Programme Sept 2021 – Jun 2022
Term 3 (May – June 2022)
- Mon 25th Apr – Benjamin Smart, University of Exeter
- Mon 16th May – Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter
- Mon 30th May – Ric Sims, University of Exeter
- Mon 13th June – Paola Castaño, University of Exeter
Term 2 (January – March 2022)
- Mon 17th Jan – Rose Trappes, University of Exeter
- Mon 31st Jan – Giovanna Colombetti, University of Exeter
- Mon 14th Feb – Ariane Hanemaayer, Brandon University
- Mon 28th Feb – Ozlem Yilmaz, University of Exeter
- Mon 14th Mar – Denise Hossom, UC Davis
- Mon 28th Mar – Hugh Williamson, University of Exeter
Term 1 (October – December 2021)
- Monday 4th Oct – Tyler Brunet, University of Exeter
- Monday 18th Oct – Mitchell Distin, University of Valencia
- Monday 1st Nov – Elis Jones, University of Exeter
- Monday 15th Nov – Andra Meneganzin, University of Padova
- Monday 29th Nov – Quentin Dufour, Paris MinesTech
Programme for 2020-21
The Egenis Research Exchange (ERE) meets every fortnight to discuss developing work by scholars and students at Egenis, the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, these sessions are currently being held digitally.
Discussions focus on matters of interest concerning the history, philosophy, and sociology of the life sciences, broadly conceived, and including the cognitive and biomedical domains. We aim to bring together scholars and students, who share in these interests, to showcase and develop their own work in a friendly environment.
Sessions are usually held on Monday every two weeks, from 2-3pm. They are often followed by an Egenis seminar at 3:30pm.
Attendance and participation is open to all. Those wishing to attend, to submit work to be discussed, or with any other questions, should contact Elis Jones (erj205@exeter.ac.uk) or Sabina Leonelli (s.leonelli@exeter.ac.uk).
Term 3 (May – June 2021)
- Mon 10th May – Sabina Leonelli and John Dupre, University of Exeter
- Mon 24th May – Brian Rappert, University of Exeter
- Mon 7th June – Astrid Schrader, University of Exeter
Term 2 (January – March 2021)
- Mon 18th Jan – Andra Meneganzin, University of Padova
- Mon 1st Feb – Arely Cruz-Santiago, University of Exeter
- Mon 15th Feb – Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, University of Exeter
- Mon 1st Mar – Andrew Jones, University of Exeter
Term 1 (October – December 2020)
- Monday 5th Oct – Brian Rappert University of Exeter
- Monday 19th Oct – Julien Dugnoille, University of Exeter
- Monday 2nd Nov – Lauren Holt, University of Cambridge
- Monday 16th Nov – Sabina Leonelli and Hugh Williamson, University of Exeter
- Monday 30th Nov – Aimee Middlemiss, University of Exeter
- Monday 7th Dec – Ozlem Yilmaz, University of Exeter
If you wish to present work at the research exchange, contact Elis Jones (erj205@exeter.ac.uk) or Sabina Leonelli (s.leonelli@exeter.ac.uk).
