EYE OF THE STORM - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSY

EYE OF THE STORM - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSY, 19 / 20 June 2009, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1, UK. EYE OF THE STORM aims to explore a range of controversies, from esoteric arguments between physicists over the structure of the universe, to disputes about the causes of species decline and climate change, and highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells and the distribution of genetically modified organisms. When heated debates around the challenge of climate change have shown how abstruse uncertainties within a scientific community can be amplified and distorted to challenge the whole notion of human-caused greenhouse warming, EYE OF THE STORM sets out to examine the relationship between scientific uncertainty and public controversies around science.

RECLAIMING THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Nobel symposium: RECLAIMING THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Onsdagen den 20 maj 2009, kl.14.30-18 (inkl. paus)
Lokal: Börssalen, Källargränd 4, 2 tr., Gamla Stan, Stockholm
Föredragshållare: Stephen Bronner, Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature and German Studies, Rutgers University, NJ
Titel: RECLAIMING THE ENLIGHTENMENT - THEN AND NOW
Föredragshållare: Barbara Taylor, Professor of Modern History, University of East London
Titel: ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE USES OF WOMAN
Föredragshållare: Robert Bernasconi, Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis
Titel: DISINGENIOUS DISENLIGHTENMENT
Moderator: Marie-Christine Skuncke, Professor i Litteraturvetenskap, Uppsala universitet
The aim of this symposium is to encourage a critical discussion of the legacy of the Enlightenment from the perspectives of ethnicity, gender, religion and politics. -- Stephen Bronners intresseområde är politisk teori. Han har bl.a. skrivit böckerna: Moments of decision: Political history and the crises of radicalism (1991); Of critical theory and its theorists (1994); Reclaiming the enlightenment: Toward a politics of radical engagement (2004). Barbara Taylors forskningsinriktning är "upplysningens kvinnor" och hur den sociala och ekonomiska utvecklingen över tid verkat ur ett genusperspektiv. Hon har bl.a. skrivit och/eller redigerat: Eve and the new Jerusalem: Socialism and feminism in the 19th century (1983, 1993); Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination (2003); Women, gender and enlightenment (2005). Robert Bernasconi forskar om rasbegreppet och dess historia. Han har skrivit och/eller redigerat i urval: The idea of race (2000); Concepts of race in the eighteenth century (2001); Race and racism in continental philosophy (2003). Marie-Christine Skunckes forskningsintresse är Svenskt 1700-tal i europeiskt perspektiv, fursteuppfostran, politisk retorik och mediehistoria. Hon har under det nya millenniet redigerat i urval: Riksdag, kaffehus och predikstol: Frihetstidens politiska kultur 1766-1772 (2003); Media and Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (2005). -- Föranmälan till alt. 08-534 818 18