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Researching expectations
in medicine, technology and
science - social theory and methodology
Sponsored by the Wellcome
Trust
King's Manor - York
18th/19th July 2005
Agenda: Mon 18th (12.15)
- Tue 19th (14.30)
Monday 18th
12.15 - 13.00 Arrival and lunch at the
King's Manor
http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/kmanor/
13.00 - 13.30 Opening introduction and
welcome: Theory and method in the
sociology of futures - Nik Brown
13.30 - 15.00 Session 1: Future Times - temporal theory and the sociological
framing of future orientation (Chair: Lena Eriksson)
Barbara Adam - Futures in the Making:
Perspectives and Methodological Dilemmas
Andrew Webster - Discussant
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee, tea and cake
15.30 - 17.00 Session 2: Hopes, Hypes and Subjectivities - embodying and
disembodying bioscience expectations (Chair: Harro van Lente)
Carlos Novas - Embodying hope, hope
embodied: PXE International and the creation of "the next generation
of patient advocacy"
Nik Brown, Alison Kraft, Paul Martin
- Banking futurity: capitalizing cord blood indemnity
19.00 - 19.30 Drinks reception at the
Queen's Hotel
20.00 Dinner - Melton's Restaurant
Tuesday 19th
9.00 - 10.30 Coffee and Session 3: Futures
Past - sociologies of utopianism
and dystopianism (Chair: Kornelia Konrad)
Lene Koch - Eugenic promises - approaching
a historical case of techno-scientific expectations
Lisa Garforth - No expectations -
utopia without a future
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee, tea and cake
11.30 - 12.45 Session 4: Mediating Futures - mass media and public consumption
of bioscience futures (Chair: Conor Douglas)
Alan Petersen - News frames and the
politics of expectation: media reporting on neuroscience and biotechnology
Martin Bauer - Resistance and the
dynamics of expectations: observations on biotechnology 1973-2002
12.45 - 13.15 Final discussion (Chair: Nik Brown)
Concluding remarks - Steve Yearley
13.15 - 14.30 Lunch followed by optional
meetings (on future/continuing
collaborative work)
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