PROGRAMME FOR 2019-20
Autumn Term (October – December 2019)
30th September – John Torday, “The Singularity of Nature”
14th October – Andrew Pickering, “In Our Place”
16th October – Sue Lovell, “‘I Am, (Therefore and with Difficulty) I Think’: an Enactive Reading of Sabina Berman’s Autistic Narrator”
28th October – Sabina Leonelli and Hugh Williamson, “What’s in a Name? Process-Sensitive Naming and the Shifting Semantics of Plant (Data) Science”
11th November – Antoine Vuille, “To Follow an Emotion”
9th December – Gail Davies and Rich Gorman, “The Animal Research Nexus: A new approach to the connections between science, health, and animal welfare”
Spring Term (January – March 2020)
13th January – Cameron Neylon, “Arenas of Productive Conflict: Universities, peer review, violence and knowledge”
20th January – Caitlin Wylie, “Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Specimen”
3rd February – Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, “Subversive Bodies: Life, death, Sovereignty and DNA in contemporary Mexico”
17th February – Ric Sims, “Chapter 2: Mechanisms and mutual manipulation: throwing the cognitive baby out with the bathwater”
19th February – Sophie Bitter, “Arguing against Monogenism: Strategies in polygenist argumentation against the unity of humankind”
6th March – Benjamin Smart, “CHAPTER THREE – Biological Theory and Peter Godfrey-Smith: An Epistemological Analysis and Evaluation”
16th March – Cancelled
Summer Term (April – June 2020)
27th April – Jack Griffiths, “Bioethics, the Ontology of Life, and the Hermeneutics of Biology”
11th May – Giovanna Colombetti, “Emoting the situated mind: A taxonomy of affective material scaffolds”
8th June – Elis Jones, “Distinguishing regeneration from degradation in coral: the role of value”
PROGRAMME FOR 2018-2019
Autumn semester
1st October – Dook Shepherd, “Of Windows & Worlds: Foundational Concepts & Their Roles in the study of Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Cognition”
15th October – Kirsten Walsh, “Vegetative and Mechanical Processes in Newton’s Chymistry”
29th October – Tim Lenton, “Extending the Domain of Freedom, or Why Gaia is so Hard to Understand”
12th November – David Hutchinson & Adrian Currie, “Non-trivial Quantum Biology”
15th November – Ciprian Jeler, “Two Kinds of Drift”
3rd December – Danielle Rhianna Lemieux, “[Presently Untitled: Chapter draft of PhD Thesis]”
Spring semester
28th January – Delphine Jacobs, “The Journey Towards a Diagnostic Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Interview Study of Parents Experiences”
11th February – Chiara Ambrosio, “Feyerabend on Art and Science”
25th February – Sophie Gerber, “An Herbiary of Plant Individuality”
11th March – Niccolò Tempini & Sabina Leonelli, “Get the Balance Right: Negotiating Trust in Dada between Actionability and Speculation”
25th March – Joel Krueger & Tom Roberts, “Loneliness and the Goods of Friendship”
Summer semester
20th May – Sophie Veigl, “Scientific Pluralism, Science and the Scientists”
3rd June – Helen Curry, “Chapter 6: Genetic Vulnerability”
17th June – Sam Wilkinson, [cancelled]
PROGRAMME FOR 2017-2018
Autumn term
9th October – John Dupré, “The biosocial genome?” & “Sex-linked behavior: Evolution, stability, and variability’
23rd October – Çağlar Karaca, “Order, Disorder, and Self-Organization”
13th November – Katharine Tyler, “Blogging Descent: Genetic Ancestry Testing, Whiteness and the Limits of Anti-racism”
20th November – Eder Zavala & Giovanna Colombetti, “Moving beyond “brain-based” accounts of affectivity”
27th November – Stephan Guttinger, “From practice to process: Making process thought great again”
11th December – Ric Sims, “Four embeddings and a failure: lessons in demarcating extended cognitive systems”
Spring term
29th January – Daniel Nicholson, “Is the Cell Really a Machine?”
19th February – Petter Hellström, “‘A Figure Like That of a Family Tree’. Augustin Augier and the Botanical Tree”
26th February – Ginny Russell [cancelled]
5th March – Jacob Habinek [cancelled]
12th March – Gemma Anderson [cancelled]
26th March – Angela Cassidy, “Pest Control and Ecology”
Summer term
4th June – Antonios Basoukos, “Unreal Genes”
11th June – Mark Canciani, “Altruism: History justified by theory justified by history”
18th June – Nicolò Valentini, “From odors to smells: The olfactory system as a perceptual interface”
PROGRAMME FOR 2016-2017
Autumn term
10th October – Nils Güttler, “Deceleration: Biogeography, Snails and Industrial Landscapes of Belonging Before WW1”
17th October – Stefano Canali, “Integration Data in EXPOsOMICS”
31st October – Sabina Leonelli, “Time-Scales of Data Use: On the Life Cycles, Ontology and Understanding of Biological Data”
14th November – Adam Toon, “Epistemology as Fiction”
5th December – Astrid Schräder, “Time, Affect, and Microbial Suicide”
Spring term
16th January – Gregor Halfmann, “Sampling as Material Integration and Material Continuity. The Creation of Samples in the CPR Survey”
20th January – Mark Canciani, “An Organisational Approach to Eusociality and Superorganisms: Are Eusocial Insect Traits Higher-Level Colony Functions?”
