemic Diversity: A Guiding Principle for Biological Cyberinfrastructures
- Erika Mansnerus: Chains of Inference in Infectious Disease Transmission Models: What Happens to Diversity?
14.30-15.50 Tracing/Producing Difference
- Veronika Lipphardt: Taste Sensitivity to Phenylthiocarbamid Around the
Globe: Collecting Data on a New Genetic Marker in the mid-20th century
- Soraya de Chadarevian: Tracing Differences: Human Chromosome Research, 1960s to 1970s
16.10-17.30 Economies of Diversity
- Thomas Lemke: Suspect Families: DNA Kinship Testing and its Implications for the Concept of Family
- Sabine Höhler: Biodiversification: Service Ecology’s Economy
Nov 26
10.00-10.40 Reflections on Day 2 (Jörg Niewöhner, Etienne Benson)
10.40-12.30 Effects and Genealogies
- Gabriele Gramelsberger: New Adjustments between Theory and Empirical Data
- Orit Halpern: Genealogies of the Interface: From Representing
Information to Data Visualization in Cybernetic Thought
14.00-15.20 Hybrid Spaces and Temporal Folds
- Felix Keller: Biosocial Classifications and the Emergence and
Visibility of “New Societies”
- Amade M’charek: Making Time: On Race and Relations in Cows and Humans
15.20-16.00 Data – Difference – Diversity: Conclusions and Perspectives
Chair: Christine Hanke
Panel: Staffan Müller-Wille, Michelle Murphy, Susanne Bauer
Discussion
Participation in this workshop is open, but space is limited. If you
wish to attend please contact Birgitta von Mallinckrodt
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