3 month sabbatical in Berlin - Humboldt University

Posted on 5 October 2012

Dr Nik Brown is spending autumn 2012 on sabbatical in Berlin with an attachment to the Centre for Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt University

His 3-month position is being used to outline a book on the themes of community, immunity and immunitisation. The book brings theoretical and conceptual literatures together from political philosophy and STS and applies them to a range of case studies in which Nik has had in-depth empirical involvement over the last decade or so. These include his work on blood economies, stem cell innovation, transpecies transplantation, vaccines, vaccination and pandemics.