13th February – Niccolo Tempini & Sabina Leonelli, “Concealment and Discovery: The Role of Information Security in Biomedical Data Journeys”
27th February – Davide Serpico, “The Quantitative Genetic View: A Critical Evaluation”
Summer term
24th April – Jack Griffiths, “Living Well and Producing Well: Diagnosing and Overcoming the Confusion of Means and Ends”
8th May – Daniel Nicholson & John Dupré, “Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology”
22nd May – William Bechtel, “Using the Hierarchy of Biological Ontologies to Identify Mechanisms in Flat Networks”
5th June – Thomas Bonnin, “Representing the Past”
PROGRAMME FOR 2015-2016
Autumn term
19th October – Paul Brassley, “‘Living in a Sea of Information’: Knowledge Networks in UK Agriculture, 1940-85”
2nd November – Sara Weaver, “Bringing Feminism and Evolutionary Science Together: Two Approaches”
9th November – Miguel López Paleta, “Gallus Gallus genome”
16th November – Jessey Wright, “On the meta-analysis of Neuroimaging Data”
7th December – William Goodwin, “Volatile Spirits: Scientists and Society in Gulliver’s Third Voyage”
Spring term
11th January – Gail Davies, “‘Increasing in size and diverging in character’: Licensing practices and the global politics of laboratory animal research”
25th January – Stephan Güttinger, “Towards a process ontology for macromolecular biology”
8th February – Brian Rappert and Catelijne Coopmans, “Accords on the Mind”
29nd February – Lorenzo Beltrame, “‘Play it again, Sam’. Taking Polanyi seriously in understanding the social embeddedness of cord blood economies”
7th March – Flavia Fabris, “Canalization and Development: Towards a Process Account of Cryptic Genetic Variability”
21st March – Susan Kelly, “Recontacting in clinical practice: an investigation of the views of healthcare professionals and clinical genetic scientists in the United Kingdom”
Summer term
9th May – Giovanna Colombetti and Tom Roberts, “Affecting Perceptual Experience”
23rd May – Shane Glackin, “Rule-following and the Evolution of Public Language”
6th June – Jim Lowe, Gail Davies and Sabina Leonelli, “Experimental protocols and the translational imperative in pharmacology”
27th June – Ginny Russell and Steven Kapp, “‘The outliers should not be normalised’: A thematic analysis of autistic adults’ understanding of Neurodiversity”
PROGRAMME FOR 2014-2015
Autumn term
13th October – John Dupré, “A Process Ontology for Biology”
27th October – Brian Rappert, “Sensing absence: How to see what is not there”
11th November – Paul Griffiths, Arnaud Pocheville, and Karola Stotz, “Measuring causal specificity”
19th November – Sabina Leonelli and Nadine Levin, “Negotiating Openness in Practice: Open Science and the Valuation of Scientific Research Outputs”
24th November – Jennifer Cuffe, “The time of adverse drug reaction databases in Canada”
1st December – James Lowe, “Ontology and Practice – Taking Variation Seriously”
Spring term
21st January – Dan Nicholson, “Neither Logical Empiricism nor Vitalism, but Organicism: What the Philosophy of Biology Was” (co-authored with Richard Gawne)
4th February – Ilana Löwy, ‘Fleck the public health expert’
18th February – Angelique Richardson – ‘Victorian Monism: Mind and Body in Thomas Hardy’
4th March – Thibault Racovski, “On ambiguities in the definition of evolutionary novelties and their consequences for the debate on the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.”
