Critical Life Sciences - Conference

Critical Life Sciences
-Responsibilities, Reflections, and the Political under Conditions of ›Post-Truth‹

In the workshop we will focus on those approaches that aim at changes within the sciences. Specifically, we invite researchers to the workshop who aim with their work to improve their respective fields of science beyond the conventional paradigms, methods, routines of research and the existing models of critique in the respective disciplines (methodological critique, conceptual and category critique) and intervene for this purpose, in particular by relating their own work to concepts of reflection in the humanities and social sciences. Such relations operate under different terms such as "critique," "ethics," "responsibility," or also by means of concepts of justice theory such as "feminism," "post- or decolonial" thinking, as well as more general concepts such as "democratization" or "diversification" of science.

Speakers:

Dr. Malin Ah-King, Evolutionary Biology, Stockholm University, Associate Professor in Gender Studies

Dr. Isabelle Bartram, Molecular Biology, Member of the Independent Research Group SoSciBio: Human Diversity in the New Life Sciences, University of Freiburg

Prof. Deborah Bolnick, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, USA, anthropological geneticist and biological anthropologist

Dr. Hannah Fitsch, Sociologist, Science and Technology Studies with focus on neuroscience, Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, Technical University Berlin

Prof. Dr. Anelis Kaiser, University of Freiburg, Neuroscience

Dr. Philipp Kellmeyer, Neurologist, University Medical Center Freiburg, member of the Cluster of Excellence »BrainLinks-BrainTools«

Dr. Ulrike Klöppel, Psychologist, Historian, Institute for European Ethnology, HU Berlin

Prof. Dr. Veronika Lipphardt, University/University College of Freiburg, Science and Technology Studies, History of Science

Dr. Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Dr. Vanessa Lux, Psychology, Genetic Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum

Dr. Tino Plümecke, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Science, Member of the Independent Research Group SoSciBio: Human Diversity in the New Life Sciences, University of Freiburg

Dr. Laura Schnieder, Sociology, Medical Sociology, Member of the Independent Research Group SoSciBio: Human Diversity in the New Life Sciences, University of Freiburg

Dr. habil Sigrid Schmitz, Lecturer Gender and Science Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

Prof. Dr. Marianne Sommer, Cultural Studies, University of Luzern, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller, Science & Technology Policy, Technical University of Munich

Dr. Chiara Barbieri, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Peter Pfaffelhuber; Department of Mathematical Stochastics, University of Freiburg