This workshop took place in Exeter in December 2005.
The project deals with the agricultural, technical, juridical, medical, and scientific practices in which the knowledge of heredity was materially entrenched and in which it gradually unfolded its effects in successive periods.
A second one-day-workshop took place in Berlin on March 30th, 2006.
We suggested to continue our discussion with the following two main issues: 1. Reproduction in the century of the gene. 2. Sex/gender (and maybe race) in the century of the gene.
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, March 1-4, 2007.
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin was inviting scholars from various fields to discuss historical, cultural, social and philosophical issues of cloning and stem cell research.
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, March 28-29, 2008.
The purpose of this workshop was to bring together historians of plant-breeding in order to identify common interests and facilitate co-operation. We therefore asked participants to present their on-going research projects rather than results.
The rise of genomics and the many transformations it has stimulated, not only in biomedicine, but also in the organization of research and production of data, is certainly one of the most significant events of late twentieth century biology. History, however, seems to be lagging behind...
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 13-15 January 2009.
This workshop aims to investigate mutation as a relatively unexplored phenomenon of interest in the history of biology.
For the last 140 years, the formula nature/nurture (Na-Nu) has captured a very basic split in the causal structure we assign to the constitution of the human. The divide determines explanatory strategies in scientific and non-scientific arenas. We capture what human beings (as individuals and as groups) are like by seeing ...
The National University of Mexico (UNAM), the Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG), and El Colegio Nacional (México) was hosting an international conference celebrating Charles Darwin´s bicentenary of birth and 150 years of the publication of the Origins of Species. The program included ...