Summer term
29th April – Tarquin Holmes, “Standing in for Nature: A History & Pre-History of the Role of Wild Types in Classical Genetics.”
13th May – Niccolo Tempini, “Till Data Do Us Part. Sociality and the proliferation of objects in social media-based discovery.”
10th June – Adam Toon, “Tools, concepts and incommensurability”
PROGRAMME FOR 2013-14
Autumn term
7th October – Giovanna Colombetti, “Scaffoldings of the affective mind”
21st October – Paul Griffiths, “Crick information”
30th October – Jo Donaghy, “Temporal decomposition: A strategy for building mathematical models of complex metabolic systems”
18th November – Nadine Levin, “What’s Being Translated in Translational Research? Making and Making Sense of Data Between the Laboratory and the Clinic”
2nd December – Samantha Hurn, “Land of Beasts and Dragons: Anthropological Myth-Making in Rural Wales”
Spring term
13th January – Tarquin Holmes, “What was the Contribution of ‘Science’ to 18th Century Livestock Improvements and who did the Contributing?”
20th January – Ann-Sophie Barwich, “A Fine Nose for Timeliness: The Discovery of The Olfactory Receptors and Its Role within the Life of an Emerging Experimental System”
27th January – Edward Skidelsky, “What can we learn from happiness surveys?”
10th February – Nick Binney, “Nosology, Ontology and Promiscuous Realism”
24th February – Rani Lill Anjum, “It’s Not All in Your Genes: The Dispositional Nature of Causal Mechanisms in Biology”
10th March – Sebastien Dutreuil, “Natural selection, Niche Construction and the Gaïa Hypothesis”
Summer term
12th May – Sabina Leonelli, “Implications for Philosophy: Producing Knowledge by Situating Data”
28th May – Staffan Müller-Wille, “Revisiting the Origin of Genetics”
9th June – James Lowe, “Normal development before there were standards”
PROGRAMME FOR 2012-2013
Autumn term
1st October – Staffan Müller-Wille, “Lists as Research Technologies”
15th October – Sabina Leonelli, “Integrating Data to Acquire Knowledge: Three Modes of Integration in Plant Science”
29th October – Ann-Sophie Barwich, “The Role of Materiality in the Diversity of Classification Practices: An Epistemic History of Odour Materials in the 19th and 20th Century”
19th November – Jo Donaghy
10th December – Rachel Ankeny, “Situated Models”.
Spring term
21st January – Sara Green
4th February – Stephen Hinchliffe “Differentiated Circuits: The Ecologies of Knowing and Securing Life”
25th February – Giovanna Colombetti
4th March – James Lowe
18th March – Ann Kelly
25th March – Pierre-Olivier Méthot
29th April – Adam Toon
Summer Term
20th May – Paul Brassley
3rd June – Nicholas Binney
17th June – Samantha Hurn
PROGRAMME FOR 2011-2012
16/1: Sabina Leonelli on the impact of classification systems such as bio-ontologies on experimental biology.
30/1: Berris Charnley on (the history of) intellectual property in plant science (with visitor: Prof Christophe Bonneuil from Paris).
13/2: John Dupre on the ways in which recent findings in microbiology and metagenomics challenge existing ideas about life, evolution and reproduction.
27/2: Michael Morrison on whether or not regenerative medicine (RM) could be considered a scientific discipline in its own right.
12/3: Louise Bezuidenhout
19/3: (11:30am-12.30pm) William Wimsatt – discussion based on his paper ‘On building reliable pictures with unreliable
data: An evolutionary and developmental coda for the new systems biology’
EASTER BREAK
30/4: Tarquin Holmes on ‘The Introduction of Wild-Type into Transmission Genetics: Displacement, Reification, Challenges, Endurance’
14/5: Jim Lowe on ‘Normal Development’
28/5: Chris Manias on the presentation of “Peking Man” in Britain in the 1920s & 30s.
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